I mean, they do. That’s… not a compliment, but what they were saying is true. In fact, back in my old “Atheist college” days, while it was primarily anti-creationist pro-science movement and before it (fairly quickly, I must admit) turned weird reactionary loser modern-Dawkins type movement, there was a thing called the “Salem hypothesis.” To what degree there’s empirical evidence for it, I don’t know.
Still, as a general rule if a college educated “science” focused person was pro-creationist, you could strongly assume it was an engineer, and maybe it’s confirmation bias; perhaps it’s
that corporations off-loaded modern job training into colleges, so people going to college to get a specific job only gets job training in that specific field, with far less focus on general education and thus creating a group of people who understand nothing about other sciences or the humanities, and can only comprehend everything though the lens of their incredibly small (engineering) focus. Thus, with no real knowledge of any science or history that a high schooler in whatever terrible public high school in the south they went to that taught them it was “the war of North aggression” and “Evolution is a lie” and haven’t learned anything other than “engineering and mathematics” since then, but because they’re semi-competent in one niche area they deal with every day, they feel like they’re well educated experts who can parse the world, when in reality…
Well, in short… “engineers think different” which is why, regardless of any accolades or degrees, Elon Musk will always be a “True Engineer.”
I mean, they do. That’s… not a compliment, but what they were saying is true. In fact, back in my old “Atheist college” days, while it was primarily anti-creationist pro-science movement and before it (fairly quickly, I must admit) turned weird reactionary loser modern-Dawkins type movement, there was a thing called the “Salem hypothesis.” To what degree there’s empirical evidence for it, I don’t know.
Still, as a general rule if a college educated “science” focused person was pro-creationist, you could strongly assume it was an engineer, and maybe it’s confirmation bias; perhaps it’s that corporations off-loaded modern job training into colleges, so people going to college to get a specific job only gets job training in that specific field, with far less focus on general education and thus creating a group of people who understand nothing about other sciences or the humanities, and can only comprehend everything though the lens of their incredibly small (engineering) focus. Thus, with no real knowledge of any science or history that a high schooler in whatever terrible public high school in the south they went to that taught them it was “the war of North aggression” and “Evolution is a lie” and haven’t learned anything other than “engineering and mathematics” since then, but because they’re semi-competent in one niche area they deal with every day, they feel like they’re well educated experts who can parse the world, when in reality…
Well, in short… “engineers think different” which is why, regardless of any accolades or degrees, Elon Musk will always be a “True Engineer.”