Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?

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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.

[El Cid]

220? That’s quite a fete........................

He is Darth Vader - he can literally choke people with his brain waves. Of course he is going to have a very high IQ.

I, on the other hand, am a dead guy riding on a horse, chasing Muslims with my lance.

[DocRock]

James 1:5

[SaxxonWoods]

Atheists are religious people.

That's what scientists say. If you don't practice a typical religion you will substitute something and follow it religiously.

You can't help that because humans are hardwired to have religious beliefs. It's in our DNA. You can call it whatever you like, but it's religious in nature.

[kosciusko51]

Romans 1:22-23 (NASB)

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

[Old Yeller]

Can’t remember was mine 85 or 185? Maybe 65, I don’t know......

My IQ would make a great bowling score.....Or was it a great golf score? Aw heck, I cant remember.

[Old Yeller]

220?
That’s quite a fete........................

No kidding. Mine are size 9's.

[Gargantua]

You make my “160-plus” (Mensa invited me back for further testing to refine that “plus,” never happened) look like moron drool. LOL!

[OregonRancher]

Pascal’s wager. Atheism is a terrible bet. It gives you no chance of winning the prize.

[Seruzawa]

Here we go with this IQ shyt again. IQ is only one facet of intelligence. Plenty of high IQ people believe the most ridiculous things. Take Isaac Asimov. Considered a person of extremely high IQ he nonetheless could never see that socialism is an inevitable failure. I’ll never forget his stupid unhinged rants about Reaganomics.

High IQ people are often the most foolish people in the room.

[stonehouse01]

No way are atheists more intelligent than believers. Let’s start with St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas; both brilliant.

Venerable Bede
Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon
Theodoric of Freiburg
Thomas Bradwardine
Jean Buriden
Nicole Oresme
Nicholas of Cusa
Ignazio Danti
Renee Descartes
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Athanasius Kirchner

All Catholic Christian scientists and this is just a start.

[oh8eleven]

I'll never know if my GCT would have saved me from becoming a grunt since I had already volunteered for artillery - as did my buddy and we both ended up 0811.
By the same token, during ITR, we were told we were selected for OCS. While still being young and foolish, we did know that the life expectancy of a "brown bar" in combat was measured in minutes, maybe hours if lucky ... no thanks.

[mjp]

Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people

What is the correlation between high IQ and the concern about the problem of evil? What is the relation between high IQ and the desire for a permissive relativistic morality?

[Trillian]

I thought this was very interesting as a teen.

[Red Badger]

There was a constant shortage of infantry officers, O-1 and O-2 for some odd reason.....................

[fr_freak]

IMO, intelligence is the god of atheists.

Sure, but not real intelligence - only the label of intelligence. For example, it is set down by the Leftist elites that all smart people believe in global warming, and the leftist peasants then say, "Well, if I back the global warming [hoax], I'll be one of the smart ones, and I'll be superior to those dumb global warming [hoax] deniers." But the correlation of this belief to actual IQ is non-existent. So, the leftist peasant gets handed a diploma, just like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, and suddenly he is "smart".

[Red Badger]

IQ and intelligence are sometimes inversely proportional.

I love Asimov’s books, but his politics sucked..................

[katana]

I guess they’re referring to idiots like G.K. Chesterton, Max Planck, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. You know, only utter dolts like them would believe in a Higher Power.

[semaj]

I’m no genius , but I’m smart enough to know that.

[AzNASCARfan]

Don’t know about all, but the ones I have met or had a conversation with sure think they are...

[5th MEB]

Actually I hope they are smarter than the rest of us.
Just think about it, they know that the second they die they are NOTHING.
We, on the other hand BELIEVE (and know) that the second we die we will be JUDGED.
(I’m kinda hoping for the best there)