A simple, but failsafe, method for determining the latent intelligence of any person is whether they’re willing to accept rational alternatives for blind faith in a supernatural being. Or to rephrase this issue another way: Is a person open to the possibility that other options exist independent from an unwavering, but inherently unprovable, belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God? Can human life exist on planet Earth without a supernatural being overseeing it? Is randomness—chaos, if you will—somehow an unnatural and illogical state of being? Because if a person is not open to this inherently logical line of free thinking, then you can immediately draw the rightful conclusion that you’re dealing with a connaturally stubborn, dogmatic, obtuse—And yes, willfully ignorant!—individual and proceed with said relationship accordingly. All information registered in our brains is technically good information, even when it comes couched as unwanted and oftentimes unexpected nescience manifested. Deity believers may be right and atheists likewise may be right in their core convictions, but neither camp can produce a single shred of empirical evidence to support their diametrically opposite claims. Some things are meant to be known and others are not; the creation and governance of our peculiar Universe certainly falls within these amorphous boundaries.
