Sentences with phrase «educated people believe»

Some poorly educated people believe that the Mayans prophesized the end of the world on that date, but what really happens — in the most basic terms — is that their calendar simply rolls over, much like ours does from December of one year to January of the next.

Yes, many smart and educated people believe in god, and most people who believe are intelligent to some degree.

The flip - side is that in our so - called modern world, very educated people believe in Tarot cards, horoscopes, etc..

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

He has shown a lack of reasoning in this regard, following along the lines that accepting creation means that basically a person is «stupid» and that educated people believe in this theory.

Anyway, most rational and educated people believe in science not just because it explains things, but because it accurately predicts them.

Do you have any idea how many Doctors, Scientists, Engineers, and many other well educated people believe in God?

Not exact matches

His two main pillars for philanthropy are children and education - he believes every child deserves a chance to be educated and it is his personal mission to educate more than one million people worldwide.

As consumers seek out greater convenience and choice via the Internet, «We believe there is significant room for Alibaba to further improve people's awareness of online retailing, change the lifestyle and user behavior of residents in lower - tier cities, and educate them to shift from physical stores to online stores,» UBS analysts wrote.

And some Christians who believe and trust in God are credited with discoveries and educating other people about physics.

For the sceptic the answer is simple — less educated people are more likely to believe in superstitious nonsense.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

Last question, why are so many well off university educated people desperate to believe that Jesus definitely was not illiterate?

When people like you belittle others and put them down because of a difference in ideas and what they may believe and to call those who have religious beliefs poorly educated it really makes you look like the one who is not truly educated and makes you look very ignorant which is sad.

Even highly educated people, persons who are otherwise skeptical of religion in general, are devoted admirers of saints and believe literally in the miracles ascribed to them.

The resurrection of Jesus was believed and communicated both by «educated» and «non-educated» people.

As a Catholic (born, raised, and educated) I believe the problem with this religion is people like you.

I believe in educating people and made sure at the last church I was at that attendees at new members class received a copy and anyone else that expressed an interest in it.

Do you want people here to believe that you, and people who feel the same way, are poorly educated.

It is unfathomable to me that an educated person who is a doctor or engineer or any kind of job with a science background would still believe in santa claus.

Imagine further that, when you looked around, you noticed that the smarter or better educated a person was, the less likely they were to believe in witches.

Its such a great feeling that so many educated people, like yourself actually believe that all the metals, oil and materials - and the science behind them were just put there by god - and that nature and evolution had nothing to do with it.

I studied at a Catholic University and was raised in a Christian household... As an educated adult I can not understand how people so blindly believe in a fairytale as the answer to all of life's questions and push their beliefs to negatively affect others.

Wait a minute... Educated, smart, intelligent, logical, rational people DO NT believe in God and uneducated, naive, irrational, dummies DO believe in God?

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Two kinds of people in this world... those who believe in the literal Bible, and those who are educated.

To allow any religious or secular group their own holiday would just be chaos, and to believe there are supposedly educated people who would support such is absurd.

An organization that educates people, clearing up misconceptions and encouraging a dialogue with others that believe differently is a bad thing?

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

At the same time, Stove maintains that «Darwinism says many things, especially about our species, which are too obviously false to be believed by an educated person; or at least by an educated person who retains any capacity at all for critical thought.»

The atheist answer to facts is just to kill off all the educated people so that everybody is equally dumb (read the histories of your atheist heroes: Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot who literally killed off the intellectuals, teachers, etc. because they realized that only the ignorant would believe their atheist nonsense).

As an educated person, I can not believe that these types of supernatural belief systems hold any relevance in today's society.

Most religions and religious people cant seem to just believe and otherwise let live — they have to flaunt it, or «educate» people, or whatever

Being arrogant enough to believe there's only one «correct» way of thinking is exactly why religion will increasingly struggle, as more people become educated throughout the country and find other paths instead of interpreting scripture literally, regardless of how factually / scientifically inaccurate it is.

We need to invent a new word for people willing to believe the writings of unknown authors, of unknown origin, of an unknown but ancient time, which is badly worded, internally AND externally (with modern science) inconsistent, full of statements with no actual arguments to back them up, with the only decently educated people to back it all up are theologians who twist the meaning of words and commit logical fallacies and still only try to prove that SOMETHING must exist, not that christianity is the truth.

I certainly don't know everything, but it's refreshing to hear the same thing from highly educated people who believe not knowing is a wonderful reason to try to learn.

You can still be a well educated person and believe that some unseen deity wants you to blow yourself and 50 innocent people to bits.

There are people who are educated and undeducated who believe in God.

There are many doctors, lawyers and other highly educated people who believe in God... this is not an issue of intelligence but it's really an issue of rebellion and the lack of acknowlegement of a higher authority and where this occurs, immorality and anarchy usually results.

For the modern highly educated person who believes «that truth is glimpsed momentarily and in fragments, that it lacks symmetry, that it is awkward and angular as it breaks through to us,» he suggests, the very phrasing of religious discourse in consistent, propositional statements will sound unreal (p. 42).

«Educating people regarding the different aging methods is something I believe is often overlooked, and I am excited to inform attendees of these processes, as well as how to determine different grades of beef.»

I really believe in educating young people about the importance of wellness and food as a healthy start to life.

Whether or not you and I agree with this view, there are many well educated, well meaning people who do sincerely believe that this is entirely a matter of parental responsibility and they are philosophically opposed to ad bans.

He believes, and stubbornly too, that the Ekiti people are sophisticated, educated and progressive in orientation to reject development and untainted public service.

We do have a more media - savvy, well - educated population in London and they are more likely, I think, to have read some of the negative press that's been about us, and I think they'd be more likely to believe it, whereas people outside of London have, I think, been fairly cynical about the media campaign and the campaign that the other parties have waged against us.

There are people here, educated people, who don't actually believe bin Laden was captured or killed at that compound.

But Hersh believes this second factor is changing, due in part to major efforts to educate people about the problems associated with overuse of antibiotics, such as CDC's «Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work» program.

Universities have a responsibility to educate graduate students about the realities of a career in research, he believes, and to track what people actually do with their education.

I truly believe that the fitness industry transforms lives, and im so proud to be able to have a part in that every single day, I educate, I train I live and breathe this life.This for me is a lifestyle and I want to inspire as many people out there on how they can make it a lifestyle change forever.

There are many people, highly educated and believing themselves intelligent, that say that all diets come down to calories.