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David Gelernter [6]
Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies; Author, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled our Culture (and ushered in the Obamacrats)
Why is religion so important to most Americans and so trivial to most intellectuals?

 

Is it just a matter of IQ? (Though I thought intellectuals no longer believed in IQ...) But empirically it can't be an IQ issue, because so many of history's greatest minds based their lives on religion — from Michaelangelo or Bach to Spinoza or Dante or Kant. Do modern intellectuals actually believe that all such people are naively deluded? Or could they be missing something themselves?

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[1] http://edge.org/annual-question/what-is-your-question-why
[2] http://edge.org/inthenews/what-is-your-question-why
[3] http://edge.org/contributors/what-is-your-question-why
[4] http://edge.org/responses/what-is-your-question-why
[5] http://edge.org/print/response-detail/11107
[6] http://edge.org/memberbio/david_gelernter