Doubt=intelligence,true or false?

Answer 1

damn right. don't take it for granted. do your research!

Answer 2

True AND False

It is true because doubting is along the same lines as being skeptical and being skeptical/doubtful is healthy when faced with unfamiliar situations. If a guy came to your door with a brand new top-of-the-line mercedes and said he'd sell it to you for 2 dollars..... if you didn't have a healthy doubt about the man's intentions or the legality of that car it would be rather unintelligent to purchase the car from the man.

Whereas on the opposite end of the spectrum, if someone told you that if you jumped off a cliff onto the jagged rocks below you'd suffer a terrible painful death & you doubted that..... it would be just plain stupid..... aka a sign of no intelligence.

it is healthy to doubt that which sounds unbelievable or too good to be true..... whereas suspending all doubt in favor of doing/believing something that sounds perfect but has no factual basis is incredibly stupid.

Answer 3

Understanding=intelligence

Answer 4

False. The two are entirely different. Intelligence is the degree one is able to absorb and process new information. Doubt is being less than certain of something.

Answer 5

The atheists on Yahoo Answers are too skeptical, actually. They claim that "the world would be a better place without any religion." They fail to take into account the good done by religious people and religious organizations. I don't see armies of atheists willing to step up and help the poor, homeless, hungry, and sick in the US and across the globe were all religions to disappear.

The atheists try to point out the religious extremists who are violent. I could easily point to China or the old Soviet Union (officially atheist) with all of their human rights violations. You cannot define religious people from the small minority of extremists.

Religion does make the world a better place.

Frankly, I don't see atheists and their organizations doing much of anything positive. They only try to tear down.

Answer 6

Curiosity and skepticism go hand in hand. With skepticism and curiosity you have a thirst for knowledge and a willingness to explore. Exploring results in the discovery of things that were previously unknown. In that way I suppose doubt could have a correlation with intelligence.

Answer 7

False.

A five-year-old touching something you tell them is hot is the beginning of intellectual learning. A thirty-year-old doing the same is a total break down.

Doubt is not the mark; investigation is. Forming the processes to distinguish fact from fiction is a core portion of intelligence.

Answer 8

doubt = faith or a search


i think it depends on intelligent which way you go.. faith is a way of giving up. if you cant handle the search then just settle for someone else's answer.

i don't think we will ever know THE answer.. i don't think we are capable of it.. think about it, we can only know 4 dimensions there are probably way more and our brains just cant absorb them..

so think about how stupidly, unbelievably unknowable THE truth actually is.

Answer 9

No, Skepticism is more than just doubt, and intelligence is not simply Skepticism.

Answer 10

As an atheist, I have to disagree. I know plenty of highly intelligent people who are ardent believers...

Answer 11

To question things is more of wisdom than intelligence.