Re: Sklansky has it backwards
My favorite point in any argument is when someone misses a point so badly that the only appropriate response is "you retard, .."
As for academia and it's non-belief front, there are two sides to that. A large portion of that comes from the actual student body, who aren't necessarily all that intelligent. They're just hopping on a college bandwagon, much like socialism and zen budhism. Non-belief does exist among many of the educators, but they don't carry it with that same sense of self-righteousness as the insecure students.
On the other side, as far as a belief in God, or a higher-being, a decent amount of astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, philosophers, etc., come to believe in the existence of such a being. It doesn't mean they worship it, or think it is in charge of his or her destiny. Instead, since their studies have brought them to the boundaries of the universe and have unravelled many mysteries, and uncovered many new ones, they at least consider the possibility that something (or someone) started all of this. Something put these laws in place. i.e., they believe the existence of a greater being COULD be a logical explanation to WHY relativity (or gravity, etc. etc.) exist.
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