Do the religious have lower IQ's compared to the non-religious?

Question

as compared to agnostics, atheists, or just apostates?

Answer 1

I doubt it. There is a long tradition of Christian intellectualism (just ask the Jesuits). Read contemporary theological commentators like Spong and Borg and try to suggest that they're in possession of low IQs. Personally, I'm religious and hold a doctorate, something not generally awarded to idiots. Of course, I also know some very intelligent atheists...as well as a few prize-winning morons of that persusion. There are both bright and ignorant people from both camps, believing and non-believing.

Answer 2

In a survey of undergraduates in three states more than half said they were creationists and one-third or more believed in ghosts, communication with the dead, extraterrestrials, aliens, Big Foot, etc. The prevalence of such pseudoscientific beliefs is an indictment of current science-education practices, which seem less effective than education via supermarket tabloids. The survey also revealed that those who accepted creationism were less likely to read books and had lower grade-point averages than the noncreationists. What that may mean is not altogether clear, but at the least it suggests an anti-intellectual suspicion of knowledge on the part of those sympathetic to creationism.

Answer 3

There is actually a website which tries to argue that non-religious people are smarter than religious people, and that this should be a valid criterion for determining the truth! This is such an amusing argument, because to argue it is to demonstrate the opposite of the case. It's really just an appeal to authority, and is aimed at bolstering the fragile ego of certain atheist types, and to dismiss thinking so that one need not engage in such a messy pursuit.
http://www.doxa.ws/other/smarter.html
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Answer 4

No.That is one of the biggest misconceptions about religious beliefs.Many extremely intelligent people believe in a higher power,and they are a lot smarter than the average person on the street.

Answer 5

Ive never heard of a research that separates people like that.

But looking at myself (IQ:146) I can definitely tell you...its a YES!

<---is religiously inclined

Answer 6

very much so....

nearly 60% of Theist College Students theorize that Mankind made the dinosaurs go extinct.

mankind = 7 million years ago(roughly)

dinosaurs=(went extinct 250 million years ago)


That should be compelling evidence, yet still 60% think man and beast existed together. Without the bible we would have much more knowledge of things such as this.

Answer 7

once you stand earlier God on Judgement day, tell HIM how clever you're and how plenty you have finished, and regardless of else you have gotten summed up from all your learn and all your understanding gatherings. you spot all the neatest maximum smart human beings interior the previous, the place are they and you spot they don't seem to be immortal? You tell me the place your IQ stands, being clever would not make you to any extent further effective in anyones eyes, otherwise why? you're able to instruct which you're on an smart point to all people who you think of are going to care while you're smart and you in case you have severe IQ levels. To me you would be going to HELL alongside with all the non secular human beings, through fact Jesus HIMSELF argued with the non secular human beings, who finally killed Jesus interior the top and hung HIM on the bypass. To me you and your IQ and your religiousity friends are on your way at a phenominal fee of velocity to HELL. I pray which you repent and ask Jesus back into your heart and shop you from dying, Hell and the Grave. You wanna be clever and function a get carry of a dynamic ample of understanding, provide your existence to Jesus and you have gotten organic understanding

Answer 8

i don't believe .........
Religion makes any difference to IQ
I get what u want to say.

may be,
for particular point,
they don't have logic & atheists or .......
can have.........
but it doesn't mean they have lower IQ.

Answer 9

It makes it easier to believe.

Answer 10

they just choose to believe in something