Higher IQ's

[Pyrrho]

Does it worry any theists that atheists have higher IQ's? I know this does not mean that religious people are dumber than atheists, but it does point to a correlation between intelligence and religiosity that needs to be discussed.

If I was believed in god and was faced with this fact, I would seriously question whether or not the smarter people know better when it comes to a god's existence. I didn't want to raise any assumptions, I just wanted to here what the resident theists had to say.

I was not aware of the correlation when I was a theist, so it did not concern me.  Here, by the way, is a link to some info on this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosit...telligence

But if I had been aware of it, I would probably not care very much.  In order to care, one must trust that IQ scores are meaningful and relevant.  I have not seen sufficient evidence that IQ is as important as some say it is.

Also, there is a very important difference between average ability and abilities of particular individuals.  Given just the IQ score of someone, one cannot tell whether the person is an atheist or not.


Now, I do remember being told that more education was correlated with irreligion, and that bothered me as a Christian.  The excuse that was given was along the lines of atheist professors indoctrinating students, but I was not convinced by that at all.

Anyway, it was not a decisive factor in my deconversion at all.  It is not itself a proof of anything regarding the existence of god or the truth or falsity of religion.  So I don't think theists should be too worried about it.  What they should be worried about are all of the inconsistencies and absurdities of religious belief.