DanArmak comments on Let Them Debate College Students - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 06:15PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 10 September 2009 06:48:50PM 1 point [-]

Anyone can teach those at the bottom - it's easy.

Anyone can teach at them, maybe. It's easy enough to tell them, "there is no god, and evolution is true". The hard thing is to make the masses at the bottom rung believe it. Even our best rhetoricians and scientists from way up the ladder have been having only meager success (measured against the amount of people in the world who profess belief in creationism).

Comment author: timtyler 10 September 2009 06:59:07PM *  0 points [-]

Sure: that's one of the properties of blind faith - no amount of reasoned argument helps.

They recognize that it is the devil talking - and they know his reputation as a debater - so the fingers go in their ears and we hear the "la-la" song.