Atheist and IQ's

[abaris]

I've just wasted a little time looking at IQ and atheism. I'd love to say atheists were more intelligent. It would be such a simple explanation, and emotionally satisfying too. But, studies concerning atheism and IQ are less than definitive. It appears that there is a slight, but very slight edge in favor of atheism. I've also discovered that the religious may have a slight mental health advantage.

Mere intelligence, as has been observed, says virtuall nothing. OK, if you're below 60, you probably don't perform very well in real life, but that's about all. Education is much more important and among fundamentalists of any kind of religion, education isn't highly valued. Willful ignorance seems to be the bigger problem than lacking intelligence.

I wouldn't call most christians, who visit here, without naming names, idiots. But I'm ready to call them ignorant, since the choose to ignore and to twist facts that don't correlate with their religious views.