But if you ask me just who is the more credulous, the more suggestible, the dopier, the more perfectly prepared to convey absurdity to an almost inconceivable pitch of personal enthusiasm – a well-trained Jesuit or a Ph.D. in quantum physics, I’ll go with the physicist every time. There is nothing these people won’t believe. No wonder used-car salesmen love them. Biologists are, of course, worse. Tell them that in the future Richard Dawkins is going to conduct a personal invasion of Hell in order to roust the creationists, and The Panda’s Thumb will at once start vibrating with ticket sales.
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Why are biologists worse than physicist?
Matter of fact, why is someone with a degree more gullible than someone who has merely been 'trained' to be Christian?
@Kuno
Yes, in fact I have meet some time ago a Jesuit with a PhD biology, we had a nice chat about the movie gattaca.
Wonder how David Berlinski would react if he knew that the father of the Big Bang theory was also a priest.
"No wonder used-car salesmen love them."
No, used car salesmen love old people and fundies. There is nothing these people won’t believe. Old peoples frontal lobes are fading, and fundies are so brainwashed they can't tell fact from fiction.
So being a scientist and believing in things which can be tested makes you more credulous and dopy than believing in talking snakes, global floods, and dead people coming back to life and flying up into the air?
Yes, but people who believe that an unseen, incorporeal, unknowable, all-powerful entity who is everywhere and only talks to the very religious or the insane is the actual creator of the universe are just peachy keen, right? Except I can remember lots of religious maniacs who went on killing sprees over the minor trivialities of their belief system, but those quantum physicists and biologists? Not so much.
As has been said so many times: science doesn't give a shit what you believe.
There is nothing these people won’t believe.
What about Jesus? I thought they didn't believe in Jesus. And weren't scientists supposed to be extremely closed-minded? Now the problem is that they're too open-minded? I guess TECHNICALLY scientists will believe anything. But that anything has to have solid evidence behind it. If the universe is determined to tell us that it started as an infinitesimal dot (as unimaginable as it may be) then we can't really argue with it.
@pyro
> No wonder used-car salesmen love them.
[citation needed]. Let's hear it from a used-car salesman.
Does a person that used to be a car salesman count? I found that skeptics and those that did their research were among the worst people to sell to. They often could find problems (even without mechanical experience) and get good deals because it was difficult to persuade them. The worst were mechanics. My favorite customers? Spoiled teenagers with wealthy parents. The parents often let the kids pick whatever they wanted and they were less likely to be able too haggle. Given the choice between a suburban teenager and a scientist I'll take the teenager, look for anyone else, and if there's nobody else I'll go to the scientist.
Admittedly, there ARE some Ph.D. quantum physicists who are rather gullible.
Case in point: Targ and Puthoff. Two laser physicists who were completely taken in by Uri Geller's dog-and-pony show, and believed he had real psychic powers.
No wonder used-car salesmen love them.
Listen, bubbie. I was a used car salesman. You know who the most credulous, gullible people were? Religious folks. I hung a cross on the wall of my cubicle (even though I was and remain a militant atheist), and when they looked at it and smiled I knew I had them hooked . Upsale, here we come! Convince 'em you're a good, God-fearing man and they'll buy anything you're selling.
Used-car salesmen love physicists? I had no idea.
It doesn't matter what Richard Dawkins is doing or is going to do in the future, stupid. The science of biology doesn't depend on his behavior. That's what you dolts can't manage to understand, isn't it? It's the evidence that matters, not who's showing it.
All creationists are in Hell?
What about a well-trained Jesuit with a doctorate in quantum physics?
Methinks that this individual doesn't have the strongest grasp of what the Jesuit order actually is or does. They're an order with a strong focus on education, and they have quite a few scientists.
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