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=> the seeming paradox of the smart/stupid

the seeming paradox of the smart/stupid
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, June 27 2016, 14:46:00 (UTC)
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...especially where religion is concerned...the religious love to point to people almost all consider intelligent and point out, with glee, that so and so is also religious...like intelligence is SO compatible with horseshit.

But that's nothing...go back in time and have a conversation with Aristotle, widely considered the most brilliant man of his age...talk to him a bit and soon you'll see that among the wise and sensible things he says will come a perfectly ridiculous "observation" he's made...and it won't be long before you realize that this great man never tested anything, never thought of or cared to conduct a proper experiment...turns out this wise man took the entire universe on faith, on his observations alone, on what "made sense" to him...to his admittedly great mind...but the majority of it turns out now, in a more scientific age, to be about as sensible as an Evangelical's spouting off on science OR religion.

We have the same sort of "intelligent" people today who can believe in nonsense because they believe in BELIEVING in religious nonsense, even if they are astro-physicists.



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