What I understood: We wouldn’t be automatically right by saying the opposite of what stupid people say. This is because stupid people are wrong from many angles, and to be right one needs to be right in all angles. And some times, stupid people may be correct too. Or rather, stupidity of believers is not evidence against the belief. In fact, most beliefs are not completely wrong. We want to keep the correct parts and reject wrong parts, not reject everything once we realize it fails to predict our goals.
What I understood: We wouldn’t be automatically right by saying the opposite of what stupid people say. This is because stupid people are wrong from many angles, and to be right one needs to be right in all angles. And some times, stupid people may be correct too. Or rather, stupidity of believers is not evidence against the belief. In fact, most beliefs are not completely wrong. We want to keep the correct parts and reject wrong parts, not reject everything once we realize it fails to predict our goals.