But wouldn’t it be fair to say that being dumb increases the odds of being religious?
What if you know you don’t believe in God, but don’t know if you believe in many gods or no gods?
Maybe there exists a God only occasionally, blipping in and out of existence, just to spite both theists and atheists.
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I got them all right quickly and I’m fairly religious. But it’s still an interesting test and data point. Definitely there are people who are religious because they don’t have more rigorous ways of understanding what’s going on in the world.
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Stuff and nonsense. Bullshit of the highest ordure. Pablum paraded by lower-order so-called ‘scientists’ such as not-actually practising biologists that want to pretend to be what they’re not.
Anyone that studies actual engineering (which does not include ‘computer science’, which is basically neither) quickly works out that the insane mess of how things work (or not) is proof enough that there cannot be any sort of divine creator.
Stuff and nonsense I say!
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These questions are literally called the “Cognitive reflection test”.
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Bah, humbug. Life has no meaning; your life has whatever meaning you can imbue it with.
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What was the effect size?
Did the effect size vary from question to question?
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1.10 + .10 = 1.20
1.05 + .05 = 1.10
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Not quite; the way you phrased it could be read as the third pill preventing one in a hundred heart attacks that would have occurred, rather than might have occurred.
I.e: Pill One reduces the population rate by a third, from 3% to 2%. Pill Two does the same.
Pill Three does nothing for the 97% of the population that weren’t going to have heart attacks anyway, but reduces the unlucky 3% to an unlucky 2.97%.
Me too.
I don’t it’s necessary to believe that existence has intrinsic value in order to think that we can imbue it with value.
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from the wikipedia article on absurdism
What you describe is closer to atheistic existentialism, not nihilism.
Personally, my beliefs are closer to absurdism.
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Thank you! I was mortified that I couldn’t actually solve that. Time to head back to grade nine, I guess.
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If God = Nature then god is just a force, a thing, not an entity. If nature is an aspect of God or nature flows from God then God is beyond, more then, nature, therefor supernatural. If you define nature as anything that exists then the term is so broad that it is completely meaningless.
Trust in Descartes and all will be revealed.
[hastily deletes snarky reply]
Praise @XantheStone the All-Seeing!
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Blocked as a phishing site. Cool, thanks. 
Not in any place I’ve worked, but somebody has to have designed the Pinto, the DC-9, the 35W bridge, & the Titanic
Worked fine for me, but skimming through it there was a whole lot of crazy…
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Drugs!
I’ll take all of them and whatever else you’ve got!
Very small rocks and Skittles?
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