IQ & Atheism

[David Meyer]

Our local Mensa chapter has several fundamentalist Christians, including a professor of Creation Science. It's probably 'smarter' to be Christian in the Bible Belt.

-david in Oklahoma



-- Sent from my Palm Pixi
David Morris wrote:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402381



Intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism, a professor has argued.



Belief in God is much lower among academics than among the general

population because scholars have higher IQs, a controversial academic

claimed this week.



In a forthcoming paper for the journal Intelligence, Richard Lynn,

emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, will

argue that there is a strong correlation between high IQ and lack of

religious belief and that average intelligence predicts atheism rates

across 137 countries.


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