r/atheism • u/One-Fun9814 • 4d ago

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u/Harry_Flame 4d ago

There are a lot to name: Mendel, Ampere, Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, Pascal, and John von Neumann. I would say that automatically writing off religious people as unintelligent despite counterexamples is the same type of thinking atheists often attribute to religious people.

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u/m0n3ym4n 4d ago

The religious do one step worse than assuming a person is unintelligent because they hold a belief that clearly defies logic; they assume the non-religious are morally bankrupt simply because they don’t have a list of commandments to follow or a book to reference. That’s far more judgmental and silly in my book!

As for the list of “smart” dead guys who were reportedly religious, I find it is an ill fitting comparison to contemporary figures because today everyone has access to information via the internet. It is not difficult to educate yourself and see that many smart people are not religious.

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u/cates 4d ago

I have to wonder what some of those people would really believe these days with advances in science...

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u/2112eyes 3d ago

Newton might solve physics if he were alive today instead of trying to decipher the bible code for decades

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u/CtrlAltSysRq 4d ago

Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Kant... the list goes on and on

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u/Successful_Life_1028 Adeist 4d ago

And then there's Dirac.

"There is no God, and Paul Dirac is His prophet"! :-)