Religious People Understand the World Less

Originally posted by divegeester
I have no bias against women; I married one.

Marrying a woman is not evidence that you are not biased against them.

Originally posted by divegeester
The whole article is bullshlt; why don't you lighten up a bit.

Is it? Your evidence, argument for this?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Marrying a woman is not evidence that you are not biased against them.

Of course it isn't; it's called humour 😉

Originally posted by twhitehead
Is it? Your evidence, argument for this?

My argument that it's bullshlt is my opinion.
Bullshlt is a technical term by the way.

All this deeper understanding of the world from these secular fellas is just overwhelming.

Can someone explain why the world's first double helix section of DNA replicated itself ?

Originally posted by sonship
All this deeper understanding of the world from these secular fellas is just overwhelming.

Can someone explain why the world's first double helix section of DNA replicated itself ?

Chemistry.
I could point you to some courses on DNA replication if you want.

Originally posted by twhitehead
Chemistry.
I could point you to some courses on DNA replication if you want.

Can someone explain why the world's first double helix section of DNA replicated itself ?

The answer is, of course, over there.

Originally posted by sonship

Can someone explain why the world's first double helix section of DNA replicated itself ?

The answer is, of course, over there.

Did you expect me to give you a three year university course in biochemistry in one post?

DNA replicated because of chemistry. That is a fact. If you want to understand how, you need to learn chemistry.

Replication doesn't require double helix.

I'm not convinced that religious people understand the world less. They are a whole bunch of stupid, but so are the rest of us.

Originally posted by apathist
Replication doesn't require double helix.

I'm not convinced that religious people understand the world less. They are a whole bunch of stupid, but so are the rest of us.

LOL - so true.

Originally posted by Nicksten
LOL - so true.

That's a new one, on your profile, the big bang came out of god's mouth. Whatever floats your boat I guess. Science at least can't prove you wrong, for a few decades or a century maybe anyway. Give you a plus for creativity anyway🙂 is that your idea or did you just parrot it from some other source? And how do you know it was not from some other orifice of your god?

Originally posted by apathist
I'm not convinced that religious people understand the world less. They are a whole bunch of stupid, but so are the rest of us.

It is a statistical claim, not a blanket claim.
I think there is good evidence that religiosity correlates inversely to science education - therefore it is highly likely that religious people do, on average, understand the world less.

In this forum, the correlation are very strong and evident. I suspect that this forum does not reflect general numbers.

Originally posted by sonhouse
That's a new one, on your profile, the big bang came out of god's mouth. Whatever floats your boat I guess. Science at least can't prove you wrong, for a few decades or a century maybe anyway. Give you a plus for creativity anyway🙂 is that your idea or did you just parrot it from some other source? And how do you know it was not from some other orifice of your god?

Let me quote you correctly - my profile reads "The big bang was the sound that came out of God's mouth" - I surely didn't invent that "saying", but I have heard many say it before me which makes me that parrot then. The rest of my profile is purely me 😉

The fact is, in which I saw huge humor was that apathist said we're all a bunch of stupid - that meant stupid whether or not you believed in God, no God, FSM, evolution etc.

Originally posted by Nicksten
Let me quote you correctly - my profile reads "The big bang was the sound that came out of God's mouth" - I surely didn't invent that "saying", but I have heard many say it before me which makes me that parrot then. The rest of my profile is purely me 😉

The fact is, in which I saw huge humor was that apathist said we're all a bunch of stupid - that meant stupid whether or not you believed in God, no God, FSM, evolution etc.

In the great scheme of things, we (human beings) really don't know very much.

The irony is, when we do finally have more of the answers and shaken off our collective stupidity, we'll all probably be wiped out by a rogue asteroid.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
In the great scheme of things, we (human beings) really don't know very much.

The irony is, when we do finally have more of the answers and shaken off our collective stupidity, we'll all probably be wiped out by a rogue asteroid.

rogue or aimed....