Posted on 07/25/2017 11:15:43 AM PDT by fishtank
June 8, 2017
Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?
by Dr Jerry Bergman
In a recent article at Live Science, Laura Geggel asks, “Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?” She claims that “For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.”[i] How they could know this, since IQ tests and other means of measuring intelligence were only developed at the start of the last century, was not answered. Another problem is many kinds of intelligence exist, such as doing well on paper and pencil tests, or on performance tests, for example. Also, there exist intelligence in other areas, such as music IQ, math IQ, abstract conceptualization IQ, verbal IQ, personality IQ, even emotional IQ,[ii] and, according to some authors, 120 different kinds of IQs.
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Nietzsche once said: God is dead!!
God says :Nietzsche is dead
No one knows about me by choice by myself and a recommendation by my employer. There are certain information about people which are not released for security reasons. BTW there are several people with IQs who are in the 200 - 240 range that you will never read nor hear about. Nearly all of us choose to be anonymous and for good reasons. It is really not important for you to know.
I have also found that most proclaimed atheists are perpetually angry and nasty. Recall what a raging horrible beyotch Madeline Murray O’Hare was. Hate oozed from every pore in her body, and she lived to cause trouble for Christians. It seemed like divine justice when she was murdered.
The question should be, Why do atheists think they are smarter than everyone else?
This topic calls to mind an anecdote I once heard about a conversation between the renowned atheist Carl Sagan and a God fearing colleague of his. Sagan asked his peer, “Since you are so smart, why do you believe in God?” His esteemed colleague replied, “Since you are so smart, then why is it you don’t?”
You would not have bragged about your score if you really want to keep it secret.
Anyway, 162 is max score according to everything I read about Cattell. . Think you mistaken.
There also is a deep syntaxic disconnect with these people.
One atheist asked me then why I did not believe in magic if I believed in miracles. I told him magic belief is an archetype mentality of narcissism. I await God’s good graces, I do not use magic for my own self that I would not deserve and do harm with, Heck, for exampe I am happy to have no thyroid and no more the hyperthyroid related dysfunctional behaviors ( addiction to women etc), and hence my thyroid made me sin and I am happy God cut “my thyroid”. (Honest psychiatrists will also admit that disease is often due to a surplus and aboundance that we cannot manage instead of a lack thereof).
Another syntaxic aspect is on Evolution. Evolution to me is the steps in a factory to build a part from a plastic goo to a contact lense. The Bible is not at all that. There is a difference between the history of a person or people and the building of a part. One cannot say a contact lens has a “history” or “origin” - material what not. It would water down the word.
The Bible is peculiar in admonishing to humbly recognize the record and history, giving thé inheritance to a rightful heir. Thus it is
more than merely history, but a guide explaining iniquity in history.
How many of these foolish atheists have not been in court yet, accused of something, with lying authorities and witnesses, all rewriting history to defame them? I suggest if they got the Christ treatment, maybe they would figure that they are not just a contact lens to be discarded like the elites would think they are in usurping their
lives as merely evolved specimen to be discarded for the next better one
You are very limited in your thinking. The space program was/is loaded with people with IQs over 200. You are an ass.
Do you think that every performance value on a weapons system that is reported on Wikipedia is the real performance value or characteristic? Well it isn’t and everyone with half-a-brain knows it. What you read on-line is merely an approximation.
Almost funny if it weren't so pathetic - your quip....
How many of these so called studies were conducted by believers and how many by atheists? Any wagers?
Judging is in the ego of the beholder and the tests developed over the last century were an attempt to be more objective vs. subjective.....Einstein.
When it comes to FR, the intelligent folks tend to be those who
Want to raise your IQ?
“There also is a deep syntaxic disconnect with these people.”
I agree as they prove themselves basically to be 2D thinkers. They also lack the wisdom and scientific observatory skills to prove what they think. Theory usually requires scientific testing or exploratory methods to verify its validity. They also fail especially in their explanations of “Climate Change” the effects of the entire system that the earth is in which affect its climate. The development of the Hubbel Space Telescope and other new deep space sensory technologies are allowing us to begin to make approximations of various phenomena in our solar system that provides us the information where we can now begin to evaluate these effects.
They almost always THINK they are.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Therefore, I really never have any regard for any insight an atheist offers.
I already had an MOS, two in fact, three if you count rifleman. I went to USMC (29 Palms and Albany, GA) AND Air Force schools (Denver, CO) for nearly two years to get them.
I had a guaranteed school out of boot camp by contract.
Semper Fi!...................
You do not need to be so low class.
I think you are B. Essing. The top score on Cattle is 162. Mensa accepts Cattell, Wechsler, and Stanford Binet I believe, but you named Cattell.
BTW. I too am a member of Mensa. And also have credentials which allow me to assess claims like yours.
I do not believe you. Your language skills do not seem even up to par.
I am not BSing. You are right about what Mensa accepts.
But I am a highly accomplished scientist of merit. I have the high tech education, experience, awards and patents to prove it. Lots more to come in new thrust areas I am working on.
I could really care less about your opinions, credentials or anything else you have to say. So I say to you politely to mind your business and do not engage with me again on this forum on any thread. Consider this a warning. Now shove off!
If you did not care, and have such a fragile ego you would not write such bragadocious drivel.
Get out of my LZ!! You are proving yourself to be a snot nosed know-it-all like I expected. I have engaged with you before and you did not know what you are talking about then. Continue your harassment and I will file a complaint against you with the Administration Moderator.
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