http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=618
2007-12-21 07:26:08 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't make this up...See the link above for the data.
2007-12-21 07:34:19 · update #1
most believers use their bibles as an excuse not to think. they find the answers to complex moral issues prefabricated in their magic book, and they reassure themselves that they need not study since god values devotion above all else.
a brain that is never used withers.
like any muscle.
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cl richardson's post - for example - is a gem.
patient: 'doctor, this test says i have an iq of 82. i don't understand it.'
doctor:' with an iq of 82, what did you expect?'
2007-12-21 07:30:49 · answer #1 · answered by synopsis 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
See the study...
Frank Sulloway of MIT and Michael Shermer of California State University conducted a study which found in their polling sample of "credentialed" U.S. adults (12% had Ph.Ds and 62% were college graduates) 64% believed in God, and there was a correlation indicating that religious conviction diminished with education level.
For further information, see the research of Petty & Cacioppo into Elaboration Likelihood Model.
Shermer, Michael (1999). How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God. New York: William H Freeman, pp76–79. ISBN 071673561X
2007-12-21 07:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that's an interesting poll... and also one quite specific to the cultural and educational milieu of the early twenty first century United States of America, and only in that singular country and time.
To extrapolate more than that.... would be uneducated.
2007-12-21 07:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've talked about religion and metaphysics with a lot of smart people (Mensa, college), and my impression was that smart people tend to be more unorthodox in their beliefs than dumb people. Not necessarily less religious, but more likely to think for themselves when it comes to religious matters--they're more likely to be atheists, but also more likely to have unconventional religious beliefs as well...
2007-12-21 07:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who knows?
I'm starting my second college semester in January and I plan on getting four Bachelors(in four foreign languages) and maybe Masters...I dunno.
But I have taken religion 101 and am taking 102 next semester. I plan on being religious all my life, regardless of my education level.
2007-12-21 07:30:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think you are entirely right about that. It's not the education level that is the issue. Religion has their scholars, doctors etc. It's the lack of balanced education that breeds the ignorance.
2007-12-21 07:32:46 · answer #6 · answered by Blame Amy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not true! But - anyone with even half a brain can see that this religious nonsense is exactly that!
It doesn't take a certificate to get real and reject this rubbish!
2007-12-21 07:42:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Generally I think it's true.
But don't presume too much. I know plenty of well-educated AND intelligent believers.
2007-12-21 07:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by David Carrington Jr. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Through education people learn to think critically and eventually (hopefully) for themselves.
2007-12-21 07:29:40 · answer #9 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
A mind trained to think logically and rationally.
2007-12-21 07:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Godless AM™ VT 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋