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.....in religion usually go down. So do you personally know any super smart super religious people?
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The closest person to this description I can think of is Ben Shapiro, but I never hear him actually talk about religion.
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Isaac Newton was religious.
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mortimerjames posted...

Isaac Newton was religious.

yeah but they didn't even have darwin back then.
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mortimerjames posted...

Isaac Newton was religious.

that was hundreds of years ago, even before darwin came up with his "theory"
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But Darwin was still religious too.
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mortimerjames posted...

But Darwin was still religious too.

no he really wasn't he said he was agnostic
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I didn't know he renounced
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mortimerjames posted...

I didn't know he renounced

very early in his life everybody then was religious so he was too, but in his 20's 30's he became less religious and after he published his book he officially said he was agnostic
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mortimerjames posted...

Isaac Newton was religious.

You personally know Isaac Newton?
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awesome999 posted...

mortimerjames posted...

Isaac Newton was religious.

You personally know Isaac Newton?

i've read that he was religious too, so this dude ain't wrong. But that was hundreds and hundreds of years ago even before darwin. Everybody back then was religious
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I don't think everyone was.
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i've read that before darwin's time almost everyone was or the % was extremely high
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I'm an attorney and an Irish Catholic. Before deciding that I actually wanted to make money and discovering that math is incredibly tedious to me, my aim was to become an Astrophysicist and Theoretical Cosmologist.

Granted, I wouldn't really call myself 'incredibly religious', and am mostly religious because... Irish. Religion to us is more about a close knit community that tries to live good lives that follow the teachings of the Church than it is about beliefs.

Also, for what it's worth, I view the bible as a collection of fables and tales given to us by... something, in an effort to guide us towards better lives. When they come to a head, science always trumps the bible.

Edit: Oh, and the single most intelligent man I've ever know, a former Physics professor of mine, was very religious. He too viewed the Bible as a guide, more than a literal chronicle of events. He passed away a few years ago, but he was absolutely brilliant and never missed church.
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omega cookie posted...

Also, for what it's worth, I view the bible as a collection of fables and tales given to us by... something, in an effort to guide us towards better lives. When they come to a head, science always trumps the bible.

Well this is about as barely religious as it can get
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Yes, I did undergrad at Baylor and knew a few. Not saying that there was a plethora, but there were a few, like one of my roommates during freshman year.

Oh yeah, and many of the professors since you're required to attend church if you're a professor at the University.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

omega cookie posted...

Also, for what it's worth, I view the bible as a collection of fables and tales given to us by... something, in an effort to guide us towards better lives. When they come to a head, science always trumps the bible.

Well this is about as barely religious as it can get

I'm not going to debate whether religious conviction requires a literal belief in the stories of the bible. What I have works for me.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

omega cookie posted...

Also, for what it's worth, I view the bible as a collection of fables and tales given to us by... something, in an effort to guide us towards better lives. When they come to a head, science always trumps the bible.

Well this is about as barely religious as it can get

I disagree. It views it as a set of lessons and not as a scientific textbook, which it isn't.
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I only met him once. We had a 10 hour delay on our flight to China. He was this big black dude from San Francisco. Former pastor and currently an economics teacher in Bangkok. Had some fascinating conversations with conversations with him.

It got even better when we met this guy who worked with the State Department who's job was to go into destabilised African countries and rework their economies. I just sat and listened to them speak because a lot of it was beyond my level of understanding.
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I don't personally know any incredibly religious people anymore but I do know plenty of religious people far more intelligent than myself.
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I know a lot of very intelligent people who are religious
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Yeah my great uncle is brilliant at math and physics, but got fired from the school he taught at for talking about God.
He's smart as hell in a lot of ways.
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One of the professors at my school is Catholic. He has degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge and does methods research (you have to be extra smart to do methods research).
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I don't know any super smart people.

And neither do you.
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