Btw, I agree with you on the "even playing field". The magic sky man, talking snakes, fruit causing evil have competed for head space against 72 virgins in paradise, and other outrageous calls for mindless followers for over 20 centuries. After 100 generations or so, irrational persuasion becomes tuned by the Darwinian selection of ideas. Exploitation of primitive human impulses and insecurities is optimized by exactly the right amount of emotional shock and awe. And, I suspect that the same irrationality is being simulated by AI in the advertising industry to mimic the success of religious indoctrination.
I took a class in string theory not long ago. The quark epoch has some cool math associated with it; good topic for future discussion.
I hope it didn't go beneath the radar that the entire fourth paragraph was relentless sarcasm. I find it ridiculous that people seriously consider such things now and I consider it all a more or less closed case.
I would think that fervent followers of the magic sky man would be as completely oblivious to the sarcasm, as they are to the inanity of religion. These people lack the intelligence to even survive an ice age like our ancestors did 10,000 years ago. In the last century, every decade has seen the bell curve for IQ skew further to the right. Honestly, it's sad.
Is it wrong that I think evolution denyers are absolute tools?
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No problem; I think you'll enjoy the group.
Btw, I agree with you on the "even playing field". The magic sky man, talking snakes, fruit causing evil have competed for head space against 72 virgins in paradise, and other outrageous calls for mindless followers for over 20 centuries. After 100 generations or so, irrational persuasion becomes tuned by the Darwinian selection of ideas. Exploitation of primitive human impulses and insecurities is optimized by exactly the right amount of emotional shock and awe. And, I suspect that the same irrationality is being simulated by AI in the advertising industry to mimic the success of religious indoctrination.
I took a class in string theory not long ago. The quark epoch has some cool math associated with it; good topic for future discussion.
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I would think that fervent followers of the magic sky man would be as completely oblivious to the sarcasm, as they are to the inanity of religion. These people lack the intelligence to even survive an ice age like our ancestors did 10,000 years ago. In the last century, every decade has seen the bell curve for IQ skew further to the right. Honestly, it's sad.