The intellectual debates will always be there.
One view is that knowledge and wisdom can only be acquired through learning, experiencing and time. This is based on our senses absorbing what we see, hear, feel, touch, taste and think about the external world.
Another view is that knowledge and wisdom are within us all, or can be revealed directly, or is accessible to us all, perhaps in some universal knowledge base.
Another view is that it is not 'either/or' views at all but 'both' this and that.
My view is that we should not take other views at face value, as beliefs that we may or may not agree with, but we should make the personal effort to experience for ourselves.
Only through personal effort and personal experience can we get the 'aha' factor.
Only through personal effort and experience can we 'know' what is right, as opposed to having learned something which could be right or wrong.
You might call these 'aha's' instants of enlightenment?
