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To: csense; allmendream
The less educated someone is the more likely they are to be a creationist.

As a corollary, the more highly educated and "intelligent" a person is, the more likely he is to be taken in by folks like Uri Geller passing off legerdemain as psi power. According to James Randi, it has something to do with sophisticated intellectual structures that restrict their perception in ways so predictable that magicians can use their perceptual lacunae to run an elephant past their noses and they won't even see it.
140 posted on 08/21/2011 6:18:03 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Feynman was most certainly not taken in by Uri Geller’s supposed mental powers.

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm


157 posted on 08/21/2011 7:26:50 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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