30 Aug '14 19:10>3 edits
Originally posted by FreakyKBHI think it is more accurate to say that your interpretation of what I said is more than a little bit off target. Indeed such great minds you speak of like Newton, Euler, Riemann, Gauss, and so on ... Reveal Hidden Content
That's a naive assumption.
Some of the greatest minds/seekers in the scientific world have been/are theists--- not a single one of whom resort to magic, all of whom are very comfortable with the known unknowns... and with the knowledge that even if their striving never produces the solution, the One who created it will.
yeah my examples were all mathematicians ... feel free to substitute physicist, philosophers, and so on on ...
are the ones who, in spite of their belief that there exists a god (the popular notion of Christian "G"od no less), they still made marvellous contributions to the fields of mathematics and physics which enabled us as a collective to ask questions that were further reaching than their predecessors. As such these of whom you speak would fall into the category of greater intellect that I mentioned in my initial entry into this thread. I say this in spite of the fact that they are theists (though it is debatable as to whether they would have the same theistic views had they instead lived in the times that we do now).
On the other hand, the lesser minds that I spoke of are those who are ill-equipped to conduct any type of serious inquiry; those who at the merest hint of intellectual difficulty cede victory to the thought smothering haze that has enveloped their brains; those who resign themselves to a comforting, yet demonstrably wrong, notion that it must all hang together by magic - somehow.
These lesser minds, often with a predilection towards bigotry and violence,Reveal Hidden Content
and peering beyond their velvet sophistries one sees there are examples of such on these boards
are happy to "know" that they know everything. Furthermore, that they know everything prevents any appreciation for the questions of others - "they blaspheme!", "they are spreading lies", "they are evil!!" Reveal Hidden Contentyes I'm aiming at the fundamentalists here
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