(June 2, 2013 at 12:36 pm)little_monkey Wrote: An intelligent person can also be dumb in other areas of said expertise: point in case is Newton. He put physics on the map, but for a good part of his life, he practiced alchemy... besides, being an asshole with Robert Hooke.
No doubt. But, I wasn't going to canvas all relgious people as dumb. I agree that we're all dumb in lots of respects. I think it would make me appear to be quite dumb if I painted practicers of religion with such a broad brush. I don't know all of them, and certainly can't speak to their levels of individual expertise.
Another intersesting anecdote with respect to your post: Aristotle thought that the thinking mechanism was in his chest, and that whatever it was between his ears, was an organ that cooled blood! He seemed to be a pretty smart fella, and didn't even know what part of his body was producing the thoughts
