The liberal mind versus the conservative mind - who knew?

[therising]

But it makes sense, people who are smarter tend to want to see proof of things, but isn't faith about believing in what you can't see?

Faith is fine. Faith is great. Personally, I have faith that God exists.

But, there are people who confuse their faith with fact. And, consequently, they think the earth is only 2,000 years old.

[Linda_D]

Faith is fine. Faith is great. Personally, I have faith that God exists.

But, there are people who confuse their faith with fact. And, consequently, they think the earth is only 2,000 years old.

I don't know that it's intelligence per se. For some, it's ignorance and/or anti-intellectualism. For others, it's more a need to have some authority to dictate right or wrong, good or bad, etc. For others it's a license to vent bigotry without guilt. Slave owners used the Bible to justify owning blacks just as "conservative Christians" today use it to justify their homophobia while wearing clothing of blended fabric and eating ham sandwiches.

[nogods]

I agree... but two of the smartest people i've ever met use there intellegence to PROVE a God exsists. One's a Rocket Scientist for NASA in CO and the other is a Physiologist for a massive university.

did they prove that there is just one god? if so, which one?

How did they prove there aren't 3 or 16 or 2,945,567.25 gods?

[FisherRd]

I don't mean it as an insult - but, I'm betting that, generally speaking, the higher the IQ, the less devout people are in their religious views. Simply because super-smart people are, most likely, the type of who won't believe anything that can't be scientifically proven.

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