[ExI] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[William Flynn Wallace]

​I'd like to think they're just liars because I'd much rather a liar have
his finger on the nuclear trigger than a fool, but I don't think they're
liars, I think they're sincere and I think they're fools.

  John K Clark

Do you think that there is a correlation between the outlandishness of an
idea and the sincerity with which it is held?

Put another way:  if the ideas were conventional we might suspect that a PR
firm or political consultants vetted the ideas.

bill w

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:41 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:46 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>> > Donald Trump: graduated from Wharton school of business, became a
>> self-made multi-billionaire.
>
>
> Self Made?
> ​ Trump inherited at least 40
>  million
> ​ from his daddy in 1974. Since 1974 ​the S&P 500 has gone up 74 fold, if
> he had put his inheritance into a simple S&P index fund and reinvested the
> dividends today it would be worth 3.4 billion. Today after all of Trump's
> wheeling and dealing and all his art of the deal Bloomberg says Trump is
> worth 2.9 billion and Forbs says it's 4.5 billion; he would have done about
> as well with a invest it and forget it strategy.
>
>
>> ​> ​
>> Ted Cruz: graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School magna cum laude,
>> 1995 world debating champion.
>
>
> ​Ted Cruz is ignorant but he's not stupid and that's why of all the
> presidential candidates he scares me the most.  Craig Mazin was
> Cruz's roommate and this is what he has to say about his fellow Princeton
> alumni:
>
> ​
>
> *"Ted Cruz was my roommate. I did not like him at all in college​.​ And
> you know, I want to be clear, because Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human
> being. I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his
> personality is so awful that 99 per cent of why I hate him is just his
> personality.​ ​​If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only
> one per cent less.I would rather have anybody else be the president of the
> United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.​"​*
>
>
>> ​> ​
>> Ben Carson: brain surgeon.
>
>
> ​Ben Carson is a skilled mechanic with good manual dexterity who believes
> that Joseph of the Bible built the Egyptian Pyramids to store grain and the
> big bang theory
> ​ is
>  ​
> part of the “fairy tales” pushed by “high-faluting scientists” as a story
> of creation
> ​" but Carson does  ​"
> believe in the six-day creation
> ​"​
> ​ and thinks "
> the
> ​ ​
> organs of the body completely refute evolution" and that
> ​ ​
> Charles Darwin
> ​ ​
> got the inspiration for his book
> ​from Satan
> .
>
>
>>
>> ​> ​
>> John that business with creationism is the political sales pitch; we
>> don’t know what these guys believe.
>
>
> ​I'd like to think they're just liars because I'd much rather a liar have
> his finger on the nuclear trigger than a fool, but I don't think they're
> liars, I think they're sincere and I think they're fools.
>
>   John K Clark
>
>
>
>
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