Friday, June 13, 2008

Intelligence = No God


this is interesting. People who have a high Intelligence Quotient (IQ) are apparently less likely to believe in God. An article on Telegraph.co.uk had this "Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average."
Lynn's paper, written for the academic journal Intelligence, concluded that a decline in religious activity was directly linked to an increase in average intelligence. "But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded "simplistic" by critics." Read more.

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