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July 29, 2008
IQ and Religion (one academic's view )
People who have high IQs are less likely to believe in God than people of average and below average intelligence, according to Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ireland's University of Ulster. Lynn claims that the general decline in religious observance over the last century is directly related to a rise in average intelligence. The smarter we are the more likely we are to shun religious services?
Editors note: I'm wondering which religion has the smartest membership and which has the dumbest? My guess is Christians (includes Jews) are among the very smartest and I won't say who I think has the worlds dumbest members because they might chop my head off or drive a bomb laden truck into my house.
Posted by Ryan at July 29, 2008 06:26 PM
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Posted by: Ryan at July 29, 2008 07:39 PM
I hope the computer breakdown isn't a sign of displeasure about this post. Hey...I didn't write it!!!!
Posted by: Jack at July 29, 2008 07:42 PM
I will stick by my original assessment as state that this appears to be a text book case of flawed reasoning.
Passing off correlation as causation.
A quick look back at history and such names as...
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Constantine, Aquinas, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, Hoyle, etc. (All Theists) suggests that perhaps something other than IQ is responsible for the current shift we see.
Perhaps it has more to do with anti-theist indoctrination at the youngest levels of government education.
Posted by: Nick Freitas at August 2, 2008 11:20 AM