1.) Woohoo! Excellent news!
A few hours later, I find I remain physically pained when attempting to come to terms with the notion that a person could express the belief that only genetically modified tomatoes have genes. The very ability to formulate the statement requires knowledge that contradicts the belief.
2.) Scientific literacy isn't really the same thing as rationality.
Certainly not. But -- would you agree that scientific literacy and cultivated rationality are highly correlated?
The very ability to formulate the statement requires knowledge that contradicts the belief.
Human beings are a lot closer relatives of parrots than of the kind of reasoner that would have a problem with making a statement just because they lacked the knowledge necessary for formulating it.
Encountered at: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/click-and-weep/scientific-literacy/