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- chrissku, on 06/12/2008, -97/+1271No *****?
- elvenrunelord, on 06/12/2008, -65/+653I don't disbelieve in god. I just want nothing to do with organized religion or its drama queen crap
- Ph0biA, on 06/13/2008, -44/+567I'm Christian (hold off on the bury's for just a moment).
As a Christian, I see other christians using an argument consisting of 100% faith with 0% Logic. Luckily, I, like 1% of all Christians know when to shut up when and when I don't know what I'm talking about. Being Christian sucks sometimes because there are so many christians out there giving the rest of us a bad name; I like to consider it like Chris Rock talked about Rap.
He said "I love rap music, but I'm tired of defending it. It's hard to defend 'I got hos' on an intellectual level. It's hard to defend 'Move bitch, get out the way!'"
Much like Christ Rock, I'm tired of defending my beliefs when you've got sites like "Godhatesfags.com" and who knows what other extremist ***** that can be brought to the plate. These people are so closed minded that its nearly sickening. So I (On behalf of all logically thinking Christians), apologize for 95% of my religion being ***** retarded. - tim04, on 06/12/2008, -32/+392belief in God shouldn't be a popularity contest. I don't care if "50 Nobel Laureates" believe in God, or if thousands of intelligent scientists don't. It should be a personal decision rather than one of peer pressure. How strong can a "belief" possibly be if it's forced through external pressures. That's the biggest problem that I have with "organized religion".
- feliks2, on 06/13/2008, -2/+233I think in addition to being able to click on a thumbs up or a thumbs down when voting comments, we should be able to click on a question mark.
- somnambulator, on 06/12/2008, -52/+270"Dr Alistair McFadyen, senior lecturer in Christian theology at Leeds University, said the conclusion had "a slight tinge of Western cultural imperialism as well as an anti-religious sentiment"."
Of course he's going to say this, because it makes his career and life look like the bloody enormous waste of time that it was.
Oh... and it makes him look like a complete 'tard too. - inactive, on 06/13/2008, -11/+224before an all out flame war erupts, I just want to post a small piece of serenity that anyone can retreat to if need be:
̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡*̡͌l̡*̴̡ı̴̴̡ - meannate, on 06/13/2008, -59/+252I'm not ashamed to say I didn't even read this before digging it.
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -79/+259Intelligent people will make rational decisions based on empirical evidence. Religious people just accept what they're told or what they were brainwashed into as children and never question it, giving the church/jeebus virtual dictatorial powers over them and everything in their lives.
I know which way of life I prefer. - FTWmovin2canada, on 06/13/2008, -2/+126I think this is more accurate (from the article): higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt institutions.
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -2/+100Hey, thanks. This kind of stuff will get you respect I think.
- Fordi, on 06/13/2008, -2/+96i...is that a unicode rancher?
- TwineHornet, on 06/12/2008, -38/+131I really hope this article doesn't actually surprise anyone.
- gordonj, on 06/12/2008, -12/+105A proof in point is reading the comments at the end of the article.
- elcow, on 06/13/2008, -1/+89How long have you been waiting to post that?
- TomTruelle, on 06/13/2008, -4/+92๏̯͡๏﴿
- dafunkmonster, on 06/13/2008, -5/+85I, as a human, apologize for 98% of my species being ***** retarded.
- twiztidsinz, on 06/13/2008, -8/+87Christ Rock died for our rapper's sins.
- rohan1234, on 06/13/2008, -2/+76Ironic that a "lecturer in Christian theology" is the one accusing someone else of "Western cultural imperialism".
- callinthelaw69, on 06/13/2008, -25/+93First words in my head too.
The smarter people get the less likely they are to believe in fairy tales. Imagine that! - lotsa1s, on 06/13/2008, -13/+77I'm sure Atheists can say the exact same about Digg users.
95% of Atheists I know aren't nearly as snobby, judgemental, fearful, and hateful as Digg-athiests.
Many of them are like the fundamentalist Christians of the athiest world, you can literally just replace a few of the words and they'll sound exactly like the most extreme and hateful of religious fanatics. - Dylson, on 06/13/2008, -4/+63ಠ_ಠ
- matude, on 06/13/2008, -0/+54Yep. Probably even more than that.
Haven't you noticed dumb people on the streets around you? - nova912, on 06/13/2008, -39/+92When anyone quotes the bible i'm reminded of a quote by david cross:
"the bible was written by people who were even dumber than the dumbest person alive today." - voodoosteve84, on 06/13/2008, -1/+50Non-intellectuals tell me all the time that they don't want to bother thinking about this or that. It is a burden to them while intellectuals enjoy a good brain work-out.
- bman85, on 06/13/2008, -21/+70I just figured this fact was common sense...
- Aharoni, on 06/12/2008, -40/+89I'm not a believing person myself, but I have a lot of admiration to people who do, follow some of the moderate rules of the religion to stay "in touch" with tradition and don't let it distract them from the modern world. Being religious isn't offensive... only when they start imposing their laws and traditions on others or become a burden for society because of their "belief" (I'm looking at you, Orthodox jews in Israel)
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -13/+61You don't have to have organized religion to believe in God.
- eir574, on 06/12/2008, -8/+54It sounds like 'intellectually elite' was a label assigned to people by the study. It wasn't self identification. If someone says that you're a member of the intellectual elite, it doesn't mean that you think you're smarter than other people. It means that someone else does.
- noheadhorseman, on 06/13/2008, -37/+81sir Isaac Newton Believed in god... as far as i can tell he was pretty smart, not everyone can invent calculus and create the foundation for modern physics.
- bluepass, on 06/13/2008, -1/+44No *****! Intelligent people question things.
- tidu, on 06/13/2008, -3/+46oh my god, i think... it.. is
- duggdowncatisad, on 06/13/2008, -34/+77Obvious result is obvious. In other news, intelligent people are less likely to play the lotto, smoke cigarettes, drive raised trucks, or vote for McCain.
- mustang460, on 06/13/2008, -10/+53hes right, you can make up your own
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -9/+51same goes for bigfoot
- inactive, on 06/13/2008, -0/+40actually i just go here and make them every once in a while :P
I dont honestly know if I made that one or got it from somewhere though but its in my collection.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscellaneous_symb ... - MiddleOfNowhere, on 06/13/2008, -1/+38Most followers of a religion have been conditioned by their parents and the society around them to accept a belief system, and many do not have the intellectual means to doubt this indoctrination.This is technically not "stupidity", but a combination of conditioning and lack of inherent or external mechanisms to get rid of this condition/brainwashing.
If you are born in India, there is an 80% chance you will grow up a hindu. If you are born in the US, you'll probably become a Christian of one flavor or another. And if you had been born in Scandinavia 1000 years ago, you would have strongly believed that the creation of the world began with the giant Ymir and the icy cow Audhumla, forefathers of Odin and company.
Are/were all these people stupid? No. But it takes intelligence and courage to question what everyone else around you seems to accept as an absolute truth. - tokabowla, on 06/13/2008, -8/+45It's not "cause and effect" though. He didn't exactly live in a time when Atheism was a viable option.
- feoren, on 06/13/2008, -1/+38It's funny that things like "facts" and "reality" have an anti-religious sentiment.
- Scaryclouds, on 06/13/2008, -6/+42So much for making decisions based upon empirical evidence.
- dtfinch, on 06/13/2008, -2/+36ಲ_ಲ
- Clark3934, on 06/13/2008, -1/+34No *****?
- comrademikhail, on 06/13/2008, -2/+35I'm Atheist, but I'm not one of those "you're stupid for believing in God" people. I'm a firm believer that people should be allowed to believe in what they want, without other people hating them for it. That's why all these religious wars make me sick. And I'm glad to see some Christians understand this concept too. I mean, I always knew there were Christians that weren't completely close minded, but unfortunately, like you stated, they're the minority in a lot of cases.
Thank you, for showing me hope in the human race. That there are people that actually get it. - seventoes, on 06/13/2008, -2/+33DEFINITIVE PROOF! You saw it here first on digg folks!!
Seriously though.
Or it could be because perfect replication of a cell is impossible, and the one little thing that is changed during replication prevents the cell from replicating too many times.
I'm not good at verbalizing my thoughts, but there is definatly a glaring hole in your logic. - Fordi, on 06/13/2008, -10/+40Popularity contest, my ass. This is an illustration of progress, far as I'm concerned.
- d0onut, on 06/13/2008, -4/+34Quoting the Bible isn't going to convert any atheists.
- sg1fan, on 06/13/2008, -6/+36There are sooooo many reasons your post is just wrong and that you are a massive hypocrite that I can't even begin
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