RE: Atheists and suicide
June 10, 2012 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2012 at 12:37 pm by StatCrux.)
(June 10, 2012 at 11:28 am)genkaus Wrote:(June 10, 2012 at 11:04 am)StatCrux Wrote: William Craig isn't saying philosophy is equal to intellectualism, he's showing that a large number of philosophy professors (who could be considered as intellectual) are also Christian, to counter the assertion that modern universities and the intellectuals are mainly atheist. You can get very clever and very dumb atheists and Christians.
Firstly, by confining the examples of intellectualism to philosophers, even though the other guy explicitly commented on other fields, he is implicitly equating the two.
Secondly, unless he gives percentage figures about rate of atheism among intellectuals compared to that in layman population, these examples are meaningless.
The atheist chap mentions ayer, quine and russell, all philosophers. All that Craig is showing is that to try and imply (as the atheist does) that most of the modern intelligentsia are atheists is refuted by the sheer number of Christian philosophy professors in modern prestigious universities. He lists names because the ones the atheist mentions are dead, "he's dead too!"
Tempus Wrote:higher intelligence is correlated with atheism
atheism correlates positively with intelligence.
The first statement is refuted by the existence of Christians with higher intelligence ( Philosophy professors) It implies atheism only.
The second statement is how you changed your wording.
