1 Corinthians 1:18-24
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
[[For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”]]
Here’s a prime example of just exactly what that verse is talking about:
“The betrayal that most bothers him comes from religion. Dawkins is an atheist, and indeed a strenuous, militant atheist. He is proud of being an atheist. He thinks religious belief is a dangerous virus, and that it is a crime to infect the mind of a child with it. He thinks religions are sinks of falsehood (most of them have to be, since at most one could be true), and especially he regrets their public influence. He is made apoplectic by, for instance, the pontifications of religious “leaders” on whether human clones would be truly human, made in blissful ignorance of the fact that identical twins are clones of each other.”
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/reviews/Dawkins.htm