A stupid man is one who believes in the existence of a God.
An intelligent man, however, does not even believe that his own existence has anything to do with the existence of a God.
In either case, let’s assume for the sake of the argument that God did create the stupid man and did create the intelligent man both in his own image and likeness? Now what have you religious morons have to say for yourselves about being stupid or being intelligent either way as a man, huh? Poch Suzara
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The philosopher David Hume has a very practical heuristic: "The wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." Simple and commonsensical but the majority in fact don't apply the above principle.
I'd like to add another principle--something that scientists apply (the principle of conservatism). We have to consider the plausibility of the claim. Does the claim cohere or contradict with what we already know? In the case of deities which are said to be nonphysical phenomena that possess sentience, consciousness, intelligence, (peri)omnipotence, trans-temporality, trans-spatiality, etc. then, given our current state of understanding of the universe, we'd have to assign such a claim a very low probability rating. Why? Just one example: We know that brains are necessary for consciousness and intelligence. There is no known nonphysical mechanism to produce intelligence.
Given the implausibility of the claim, we would rightly demand much much much more quality evidence for it than if the claim were say "there was a cockroach in my room." The latter is so mundane and commonplace that being skeptical of and doubting the assertion should rightly ridiculed.
So we must be conservative in the sense that new claims must not contradict our current understanding of reality. And if the claim does then the evidence we demand must be proportional to the degree with which that claim does not cohere with our current knowledge of how the world is and works.
There is no such thing as 'stupid man'. God created us through His intelligence including freedom. The things that we sinfully do and the thoughts that we 'LIMIT' ourselves to think and ponder on would most likely cover us with ignorance which is very much painful to our Creator. have you ever thought for a second that you could be who you talk about?
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