[Darryl_P]

To answer your question in a slightly restated way, I think belief based on a genius consensus would not be genuine belief. Rather, it would just be a human-to-human suck-up exercise much like a frog looking into a flashlight. His definition of genius already shows this by requiring a person to both suck up to the system and get sucked up to in representation of the system -- something that has little to do with one's reasoning abilities and even less to do with one's understanding of God.

I don't think God sets standards for valid and invalid ways to believe. As long as the belief is genuine, ie. really and truly that, deep in your heart and soul, then He will take care of you.

Sklansky makes a fundamental error in assuming this question is a rational exercise. To make the leap of faith you need to (among other things) create axioms. Logical thought OTOH involves arriving at various truths starting from a given set of axioms.

God and the devil are battling it out for Sklansky's soul and he is blissfully unaware. At one point it will become clear who is the victor but for now he'll just keep running 'round and 'round in his little logical gerbil wheel, creating threads that entertain and annoy us all the while.