(April 29, 2012 at 11:28 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Why is it so important for some people to believe being an atheist makes you smarter than believers? Penis envy, perhaps.
I'm not sure why penises are involved, except with the religious fixation on penises.
Education however has a stronger correlation with non-belief, and the reason it is important has nothing to do with sexual organs, but it is important that education remains accessible to as many people as possible.
If you're the sort who believes there is a war of minds between atheists and theists, the atheist battleground is in promoting education, whereas the religious battleground is to censor and restrict education. This is far more prominent in fundamentalist ideologies rather than the more conciliatory moderate religious.
The point of this study clearly has nothing to do with maths, but your approach to solving problems, whether you take an instinctual leap to an answer, or whether you take a more methodical approach.
The question posed is a poor one for a variety of reasons, most of all that it is really a reading comprehensive test than anything else.
Self-authenticating private evidence is useless, because it is indistinguishable from the illusion of it. ― Kel, Kelosophy Blog
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
