On What it Means to Be an Intellectual, Evolution and the Bible

None. Just a brain. That’s kind of why the whole word has taken on a negative connotation.

A lot of intellectuals move outside their fields, too. Like, they find a niche in some science, and then think that broadens it out to religion; or they get a doctorate in Gender Theory and think that makes them an authority on Economics. Like Richard Dawkins is a good example of someone moving from their field of expertise into something unknown. He’s amazing at what he knows about Evolution—though Noble is probably closer, due to the recent discoveries they’re making about genes. They say DNA has some elements of Artificial Intelligence programming. That’s called “Learning Theory.” So, I think Noble is closer to the truth.

But, generally, a preacher once said, 27 out of the 31 civilizations that existed, fell due to losing God. There’s something real about God. You see it in sages like Pythagoras, you see it in sages like Confucius… there’s a real part of humanity that needs God. It just makes us better people. We have hope, and if we don’t attain this life and its benefits, we have the next.

So… to be an intellectual you just have to have a brain. And many people dabble in one field of knowledge, but don’t necessarily gain the credentials in another.

While a Renascence Man dabbles in all fields of knowledge, and gets a basic proficiency at everything—usually by following established tradition in the empirical sciences and witness testimony of history.

However, Christ seemed to live a perfect moral life… He seemed to demonstrate perfect Charity and sacrificial love. He seemed to validate our exasperation with the world, and also our feelings of needing solitary isolation. He was a true man, who showed true morals, and there’s tons of physical evidence that shows the Bible is true. I just think the evidence shows that God interacted with the Jewish People, and brought God Made Flesh into existence, where He could teach us what man couldn’t. And through His apostles, and Prophets and Saints He established a tradition that’s sound in all sense of the word.

As it is, God’s law is self evident, and that’s what converts. Specious theories of Creationism and Creation Science—for any of their theories to be true, the Earth would have to basically be flat. It couldn’t be the cosmology talked about by science, it’d have to be a completely different one.

But, still, Christ came, He died, He raised—we have witnesses who died believing that, including His own brother James—He had wounds when Thomas touched Him. He was God made in Human Flesh. He was the moral paragon, which humans need because without it, we don’t know right from wrong. We need the Bible to tell us how morality actually functions, even down to the nitty gritty about what it is to wage war.

But, again the conversation is about intellectuals. Anyone can be an intellectual. However, your intellectual prowess comes from the quality of information you look at. So, to be a useful intellectual, you have to find useful information. And you need the acumen to identify what is and isn’t. Which if you ask me, is guided through the Holy Spirit, as He is the giver of all knowledge.