(August 22, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Not that it matters because we're saved through grace which washes all of that out of your system.
Woah, easy with the proselytising there! You're writing cheques that your evidence needs to cash. If it doesn't matter, why bring it up at all?
Let's not get carried away by this article. It's not a scientific paper or a serious study, it's a petulant blog post in a notoriously biased newspaper by a journalist nursing a sore burn over findings that suggest atheists as a species may have higher IQs than theists. Whether that is true or not is eminently arguable but only peripherally relevant to what this guy was trying to do. He even cites an American pro-religious conservative "think tank" as the source of his rant. Three guesses why he's not taken seriously.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
