OK WHERE is the PROOF that Christians Have a lower IQ?

Question

True I cannot spell (Christ is perfect I am not) but I have been educated in other areas. If you would like to know, I could also care less about were a comma goes. I hated english, always have.

If you have any proof (a study of any kind) send it my way. Please, prove me wrong.........

Answer 1

http://www.answers.com/topic/religiosity-and-intelligence

here you go, sweety, now run and buy yourself a dictionary.....

Answer 2

The bottom line is that the supposed lack of intelligence that any religious group would have is merely a matter of tired old rhetoric.

The difficulty with such a study, were one ever to be attempted, would be the disagreement about who really is a Christian and who is not. Anyone can claim to be a Christian, but not everyone is one. If one could verify that one has found a significant number of genuine Christians for such a study, it wouldn't turn out results worthy of notice. Once again, the frequent claim that Christians are less intelligent than non-Christians is just distracting rhetoric.

Answer 3

Maam,

Please do not choose my answer as the best, because I will not in any way attempt to prove to you that Christians have a lower IQ.

You see, I do not consider myself extremely intelligent, but I do not consider myself an idiot either. I am a born again Christian, and pastor of a church.

Please, do not take this the wrong way, because I agree with you 100%. It does not take a high IQ to get into heaven. As a matter of fact, the Bible tells us not to lean unto our own understanding. What it does take is faith in the grace freely offered by God through his Son Jesus Christ.

So, don't let those who call Christians uneducated or stupid get under your skin, we know far better than that. Remember, pray for them, that God will convince them that their is something far better than being an intellectual giant.

Signed,
The Old Time Preacher,
([e-mail])

Answer 4

I don't think you Christians have a lower IQ than us unbelievers... I mean there are some unbelieving geniuses, and some very dumb Christians. But the other way round also applies.

Answer 5

There are genius christians and moron christians, just as there are genius atheists and moron atheists.

However, it is true that education correlates with atheism. The percentage of atheists is much higher among people with graduate degrees than among high school dropouts.

Answer 6

Sorry, but I can't help you there... Well, maybe if you were NICER!!! I do have access to all the scholarly journals in the psychology department. If your little study exists, I'm sure it's in there. And if it's not in there, then it's not a valid or reputable study. So it's up to you.

Answer 7

Since you insist on asking twice, I guess I have to answer twice. Don't ask a third time. I'll be in bed asleep if you do.

Drawn from the Godless Science website:

"Is it more logical to be a Christian? Is religion the natural choice of a smart person familiar with more of the evidence? Not according to a broad consensus of studies on IQ and religiosity. These studies have consistently found that the lower the IQ score, the more likely a person is to be religious.


STUDIES OF STUDENTS

1. Thomas Howells, 1927
Study of 461 students showed religiously conservative students "are, in general, relatively inferior in intellectual ability."

2. Hilding Carlsojn, 1933
Study of 215 students showed that "there is a tendency for the more intelligent undergraduate to be sympathetic toward… atheism."

3. Abraham Franzblau, 1934
Confirming Howells and Carlson, tested 354 Jewish children, aged 10-16. Found a negative correlation between religiosity and IQ as measured by the Terman intelligence test.

4. Thomas Symington, 1935
Tested 400 young people in colleges and church groups. He reported, "There is a constant positive relation in all the groups between liberal religious thinking and mental ability… There is also a constant positive relation between liberal scores and intelligence…"

5. Vernon Jones, 1938
Tested 381 students, concluding "a slight tendency for intelligence and liberal attitudes to go together."

6. A. R. Gilliland, 1940
At variance with all other studies, found "little or no relationship between intelligence and attitude toward god."

7. Donald Gragg, 1942
Reported an inverse correlation between 100 ACE freshman test scores and Thurstone "reality of god" scores.

8. Brown and Love, 1951
At the University of Denver, tested 613 male and female students. The mean test scores of non-believers was 119 points, and for believers it was 100. The non-believers ranked in the 80th percentile, and believers in the 50th. Their findings "strongly corroborate those of Howells."

9. Michael Argyle, 1958
Concluded that "although intelligent children grasp religious concepts earlier, they are also the first to doubt the truth of religion, and intelligent students are much less likely to accept orthodox beliefs."

10. Jeffrey Hadden, 1963
Found no correlation between intelligence and grades. This was an anomalous finding, since GPA corresponds closely with intelligence. Other factors may have influenced the results at the University of Wisconsin.

11. Young, Dustin and Holtzman, 1966
Average religiosity decreased as GPA rose.

12. James Trent, 1967
Polled 1400 college seniors. Found little difference, but high-ability students in his sample group were over-represented.

13. C. Plant and E. Minium, 1967
The more intelligent students were less religious, both before entering college and after 2 years of college.

14. Robert Wuthnow, 1978
Of 532 students, 37 percent of Christians, 58 percent of apostates, and 53 percent of non-religious scored above average on SATs.

15. Hastings and Hoge, 1967, 1974
Polled 200 college students and found no significant correlations.

16. Norman Poythress, 1975
Mean SATs for strongly anti-religious (1148), moderately anti-religious (1119), slightly anti-religious (1108), and religious (1022).

17. Wiebe and Fleck, 1980
Studied 158 male and female Canadian university students. They reported "nonreligious S's tended to be strongly intelligent" and "more intelligent than religious S's."

Conclusion

The consensus here is clear: more intelligent people tend not to believe in religion. And this observation is given added force when you consider that the above studies span a broad range of time, subjects and methodologies, and yet arrive at the same conclusion.

This is the result even when the researchers are Christian conservatives themselves.

Why does this correlation exist? The first answer that comes to mind is that religious beliefs tend to be more illogical or incoherent than secular beliefs, and intelligent people tend to recognize that more quickly. But this explanation will surely be rejected by religious people, who will seek other explanations and rationalizations.

A possible counter-argument is that intelligent people tend to be more successful than others. The lure of worldly success and materialism draws many of these intellectually gifted individuals away from God. After all, who needs God when you (apparently) are making it on your own?

However, this argument does not withstand closer scrutiny. Most of the studies outlined above describe the religious attitudes of students, who have yet to enter the working world, much less succeed in it. Some might then argue that the most intelligent students are nonetheless succeeding in school. But "success" in school (for those who may have forgotten!) is more measured in terms of popularity, sports, physical attractiveness, personality, clothes, etc. Grades are but one of many measures of success in a young person's life -- one that is increasingly becoming less important, as many social critics point out.

Answer 8

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Me?
Yeah you.
Listen, now is the Time to Throw in a 50 cent word, just to Show them how Intelligent you are.
Yeah. hahaha, they will never guess how Stupid I am. Thanks, buddy!






Entalenagent

Hey, i might be alittle stupid, but i am not lost.
i know Who Jesus is.

Answer 9

a group of godless liberal scientists are gathering the data RIGHT NOW

Answer 10

A person's intelligence level has nothing to do with them being a christian or not.