(December 20, 2008 at 5:34 pm)Meatball Wrote: Richard Dawkins is a smart man.
Richard Dawkins is an atheist.
Therefore, atheists are smart people.
It's not a fallacy when it's been proven true.
Quote:Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/lib...elligence/
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/2010/02...-faithful/
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
