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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by dagw on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:38AM (#12487128)
I knew a very smart and successful scientist doing biochemistry research at a pharma company who fell squarely in the Intelligent Design camp. Rather than seeing it as a wholesale abandonment of science they simply felt that the evidence of the prevailing scientific view was not that strong, and that ID offered firmer theory for the beginning/evolution of life than any other theory.
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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by Nursie on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:45AM (#12487170)
In which case they were wrong, and most likely trying to reconcile their religious leanings with their self-image.
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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by dagw on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:53AM (#12487240)
Well sure, but that doesn't make him an idiot.
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Re:To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they'r... by Nursie on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:05AM (#12487332)
Depends on your definition. People called me an idiot (well, my partner did) when I hit myself in the hand with a hammer, really hard, while fossil hunting. So hard I had to go to hospital...

But in other respects I'm at least a reasonably intelligent software engineer!

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