VANITY AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES –“[Physical] scientists are ov

VANITY AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

–“[Physical] scientists are overwhelmingly atheist,” Dutton said. “This is predicted by their high IQ, which allows you to rise above emotion and see through the fallacious, emotional arguments.” Arguments about God are all emotional arguments, he added.”–

I would argue, successfully I think; first, that intelligence forces a discount on the value and utility of the opinions of others.

And second, that learning the contrarian displacement of mythos with reason and science grants one significant status signals in life.

Unfortunately, it appears to be endemic, that very smart people rarely grasp that the dependence of the lesser intelligent, upon the opinions of others, is necessary for their ability to act by their own discretion.

Nor do they grasp that these lesser minds cannot tell the difference between one set of snake oil salesmen and another.

Nor do they grasp the pedagogical necessity of teaching the young through experiential analogy first – myth, and instrumental necessity second – science. And for many the instrumental – both logical and physical – is simply either unnecessary or irrelevant.

For the average person, reliance upon the traditional and ‘time tested’ is simply THE MOST SCIENTIFIC AND RATIONAL COURSE OF ACTION available to them.

I’m not uncomfortable stating that I discount the value of the opinions of others, and that I happily revel in the status signals that come with demonstrating one’s intelligence

But I never make the erroneous assumption that myths and traditions and even superstitions, while ARATIONAL are irrational. They are not.

And until each individual can experience an alternative that is superior to his myths and traditions, and the opinions of others, it is irrational to ask them to value, agree with, and adopt, what they cannot understand.

Because if they cannot grasp it, then we are asking them to act upon FAITH in us. Rather than faith in the accumulated wisdom of centuries.

It is a peculiar vanity of the intelligent to claim that they are the gods we should listen to.

Myself included.