In reply to gavmac:
Ignorant of what exactly? Have you ever been to America?
The kind of people I'm referring to are the kind of people that want Sarah Palin for a president. If its OK to call Sarah Palin stupid it surely follows that her supporters must be stupid too.
The Noah story is perhaps the most demonstrably false story in the whole Bible. It shares a similar problem with the story of Santa Claus. How can Santa to visit every child's home (and eat mince pie at each house too) in one night? A bit of simple arithmetic is all that's needed to see the Santa story can't be true.
With Noah the question is how long does it take one man to collect up every species on the planet? Well there's 350,000 species of beetle for starters. If he found a new one everyday that alone would take 958 years, even longer than his own ridiculously long lifespan. Modern science admits it hasn't yet discovered many of the species that exist. Yet Noah managed it in a few weeks? If we restrict the animals to large vertebrates its still absurd: traveling from the rainforests of Brazil, Africa, the Arctic and Antarctic etc. all that travelling done on horse back? There are loads of other problems with the story too: not enough water to flood the earth, the Ark that engineers say could not have been built that big and made of wood ....
The point is if you live your life by these fables and these problems don't even occur to you then I think that suggests there's not a lot going on between one's ears. I think 'stupid' is a reasonable word to use in casual banter on a web forum. You can argue whether they're being willfully stupid or actually have a lower IQs but I think that's besides the point.
