La irracionalidad ni se crea ni se destruye

... tan sólo se transforma.

From Hollywood to the academy, nonbelievers are convinced that a decline in traditional religious belief would lead to a smarter, more scientifically literate and even more civilized populace.

The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.

El ser humano no está capacitado para la racionalidad completa. Comprender lo comprensible, reconocer lo incomprensible y aceptarlo como tal es una tarea cognitivamente tan exigente que no resulta digerible.

Vía Nihil Obstat.