Is the average IQ of atheists and rationalists is higher than that of believers?
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Yes, actually a Danish professor of developmental psychology, Helmuth Nyborg did a study with 700 American subjects and concluded that atheists have a higher IQ than believer by a 5.8 difference
If you find some, let me know!
Yes it has been proven.
No geyamala: I.Q. has nothing to do with it. Frankly it is all faith, and just as frankly you have to have intelligence to get through what is being taught. Any idiot can get into a cult. But to learn of God and the Christ? Man you really have to think hard on a lot of subject matter, you have to use your brain on what is being said, the history, the social climates of the times, the prophets and what they actually were saying, the veracity of it all and so much more than just blind faith. You're eyes are opened to a lot of wisdom when you apply your intelligence to the bible of the believers.
On average it is no higher than an atheists, nor an agnostics.
They too can learn from the Bible just as much.
Now then. Be prepared.
Because there are those who are going to ask you what you are doing asking religious questions on this site. Shouldn't you be in R&S for this? If you don't get that from others I will be quite surprised.
But then hypocrosy runs rampant in both worlds does'nt it?
Not that I know of. There is most likely no difference. Why would you think there would be?
Are there any believers teaching in universities? Any believers that are scientists? Yes there are. Have you ever heard of Dr. John Polkinghorne? He was a former Professor of Mathematical Physics and is past President of Queen's College, Cambridge. Currently he is an ordained priest in the Church of England. Is he less intelligent than if he was an atheists?
According to the link cited by Corey C, the psychologists also did a study that white people have a higher IQ than black people.
"The Danish professor is a highly controversial academician who has previously provoked outrage by concluding that White people are generally more intelligent than Black people, and in 2002 that men have a higher average intelligence than women – while there are more men than women with very low intelligence. "
A quote from the link.
Does this mean that a white male atheists on average has the highest IQ and is the most intelligent?
Having a belief in a Higher Power or being an Atheist are concrete beliefs with no proof of either. Any proof of IQ differential is to broad to measure. And your only as rational as you think you are.
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