When one chooses a stance or takes a position don’t they always manage to find evidence to validate it?

Yes. Not all “evidence” is equal, though.

In ways, yes. No person should believe anything or come to conclusions without first attempting to validate their way of thinking through very careful analysis. It also hinges on what “evidence” is to the individual, because some people claim to have it when really – following a path of logic – they don’t.

I think people always can find someone else who agrees with them. I’m not sure I would say it always rises to the level of evidence.

I think people may like to back up their logic. If we search enough, we’ll find something to back it up.

People may try to present evidence but when that evidence just doesn’t hold up, and they can’t find anything stronger, then they tend to disappear.

Well, that is true if one chooses a position first. But many people look at an issue and read about both sides of the question, and then set their mind on what their preference is.

It’s like, one can always find a Bible verse to back up any position. So some people decide then go hunt through the Bible to find chapter and verse to support it. But most people don’t make up heir minds that way. But others read the Bible, and weigh the contradictions, and then decide.

It’s my experience that most people usually accept (and pass on) ideas they’ve read, been taught or heard repeatedly WITHOUT researching whether what they’ve read, heard or been taught has validity.

@jca I think people may like to back up their logic. If we search enough, we’ll find something to back it up.
Yes, something like that. If a person takes a position, maybe one on the fringe like climate change, or cell phone use causing brain cancer, even with no smoking gun, they will search high and low expecting to find validation to their belief, even if they have to bend what they find to make it fit what they believe. Somewhat like those people that go hunting for Big Foot, they will surely find evidence pointing to a large biped being or such traveling through a particular forest, even if no one else can see the evidence without trying to see it, like seeing a tree in front of you or a large rock.

@zenvelo It’s like, one can always find a Bible verse to back up any position. So some people decide then go hunt through the Bible to find chapter and verse to support it. But most people don’t make up heir minds that way. But others read the Bible, and weigh the contradictions, and then decide.
Taking the idea that you said you were Christian on another thread, you would know that is a poor example as you cannot use the same methods for faith as mere facts. Just because one might seek a verse to confirm the 1st first they read, it is not to overthrow the 1st verse or the 1st verse was seen as not being true. As a whole, the Bible has no contradictions, which only happen when you don’t take the whole story like saying man cannot survive under water. That is a true fact, but if you went further and completed the sentence as in ”man cannot survive under water, however, through the use of submarines he can survive great depths in the ocean.”