Has there ever been a study correlating IQ and religious belief ?

Question

for the ones who asked 154 on Stanford-Binet ( mid 70's last official test , top 3% on the web tests but have no faith in them )
not a believer way too many improbables and outright impossibilities involved find Santa more believable than God and the Tooth Fairy is close

Answer 1

better yet check your own I.Q. and list it on answers, with proof, then you might be more believable.

Answer 2

Just be careful to seperate religion and spirituality.

And to Ann Coulter's Clone, you're an idiot if you think all liberals are less than 100. I think a liberal might have the opposing point of view on conservatives.

I'm pretty sure you'd find that it was pretty evenly spread across the board, with equal numbers of both liberals and conservatives with both high and low IQs

It's funny how people can ignore logic when it comes to something they believe strongly in. So even the smartest people can seem idiotic in regards to some topics.

Personally I'm a left wing liberal (that's socially liberal) with democratic socialist political beliefs and a belief in spirituality. I believe in some of the christian beliefs, however I'm starting to see how screwed around they became through the creation of the modern day church. Oh, and I've never taken a official IQ test, but I am in my 3rd year of University studying computer science. And less than official IQ tests usuallly give me about high 130s to low 140s (I really don't read much into those though...)

Answer 3

Yes there have been many of them. Most show an inverse relationship between IQ and religious belief.

However I have found no studies that use a sample of people that accurately reflect the whole spectrum of the world ( or even a nations) demographics. Instead most of them have been done with relatively small numbers of students.

My issue with this is, it does stand to reason that more intelligent people are more likely to question the beliefs their parents taught them. So between their mid Teens and late 20's they are likely to still be "searching" and not identify with a particular religion.

Many of these people in their 30's have finally had enough life experience to make a more intellectual and education conclusion about their religious beliefs.

This is also why studies show a much higher percentage of religious people 30 and older then younger then 30.

Answer 4

It feels like the purchasers of R&S desire a information and risk lesson! something i've got ever examine says that as IQ will enhance, faith decreases. The geniuses of our time are all atheist. The idiots of our time . . . you guessed it. As preparation point is going up, faith is going down. clever knowledgeable everybody is greater probable to be atheist. you may sway the outcomes wildly by utilising wording the question fairly diverse. the adaptation in IQ is form of negligible. whilst you're nerve-racking approximately elevating a baby with a extreme IQ, you're in all threat greater helpful off breastfeeding him for 2 years than protective him from faith. nonetheless, there seems to be like a comfortable enhance in IQ.

Answer 5

IQ does not measure gullibility.
And the raw processing power of a human brain does nothing to define what it will pick up on - a PC can run 'Solitaire' or an ecomonic simulation.

Answer 6

I recently saw a scientific/christian program with a man named Ian Juby. He is a creationist and a christian. http://www.ianjuby.org/ He is also a member of Mensa Canada. That means his IQ is off the charts.
More and more scientist are being lead to Christ through their research and not inspite of it. It's truly sad that people insist that christianity and true science are opposites.
I might add that Pasteur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur , Newton http://www.isaac-newton.org/ , as well as many other men and women of science were also men and women of faith.

Answer 7

Einstein, a smart fellow in physics, did not believe in a bi-direction personal God who answered prayers. He did, however, have a generic belief in God as the master planner and designer of the vast universe.

Answer 8

Yes, and the higher IQ groups are less likely to believe

Answer 9

Lower the IQ greater the religious belief.

Answer 10

i find this question insulting but that's just me.I am not a genius but my IQ is above the norm ,130 something and I believe in Christ.I think people with high I.Q's tend to overanalyze alot and get confused.(notice the word "anal" in overanalyze.)they simply cannot take a simple truth at face value.

Answer 11

I dont know bit I have an IQ of 155, am a first percentile mensan and a rationalist. (i.e. an atheist with brains).