That one dang genius who believes?

[RJT]

Using some stats that we have (I have no problem changing these %, if someone has other suggested %s) we know that perhaps 90% of geniuses in the science category do not believe in any god.

To makes things easier for me to write, let say we take the 1000 top scientist in the world. And out of these top 1000 we have 900 who think there is no god. We then have 100 who think there is some type of god.

We then want to narrow the top 1000 down to the top 100. Let’s say the % stays the same ( I have no problem agreeing it might go to higher than 90% when we do this). So we now have 90 -no god and 10 god.

Let say we narrow it down to 10.The score is 9 no god -1 god.

For this exercise it doesn’t really matter if the % stay the same. I want to reduce it to the lowest number in the group that still leaves us with 1 god person.

So we now have 1 believer and x number of non believers.

Now we have a conversation.

I want to know what the heck this one believer thinks.

What if he is the “Einstein” of the group. Then what?

I also want to know the lowest number we can get to and still have a Christian in the group.

What if he is the “Einstein” of the group. Then what?

[Jim T]

You are essentially bringing up a logical fallacy - "Appeal to (Unqualified) Authority"

[Prevaricator]

and there's the implied premise that it is possible for a christian to also be a "genius."

[chezlaw]

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and there's the implied premise that it is possible for a christian to also be a "genius."

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Newton

[A_C_Slater]

So what.

Bobby Fischer supposedely has a higher IQ than Einstein did and he believes in all sorts of wacky and inane things.

[chezlaw]

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So what.

Bobby Fischer supposedely has a higher IQ than Einstein did and he believes in all sorts of wacky and inane things.

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Just responding to the suggestion that genius and christian were mutually exclusive.

Newton was both.


chez

[RJT]

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So what.

Bobby Fischer supposedely has a higher IQ than Einstein did and he believes in all sorts of wacky and inane things.

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Well, this kind of illustrates my question, then what?

[jester710]

Clearly, geniuses are superior to us regular folk in every way.

Provided you get to pick your geniuses, of course.

[RJT]

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Clearly, geniuses are superior to us regular folk in every way.

Provided you get to pick your geniuses, of course.

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Kind of like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s rich folk. To paraphrase: They are just like us, except they have more money.

[David Sklansky]

If Newton was alive now and was STILL a religious Christian, I would significantly alter my personal assessment about whether I thought Christianity is true.