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Study finds religious people are less intelligent then atheists.

Enes CanTear You Apart said:
But I just don't respect Dawkins because he is obsessed with muslim world and he never ever sees the goods/bads together, to him muslims are pure evil, he is narrow-minded.
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I don't think he is obsessed with muslim world any more then with any other religion. To him they all are evil.
 
AKMVP said:
I don't think he is obsessed with muslim world any more then with any other religion. To him they all are evil.
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If so, this is precisely why your article on Judaism and atheism offers zero credence as to how a community tied together by religion, or a culture created by religion has dominated the Nobel prize recipient alumni
 
AKMVP said:
I wonder if some Jewish people think about themselves as ethnic rather then religious group though? I personally know few Jewish people who do not follow any Judaism rituals (do not eat kosher food, no brit for boys, never go to synagogue, etc.).
Is it possible to be Jewish atheist?
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Judaism can be referred to as both a religion and a race, so to answer your question: yes.
 
I agree in general. I think the faith piece puts us believers in a hole when it comes to coming through every detail of your belief system.
 
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CONAN said:
I agree in general. I think the faith piece puts us believers in a hole when it comes to coming through every detail of your belief system.
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Well said. JK.

To answer Colton's question, didn't the article say that they measured average IQ of a random sample of both groups? The article is not surprising at all. It's very hard to argue that atheism and education bear no correlation. It obviously does. And education is very closely linked to IQ scores. So this whole thing is not surprising.

As for Franklin's comment, only a minority of Jews, in general, actually practice the religion, or possess any deep faith. Most are culturally Jewish. That is even more obvious when it comes to the intellectual Jewish clique. But then again, what percentage of biologists or physicists are believers? 5%? Some people manage to have religious faith, while maintaining their scientific objectivity. But it's somewhat difficult.

The nonsensical idea that intelligent people become atheist is just that; nonsense. But access to knowledge does liberalize religious thought in almost every instance.
 
Siro said:
Well said. JK.

To answer Colton's question, didn't the article say that they measured average IQ of a random sample of both groups? The article is not surprising at all. It's very hard to argue that atheism and education bear no correlation. It obviously does. And education is very closely linked to IQ scores. So this whole thing is not surprising.

As for Franklin's comment, only a minority of Jews, in general, actually practice the religion, or possess any deep faith. Most are culturally Jewish. That is even more obvious when it comes to the intellectual Jewish clique. But then again, what percentage of biologists or physicists are believers? 5%? Some people manage to have religious faith, while maintaining their scientific objectivity. But it's somewhat difficult.

The nonsensical idea that intelligent people become atheist is just that; nonsense. But access to knowledge does liberalize religious thought in almost every instance.
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https://www.adherents.com/people/100_scientists.html

Granted some are wrong like Einstein more deist than Jewish but there is a lot more than 5%.

A lot of atheists say to only include scientists after 1859.

The guy who invented the Internet, Christian. The guy who invented the Radio, Christian.

The greatest Rocket Scientist of all time, Christian.

https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/

48% of scientists say they have a religious affiliation. Not 5%.

The survey also found younger scientists to be "substantially more likely than their older counterparts to say they believe in God". Among the surveyed fields, chemists were the most likely to say they believe in God.

Younger scientists more likely to believe in god. The age of atheism came, it was rampant during the time of red Russia and Cuba. Atheism is declining and atheism in science is no exception.

https://www.scilogs.eu/en/blog/biol...jan-02-2011-jonathan-leake-full-draft-version
 
Siro said:
To answer Colton's question, didn't the article say that they measured average IQ of a random sample of both groups?
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No, I don't think it said that, but maybe I missed something. And even if it said that, my main question was HOW did they measure IQ?
 
I am an atheist and I think this study is silly. It is essentially comparing a group of people who thought long and hard about what their parents told them was the truth against a group of people who thought long and hard about what their parents told them was the truth and people who never bothered to think at all.

As an atheist to atheists get off your high horse. Being an atheist isn't something that you should preach about. It is simply the absence of a faith in god.

You wouldn't preach about the non-existence of unicorns,would you?
 
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