RE: Atheists and suicide
June 10, 2012 at 1:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2012 at 1:11 pm by StatCrux.)
(June 10, 2012 at 12:53 pm)Tempus Wrote: Nice try. Nothing in that first statement is exclusive and indeed I've stated on these forums before that being an atheist doesn't necessarily make someone intelligent, nor does being a theist make them stupid. You interpreted it meant only atheists can be intelligent or that all highly intelligent people are atheists which is not a position I hold (or have ever held). The reason the second statement includes "positively" is to be clearer; i.e., to say that the relationship is a positive one and not a negative one. The wording changed, the meaning did not. Regardless, I do agree I could've worded it more specifically, as I do in the latter statement.
higher intelligence is correlated with atheism
atheism correlates positively with intelligence.
If you say something IS correlated WITH something else, that implies exclusivity,
But to say, something correlates positively with something, doesn't.
Anyway the point is that atheists don't have any claims on intelligence over any other group, which is my position from the beginning.
