[ExI] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

Thu Dec 10 18:00:08 UTC 2015

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> John Clark thinks it is dumb to be religious.
>

Yes.

> 
> That got me to thinking of all the really really smart people in history
> who were religious - or said they were for reason of power, money, etc.For
> one, Ben Franklin,
>

I have some Ben Franklin quotes:

"
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
"

"
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
"

"
Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
"

"
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
"

> 
> clearly one of the greatest geniuses ever, denied that he was an atheist.
> He was a Deist
>

For reasons I don't understand many people are perfectly willing to
abandon the idea of God but not the word G-O-D, so they say "God"  means a
vague ambiguous grey blob and insist they believe in that. Well I think
that
vague ambiguous grey blob
s exist too, but I don't believe in God.

> 
> Then there is Isaac Newton.
>

Newton died 300 years ago and back then almost everybody believed in God.
And by the way, Newton may have been the greatest scientist who ever lived
but he was a very unpleasant man.

> > 
> There is no conflict between being IQ smart, creative smart, and being
> religious.
>
A

 article in the July 23 1998 issue of the Journal Nature
 is
entitled "Leading scientists still reject God"
 and
reports on the religious beliefs of top scientists. The astounding thing
wasn't that 93% didn't believe in God, the astounding thing was that 7% did.

  John K Clark
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