The ultimate chicken or egg question?

Question

Does low IQ cause religion or does religion cause low IQ?
What do you think?
Here is some data on it.
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/iq_relig.htm

Answer 1

Lots of interesting data in your link. For those that are too lazy to go and look, here's just one ...

Interviewed 64 "eminent scientists, nearly all members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences or the American Philosophical Society. She reported that, while nearly all of them had religious parents and had attended Sunday school, 'now only three of these men are seriously active in church. A few others attend upon occasion, or even give some financial support to a church which they do not attend... All the others have long since dismissed religion as any guide to them, and the church plays no part in their lives...A few are militantly atheistic, but most are just not interested.'"

Enough said?

Answer 2

Low IQ comes from being too stubborn or thinking you are too intellectual to accept God. I am really tired of some of you people asking these stupid questions like you just ask. If you don't believe, fine, but don't try and make a mockery of this. I sometimes think there may be a special place in Hell (the hottest and most miserable) for people that make a mockery of Christ and his believers.

Answer 3

Lets see... 80% of this country has a low IQ? Maybe the 3% of this country that are Atheist are the dumb ones.

Answer 4

religion causes low IQ!

Answer 5

Both in endless feedback.

But low IQ was the initial cause.
Obviously.

Answer 6

The best tie that I have seen is to education, especially in science. Higher IQs are more likely to get educated. That teaches then to question and think and that can lead to a loss in faith.

So I think it is higher IQs cause education that causes people to lose religion.

Answer 7

My IQ is in the 130s.

I have a bachelors degree and a masters degree.

I am licensed by the Department of the Treasury.

I am a Christian.

Answer 8

I disagree. I know many scientists who are deeply religious, including myself. In fact, some of the most brilliant people I know are religious.

Answer 9

PAddEd JACkET
Joshua Kane and the padded jacket
1. Now the word of the TRONGOD came unto Joshua Kane the son of a NOBODY saying,
2. Arise, go to Zeroville, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
3. But Joshua Kane rose up to flee unto London North from the presence of the TRONGOD, and went down to Manor Hell; and he found a Bus going to Seven Sisters of Death: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Seven Sisters of Death from the presence of the TRONGOD.
4. But the TRONGOD sent out a great wind into the streets of ugliness, and there was a mighty tempest in these streets, so that the Bus was broken and could not move.
5. Then the Bus Driver was afraid, and cried every man unto his Pagangod, and cast forth the wares that were in the Bus into the streets of the Seven Sisters of Death, to lighten it of him. But Joshua was gone down into the sides of the Bus; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
6. So the Bus Driver came to him, and said unto him, what meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy TronGod, if so be that TronGod will think upon us, that we perish not.

Answer 10

I am an evolutionism and I agrees wit wat you think. Religion creating low IQ, the peoples who beleve in a god are simple stupidity. We, the once who believe into the evolusion are intelectualz and have hi IQus.