As a Christian, Jew or Musleum, how do you feel about that. Are you tempted to learn more and not be so.... dim?
http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%20religion.htm
2007-01-30 22:22:07 · 25 answers · asked by CJ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People used to believe that the sun went around the Earth because of two reasons:
1) That's how it appears from a fixed position on the Earth.
2) Religion told them that's what happens.
When Copernicus and Gallileo said the Earth went around the sun, it was deemed "heresy".
The strange thing is, this is not the only case where people didn't like the difficult answers; reputable scientists didn't like what didn't fit with their views. It took nearly 60 years for the fact of plate tectonics to be accepted by the scientific community.
Most of those who choose religion over reality are not necessarily stupid, but lazy. Learning and finding facts requires work, while ignorance is easy.
The reason that so many of the religious are less intelligent is because they are incapable of learning or discovering the difficult answers; they like the easy answers that they can comprehend, even when the easy answers are not true.
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2007-01-30 23:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i have self assurance those surveys should be slightly biased. obviously, faith is way a lot less stressful to go back for the era of than education, i.e. those who've no chance to be knowledgeable will nonetheless have the prospect to practice non secular beliefs. So for sure information are going to educate that faith is admired contained in the uneducated. What this survey fails to portray is the shown reality that even the properly knowledgeable practice their beliefs. many of the best people i understand are very non secular, besides as many of the dumbest. I even haven't any reason to have self assurance that IQ and religiosity correlate by any skill, structure, or style. and that is from an Atheist, so do not flow calling me biased.
2016-12-03 06:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm I was in college and graduated with a 3.9 .. To translate that for you . That's a high B .almost perfect ...
I Believe in GOD ....
Your theory is without prove or validity..Now I would say that a psychological IQ test would be in order in your case but there is a problem with those tests.. Depending on the mood,personality of the receptor, the test can lose its validity thus making it invalid.
IQ test have been proven to be incorrect and thus do not hold a substantial amount of truth to them..
It would be more opt for you to say that a person who has a low spiritual intelligence quotient , needs to be tempted to learn more and not be so dim witted.. That is also, the grammatically correct way to write the sentence that you so painfully tried to put together..
I Hope I was able to help you with your issue and please in the future, if you wish to argue a point ..back your info up with more than one lame web-site... There are medical papers out there that can prove/disprove your point .... Go find them dear...
2007-01-31 00:13:54 · answer #3 · answered by Joann 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My IQ: 179 (Stanford-Binet)
My wife's was tested in Berkeley (while they were studying her for her intelligence) at around 150 or so.
Belief in God is an acceptance that there are things you cannot test or subject to logic (any scientist or logician knows this as a basic part of their field), and that such things are explored by philosophy (when they are observable, or testable, but not both at the same time), or with belief systems (when they are not observable OR testable).
Without belief systems, an entire portion of reality is unexplorable. It's the kind of thinking that resulted in Socialist suppression of religion and the deaths of millions who wouldn't give up their faith in the name of Socialism.
It's also about one of the most UN-American (United States) sentiments that you can express. All of our founding fathers believed in God. Some very unintelligent people don't believe in God.
Their right. At least in the United States.
Are you tempted to learn more and understand the nature and limits of science and logic (the real kind, not "common sense")?
It might broaden your understanding of the nature of reality a bit, and you don't have to believe in God.
It's just a narrow life to only be able to accept or even contemplate what you can't directly perceive.
A lot of our most impressive scientific discoveries were based on belief, not facts. Men and women brave enough to imagine outside the narrow boxes of our senses.
Try it.
2007-01-30 23:09:40 · answer #4 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have an IQ of 140 and I believe in God more than anything.
Apparently, based on what I see, the people who like to think that they are smart go around saying that God isn't real. Dumbest thing I've ever seen. Actually, most of my friends are of superior IQ and we all believe in God.
I am not an American, but I was wondering why a lot of Americans don't believe in God? Don't you guys know your founding fathers believed in God and that your country was founded on Christianity? You wouldn't be the world power that you are now if it weren't for the Christian principles that your founding fathers applied. Please think about it.
2007-01-30 23:28:11 · answer #5 · answered by Aubrey T 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
On the contrary - I think the higher a person's IQ, the more likely they would be to believe in God - although not as some old guy with a long white beard sitting up in heaven or some such notion. I think that the more you understand about the universe, the more you see that you are in infinitesimal part of it, and the more you are able to see that you know only the most minute fragment of all there is TO know. I would never be so arrogant as to rule out the possibility of the existence of a God; in short, the more I know, the more I realize how much I DON'T know.
2007-01-30 22:32:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't kow where you get such information from. I don't think it would be from a formal study, based on scientific foundations, funded by a research body, and carried out by university professors.
My IQ according to tests is 186 which puts me in the top 1% of the population for intelligence. A lot of work has gone into proving that IQ is a nonsense and in fact only measures one type of intelligence - there are according to Gardener seven intelligences.
On top of this, these tests are centred on the cultural background on the society that you take them in i.e. if you know the axioms and pithy sayings of your culture you are more likely to do well - IQ tests on knowledge therefore are ludcrous, indeed you have to have a great grasp of the ENglish language and vocabulary to pass an IQ test with flying colours which is again a test of knowledge.
You argue for believers to learn - but learning doens't make you more intelligent, it gives you knowledge which you can apply you raw intellect to. Learning and intelligence are different entities entirely. So your question is, a basic premise, a nonsense. your understanding of IQ tests is a nonsense. And as someone who used to be atheist because of an undeveloped intellect, and then became a believer because of my superior intelligence i see you live in an antediluvian illusion. As Bacon says:
'A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, a depth in philosophy inclineth man's mind to religion'
2007-01-30 22:44:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No; that's not a fair assessment.
I have a very high IQ, and I'm what you'd call a "spiritual" person; more of a Deist than a traditional Christian.
I admit that I have seen evidence that very fervent "Christians" (the more conservative, "charismatic" ones), seem to prefer their answers in simple form; black and white, either-or. They don't like to question their faith. They prefer a simple certainty about most everything. It seems to me that its just easier for them than thinking.
But no, I wouldn't say that only "stupid" people believe in God. That wouldn't be accurate or polite.
2007-01-30 23:09:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The God Delusion says that of 43 studies done with regards to religion and IQ, and after a meta-analysis, 39 found an inverse relationship - Higher IQ correlated with less religious/not religious, or lower IQ correlated with more religious. Although there certainly are smart religious people, it's an interesting and considerable finding.
2007-01-30 22:29:16 · answer #9 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Well I would challenge the notion that people of lower iq believe in god more than others. But I think religion as a whole does have a stifling effect on learning and creativity. But not because of a lack of capability but because of a structure that frowns upon and optherwise demonizes anything new as "Satanic"
2007-01-30 22:28:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋