Why do Intelligent People still Believe in Religion? 1:On the Origin of Stupidity.

This video series is an attempt to explain to the scientific and skeptical minded as to why there are intelligent people who still believe in religion.
Source discussing Tasmania and fire:
"Guns, germs and steel" Jarrod Diamond.

Also featuring video from The darwin finches
www.youtube.com/thedarwinfinches

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Religion
• atheism
• science
• psychology
• neurology
• skeptic
• wheel
• fire
• stone
• tools
• mental
• construct
• ray
• comfort

[BrandonBlaze904]

why do intelligent people still believe in religion its because they want to. got problem?

[anubis2814]

@BrandonBlaze904 So long as you aren't pushing it on the rest of us especially through political means then no. This series is designed to explain the psychological and sociological mechanisms that make some people choose or stay in a religion.  It is made to better understand the mind, and hopefully for atheists to be a bit more reasonable or at least understanding when talking to the religious.

[anubis2814]

@longasora By that logic who created god? Because according to you life cannot come from emergent natural properties and laws of the universe like natural selection of random mutations, self-replicating chemical bonding, or zero point singularities, then GOD had to be created by someone greater, who was created by someone great to the point of infinity. If you are going to make a rule you can't give special pleading for your special emotional idea. Or you could look at the hard science.

[ReligiousFiction]

I already LOVE this series. Trying to understand people, rather than belittle or discount them, is the key to a better functioning world.

[shakilmujeeb]

Some very intelligent people still pretend to believe a religion just so they can make use of the benefits of the community

[anubis2814]

@MacOO7 Things beyond the scope if its ability to study we make no claims and therefore need no faith. Things like an afterlife or a spirit has been pretty much shot down at every level with neurology and the need for a creator has become massively redundant with all of the other evidence. Beyond that I am fascinated but I don't have to have faith because it doesn't effect me in any way.

[MacOO7]

@anubis2814 You seem to have missed my point entirely. I'm just saying science, which I find fascinating, does not have all the answers especially when it's dealing with things beyond the scope of it's ability to study. That's why it's by faith you understand that which is spiritual in nature.

[DarkBallYE]

@jewelzqueen Fully agreed :) I'm still amazed at how many people make a bigger deal about someone else's beliefs than how to contribute to earth. Let's sit down, forgive each other, and think about how our scientists, religious or not, can make the world a better place!

I'll say this, being an intelligent Noahide: Religion, or even lack of, is not what's holding the world back. It's those from either side who would rather invest their time in bickering than learning or producing.

[anubis2814]

@jewelzqueen I am not going to reach the true believers, evidence will not phase them. I made this for atheists to be more understanding and for those who are doubting to have the courage to leave their religion if they choose to. I have had many doubting religious people in my old situation who were able to get out of their life of depression thanks to my videos. Also the religious vote and try to take away our rights everyday. Also I am educating how the brain works which enriches us all

[jewelzqueen]

@anubis2814 So in conclusion it is a never-ending debate of either side.I made peace with that and decided to go on my own path of truth.Don't obesses over what others are doing in their life.It won't get you anywhere.People believe in all kinds of things that are not visibly there.I don't care and neither should you anubis.

[jewelzqueen]

@anubis2814 I agree with you but that won't change anything.People are attached to certain beliefs/religions.Even if facts are presented it will be ignored.I don't believe in anything unless i see it with my own eyes in research scientifically speaking.I have seen some good points on your end and the end of religious people.

[anubis2814]

@jewelzqueen Why do I care? Besides the fact that many of my fellow atheists call religious stupid for believing in irrational things, I also was raised to believe stupid shit ignorant of science and fearing for the souls of people burning in hell causing massive depression. This series of 40 so far is a breakdown of the psychological mechanisms that cause irrational belief.