Good morning
This will just be a short piece on something that I again noted last night: the comparison of being a Christian vs. being intelligent.
My wife and I were watching this series called 'Bones' when the protagonist questioned a man on his beliefs and then referred to her having a hard time seeing how he can believe when he looks like such an intelligent man. Obviously this is simply a television series, but I have encountered this notion among other serious atheists before. Richard Dawkins, for one, thinks that Christians should be ridiculed for their beliefs, which to me shows that he thinks that Christians (among other believers) are lesser than others on Earth. I mention him since he is one of the biggest proponents of atheism.
Now, to me, it seems to be a false argument on Dr. Dawkins's side, because I can't possible imagine how an intelligent person like him can believe that all Christians fall into an "unintelligent" category. I'm not writing solely about Dr. Dawkins today, though. The point that I want to make is that I think the argument has no merit whatsoever, and I truly hope that all of you can see that. If we only take Christians and Atheists, surely all of us have to be able to see that there are intelligent people on both sides. For example, Peter Singer (atheist) is intelligent and so is Francis Collins (Christian).
Intelligence (and in my mind scientific reasoning) has nothing to do with whether one is a Christian or not. We can have them on both sides.
Hermann
This will just be a short piece on something that I again noted last night: the comparison of being a Christian vs. being intelligent.
My wife and I were watching this series called 'Bones' when the protagonist questioned a man on his beliefs and then referred to her having a hard time seeing how he can believe when he looks like such an intelligent man. Obviously this is simply a television series, but I have encountered this notion among other serious atheists before. Richard Dawkins, for one, thinks that Christians should be ridiculed for their beliefs, which to me shows that he thinks that Christians (among other believers) are lesser than others on Earth. I mention him since he is one of the biggest proponents of atheism.
Now, to me, it seems to be a false argument on Dr. Dawkins's side, because I can't possible imagine how an intelligent person like him can believe that all Christians fall into an "unintelligent" category. I'm not writing solely about Dr. Dawkins today, though. The point that I want to make is that I think the argument has no merit whatsoever, and I truly hope that all of you can see that. If we only take Christians and Atheists, surely all of us have to be able to see that there are intelligent people on both sides. For example, Peter Singer (atheist) is intelligent and so is Francis Collins (Christian).
Intelligence (and in my mind scientific reasoning) has nothing to do with whether one is a Christian or not. We can have them on both sides.
Hermann
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