Sentences with phrase «otherwise intelligent people»

It's remarkable how many otherwise intelligent people understand that knowing a bit of medicine doesn't make them doctors.

Many otherwise intelligent people have been fooled by a color scale with insufficient resolution.

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To see so many otherwise intelligent people fighting over whether or not global warming is a good reason to reduce said reliance makes me lose some of what little remaining faith I have in humanity.

Sigh, I really don't understand how otherwise intelligent people can remain so blissfully ignorant when it comes to religion (Christianity more specifically).

How can so many otherwise intelligent people not see how silly this position is?

What's mind boggling is how so many otherwise intelligent people blindly trust just - so stories like mud - to - meercat evolution and catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

I was surprised, though, at the hostility on the part of otherwise intelligent people.

You would think that would go without saying, but I know many otherwise intelligent people who are heaps in credit card debt.

I have heard otherwise intelligent people say that the economy can't go into a recession because the slope of the Treasury yield curve is too positive.

I suppose you'd be safe if that's what you were looking to do — there's hardly a more acceptable topic for a sermon than otherwise intelligent people dabbling in mainlining.

Those of us outside the congregation find religious belief a fascinating subject and are eager to learn as much as we can about this curious practice and why it affects so many otherwise intelligent people.

The virus which has otherwise intelligent people believing in ridiculous things for which there is no evidence.

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

We just can't fathom why these otherwise intelligent people can't see how bizarre worshipping gods is!

These powerful emotions are enough to allow otherwise intelligent people to believe virtually anything put in front or, or taught to them, that they can somehow gain comfort from.

But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.»

Never ceases to amaze me how many otherwise intelligent people are so willing to make a monkey of themselves lol

Why do otherwise intelligent people turn off their brain when they open the bible?

So I think it's more accurate to say that religion makes otherwise intelligent people believe stupid things.

Sometimes there is just no explaining otherwise intelligent people's fantasies - brilliant Isaac Newton was heavily into the occult also and he pursued making gold searching for a magic Philosopher's Stone.

I am constantly mystified how otherwise intelligent people can believe in a myth like a god, any god.

It's amazing what otherwise intelligent people will accept from authority figures.

Again, it is, alas, still possible for otherwise intelligent people to jeer at Christianity as a «pie - in - the - sky» religion which has little or no contact with day - to - day life.

It's also interesting that otherwise intelligent people can also be religious.

Yup, turns otherwise intelligent people into irrational sheep believing that some invisible sky being is actually listening... Nothing fails like prayer.

But it is interesting to see otherwise intelligent people tie themselves up in knots over the fables of their faith.

Why do otherwise intelligent people believe in such silly fairy tales they know can't possibly be true?

Otherwise intelligent people should not be so stupid.

It is painful to watch otherwise intelligent people contort themselves, with such weak - minded casuistry, beyond all limits of reason to reconcile that which they know with that which they want to believe.

Confirmation bias is the primary reason why otherwise intelligent people get caught up in asset bubbles that are obvious in the unforgiving light that comes the morning after.

Michael, how is it possible that an otherwise intelligent person such as yourself can get self publishing so wrong, so consistently.

Not exact matches

This is how the non-gifted among us can surpass otherwise more intelligent people.»

There aren't many intelligent, loving people who are religious (in my life, I've found literally ONE and he's a priest and a relative, so I'm biased — otherwise it would be zero).

Here, people are generally polite, intelligent, helpful, and patient with our weaknesses for the most part, otherwise I would quit it right now.

Given all those who have, over the centuries, rejected God through nothing more than a healthy, intelligent skepticism, or who have otherwise committed mortal sins, there must be literally thousands of millions of people burning for all eternity in the cosmic oven of hell set up by their all - loving god.

What makes otherwise intelligent, educated people buy into ancient mumbo jumbo stories?

I agree with Bill Maher, but then again I'm a lifelong atheist... I have never believed for one minute that the god as portrayed in the bible or koran has any possibility of being real to everyone, otherwise that god would make itself obvious and not hide behind man made lies and cultural practices that self perpetuate thanks fo fear... otherwise there would not be several thousand man made religions trying to claim that god as their own... yes, it is an opinion, only valid to the opinion holder and no one else... Bill, thanks for so strongly making that point, not that it makes any difference to god fearing people... they will hold on to their opinion as strongly as they hold on to their shotgun, thinking that each provides them with some form of security... to intelligent people, neither is secure and neither leads to true freedom of the mind...

Living in Salt Lake, all I've seen is Mormonism thwart and oppress otherwise intelligent and free - thinking people.

Muslims are not the problem, it is Islam which pollutes the minds of otherwise intelligent, friendly, loving people.

Why do otherwise intelligent, reasonable, and well - meaning people use this book to find artificial differences among us; differences that sometime result in our killing each other, or subjugating each other, or rejecting each other.

The person who made this comment is an otherwise highly intelligent person, so it just shows how easily some folks can be suckered.

And absolutely, the problem is SO MUCH BIGGER than one person's choices: the amount of misinformation floating around out there (and the amount of it that comes from otherwise intelligent, highly trained medical professionals), the lack of help and support for new nursing moms, the lack of adequate maternity leave in the US (in Canada, where I live, one can take up to 50 weeks» leave with unemployment pay), the persistent idea that dads «need» to bottle - feed their babies in order to bond with them, the idea that formula is «normal» and breastfeeding is «best» — in some places it really seems like you'd need a will of iron to keep at it when the going gets tough.

Otherwise, stating that dogs are predestined to be aggressive would be like me assuming that you were predestined to be less intelligent than people you try to argue with.

I am not surprised that otherwise intelligent and rational people believe this.

I would submit that «The fact that a number of my colleagues and many otherwise intelligent - seeming people still seem to treat these guys as legitimate, honest commenters, whose words have equal weight with, say, those of Susan Solomon or J. Michael Wallace, or, for that matter, Gavin Schmidt or Mike Mann or myself.»

For Dr. Kevin Trenberth to suggest that sceptics of «dangerous anthropogenic climate change or otherwise should play along with this psychodrama is an insult to a lot of very intelligent people.

If we assume that law schools are performing their proper function, and if we examine what it is that law schools do in order to work backwards and determine their function, we would have to conclude that the function of law schools is to take reasonably intelligent people and turn them into naive, academically proficient (but otherwise dysfunctional) idiots.

As for coasting through school on the notes of others, with or without attending class, there's the realistic prospect that those people understand law better than most of the rest of us, whether or not they're otherwise more intelligent than the rest of us; or, even that they are more intelligent than the rest of us.

Justice Hackland commented at para 73 on the accused's demeanor, who appeared «quite naive, immature and inarticulate» despite being an intelligent physician, and was the «type of person who would «go with the flow» and avoid debate or confrontation while a guest in the home of someone who should otherwise have been confronted.»