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Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 7:30 am
"Researchers claim their results show that supernatural beliefs correlated with “low systemizing, poor intuitive physics skills, poor mechanical ability, poor mental rotation, low school grades in mathematics and physics, poor common knowledge about physical and biological phenomena, intuitive and analytical thinking styles, and in particular, with assigning mentality to non-mental phenomena.”
Study authors Marjaana Lindeman and Annika Svedholm-Häkkinen suggest that, when people don’t understand the physical world, they tend to apply human characteristics to the wider universe, “resulting in belief in demons, gods, and other supernatural phenomena”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/...ld--study/
No shit! One look at religious people just on this forum is plain evidence for the study.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 7:39 am
Saw it the other day. This is no shit, but a rigorous study nonetheless.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 7:59 am
Makes sense. I know I had no clue what evolution really was (back when I was still a deluded Bible-believing Christian), and I didn't even know back then there was such a thing as quantum mechanics.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 8:05 am
The world needs ditch diggers too. Maybe prototypes for future deltas.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 1:02 pm
I know I was able to make much more sense of the world once I had thrown off the blinders of religion.
Quote:poor common knowledge about physical and biological phenomena,
You mean like conservative Christian politicians who claim that a woman can't get pregnant by being raped?
Quote:, and in particular, with assigning mentality to non-mental phenomena.
If I hear someone say "everything happens for a reason" one more time, I'm going to come unglued. And no, they don't mean that every event has a cause, they mean there's some intelligent reason that the almighty controller of the universe made this or that event happen.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 3, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Yeah, but what's the conclusion here? Are stupid people more likely to be religious or are religious people more likely to be stupid? There are definitely some exceptions to this, as well.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 4, 2016 at 11:34 am
The conclusion summed up religious people find science hard there fore gawd done it.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 4, 2016 at 11:35 am
Quote:"Researchers claim their results show that supernatural beliefs correlated with “low systemizing, poor intuitive physics skills, poor mechanical ability, poor mental rotation, low school grades in mathematics and physics, poor common knowledge about physical and biological phenomena, intuitive and analytical thinking styles, and in particular, with assigning mentality to non-mental phenomena.”
Word salad. They are just stupid.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 4, 2016 at 1:09 pm
(November 3, 2016 at 7:59 am)Irrational Wrote: Makes sense. I know I had no clue what evolution really was (back when I was still a deluded Bible-believing Christian), and I didn't even know back then there was such a thing as quantum mechanics.
As a teen I went to a Pentecostal church, but somehow managed to avoid the "evolution is a lie" teachings. My best friend in the day was the pastor's 16 year old son. I remember one time he said something, I don't remember what exactly, which was an explicit statement that dinosaurs were just made up. In shock I responded that they had dinosaur skeletons in museums, to which he responded, "Really?" I was too young and naive at the time to see that for the warning sign that it was, that the religious choice of my parents was a choice of ignorance. Looking back at it today, 30 years later I actually find it more scary than amusing. Had I stayed religious I could be an ignoramus today, which I find particularly terrifying.
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RE: Religious people find it harder to understand the world – study
November 4, 2016 at 1:11 pm
And I'm proud to say that I've NEVER been religious 
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