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Thomas Cassidy · 01-06-2003, 02:19 PM

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Originally posted by abe smith
Because folks who a'n't too-bright love the *mysterious* because any fool can assert it w/o having to KNOW anything factual, nor to STUDY to learn anything.
Believing in the inexplicable/miraculous makes the ignorant equal with the informed; and whee! "OI'm as smot as YEW are!."

It would be nice to believe that everyone who disagrees with me, or has a world view different from mine, does so because he is intellectually or academically deficient, but in my 6 decades of life I have found that quite often such is not the case.

pz · 01-06-2003, 02:24 PM

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Originally posted by Thomas Cassidy
It would be nice to believe that everyone who disagrees with me, or has a world view different from mine, does so because he is intellectually or academically deficient, but in my 6 decades of life I have found that quite often such is not the case.

Have you considered the possibility that that is because smarter people tend to have a different world view than yours?

abe smith · 01-08-2003, 06:02 AM

You have generalized from my opinion /post, Thomas Cassidy; and I object to that generalization of yours. I did NOT fasten my opinion to EVERYONE who disagrees w/me; I was offering an opinion in response to the OP :Why is creationism rife in the USA? I apologize to the members for not having narrowed my response to "It is my opinion that some creationists *whom I have known personally* were ignorant = uninformed about what we may label "scientific facts/knowledge" ; and that those same persons, acquaintances of mine, have indeed vouchsafed THEIR opinion as FACT that their belief in the miraculous & inexplicable overrides any alleged "facts" that I might offer/have offered."
Please be a little more scrupulous; and certainly I will try also to be more scrupulous at the cost of prating-on too long..... Thank you.

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01-08-2003, 06:02 AM	#223
abe smith Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: springfield, MA. USA Posts: 2,482	You have generalized from my opinion /post, Thomas Cassidy; and I object to that generalization of yours. I did NOT fasten my opinion to EVERYONE who disagrees w/me; I was offering an opinion in response to the OP :Why is creationism rife in the USA? I apologize to the members for not having narrowed my response to "It is my opinion that some creationists whom I have known personally were ignorant = uninformed about what we may label "scientific facts/knowledge" ; and that those same persons, acquaintances of mine, have indeed vouchsafed THEIR opinion as FACT that their belief in the miraculous & inexplicable overrides any alleged "facts" that I might offer/have offered." Please be a little more scrupulous; and certainly I will try also to be more scrupulous at the cost of prating-on too long..... Thank you.

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