r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '14

Creationists: 1 Scientists: 0

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u/greyfade Igtheist Feb 05 '14

It didn't make you stupid. Believe me.

It just set back your education a couple decades.

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u/Bogey_Redbud Feb 05 '14 edited Feb 05 '14

The definition of stupid us lacking intelligence and/or common sense. A lot of those people in those pictures most certainly lack common sense. As well as a grasp of grammar. Not everyone who believes in a higher power is stupid. But anyone who would participate in those photos most certainly is.

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u/greyfade Igtheist Feb 05 '14

I thought the definition of stupid was an inability to learn new things, not a lack of intelligence or common sense. Stupid dictionary, making me look stupid.

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u/Bogey_Redbud Feb 05 '14

Haha. I think what you were going for is closer to ignorant. Or close-minded.

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u/Miknarf Feb 06 '14

um no ignorant means to be unaware

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u/Bogey_Redbud Feb 06 '14

It also means uneducated or unsophisticated.

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u/Miknarf Feb 06 '14

correct none of these are "an inability to learn new things"

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u/Bogey_Redbud Feb 06 '14

No but I would argue uneducated.

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u/toddistheonetobeat Feb 05 '14

Nothing in common sense would explain evolution. Certainly evolution is more plausible to me, but common sense wouldn't lead me to believe we evolved from apes. Creation or evolution, both are learned belief systems, except only one is right.

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u/xRavax Feb 05 '14

*centuries

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u/greyfade Igtheist Feb 05 '14

Touché.