science V's the Intellect

bogwalrus

Do you think being a very smart/intellectual person means you will lean towards science as being a fundamental fact or reason of everything being the way it is? I know many philosophical and theological people that believe science as insignificant. They are very smart people now, so are their views of life veing seperate to science in anyways releveant?? i am trying to understand both a philosophical and scientific view of things.

Fremen

Do you think being a very smart/intellectual person means you will lean towards science as being a fundamental fact or reason of everything being the way it is?

I think you answered your own question to some extent, by saying that you know some people who you regard as being very smart but are not scientific. I think smart people often tend to be curious about the world around them, and can find satisfying explanations for their questions in science.

This isn't to say that religion and intelligence are mutually exclusive. Granted, taking "god did it" as an explanation for everything is a bit much, but you can still find highly intelligent religious people. The jesuits, for example, are famously intellectual.

Reku

Throw in the fact that there are plenty of "scientists"/"engineers" who are complete and utter idiots, who's only amazing mental feat is that they actually got degrees, and I think it's simply a case of you get the same intellectual spread in science and related topics as you do in every other field (e.g. theology), it's just that in science the more intellectually gifted tend to make much bigger waves and so get noticed a lot more in comparison to those who are less so, giving the appearance that there are more intellectual people in the field.

bogwalrus

thanks. It was weird what i was asking but i suppose i do know the answer myself. tnx