Thinking outside the bot.

[RJT]

Let’s get back to Kbfc’s post regarding the military and David’s general view of the religious.

Isn’t there something to be said relative to science of those who have, I’ll use the word, imagination? (To those atheists who want to, you can take this word literally to amuse yourself. To the other atheists and to the believer, I think they understand how I mean it.)

I assume that without intuition, imagination, “thinking outside the box” we would be further than we are science wise. Do we agree?

So, in this context perhaps those of belief actually have an edge over the atheists.

To use the analogy of poker. If one plays like a bot, rather than has a bit of imagination isn’t he actually at the disadvantage?

I also think of the image of the absent-minded professor. The guy who has his head up his a.. (How common is this? I am not being rhetorical, I don’t know if it is an often seen trait or not.) Those who can’t see the forest for the trees. Are they being too limited in their thinking?

Does this scenario have any applicability to the general discussion?