(August 5, 2015 at 9:47 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 9:01 pm)Jenny A Wrote: You don't have 63, but you do have an average of 63. I wish we could see more in your link than just the abstract so we might know if it meant anything.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to believe that intelligence was the deciding factor and I'm atheist because I'm a genius, or at least above average. But I don't believe it. Skepticism and intelligent are not the same thing. And intelligence can be used to rationalize all sorts of beliefs.
The whole question does not matter. That deals with averages, not individual intelligence. You cannot know someone's beliefs about whether there is a god or not based solely on IQ score. You can make a guess, based on averages, but it is still just a guess and you will be wrong with some frequency.
BINGO we have a winner. Sorry I didn't say myself.
The thing is that whether we are talking differences in intelligence or strength between sexes, races, or adherents to various beliefs, we're looking a overlapping curves. There will always be some men who are more empathetic than some women, some women who can lift more than some men, some black people who make more money than some white people, some atheists who are much less educated and have lessor IQ's than some fundamentalist Christians.
AND appeal to popularity, even popularity among the more intelligent remains a fallacy.
It still comes down to logic and evidence.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
