Posted by:
gheco
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Date: November 25, 2015 12:57PM
I would suggest there is a difference between obtaining high degrees of education as opposed to innovative, original, critical thought.
As Apple's Steve Jobs once mused, companies hire the smartest people they can yet do not allow them to think for themselves.
"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
To take it a step further, if LDS Inc were to put a person that actually gave more credence to critical thought rather than blindly following corporate governance and decorum, there would be a huge security risk of that executive going rogue.
The top 15 have impressive looking resumes, as well as pedigrees in most cases.
However, they are not intellectuals.
This is why we do not see them in unscripted Q & A sessions, and why all media releases are either carefully staged, or if not, generally retracted.
None of the top 15 could last minutes in an open debate with the likes of Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, or for that matter Bill Maher or Penn Gillette.