Religious people are less intelligent than atheists

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I'm not going to chase your herring, so I'll just say that you're completely off the point. Nobody's saying that something which can't be perceived doesn't exist; simply that without any indication that a thing might exist, it's irrational to posit the existence of one. People who suggested the existence of the thing that would turn out to be the Higgs boson before there was a reason to suspect it would still have been guessing. They merely proved to be accurate.

That's my stance on the proposition of gods. Compound that with the logical and linguistic acrobatics that are generally offered in lieu of evidence, multiplied by all the excuses for why we shouldn't even expect evidence, and you start to get a handle on the scale of the problem.

I can understand the scale of the problem that you are talking about, the lack of what some would call empirical evidence, or peer reviewed papers, 
so let's say that religious people are delusional. Does that mean that they are not intelligent, or not as intelligent as the ones that aren't delusional? 

We both know that highly intelligent people can be deluded, but it doesn't remove their intelligence, it just misdirects it, doesn't it?

So now we may also conclude that intelligent atheists can be deluded, no?

Well, you would rather think that religious people are delusional. And I'd have to agree with you, religions are filled with delusions/lies. So are atheists on another level.

The Bible exposes both groups. And there is the clanger for someone who doesn't have a proper knowledge of the Bible, because they associate religious conundrums with it.

And I get what you are saying, that the ideas of God etc come from the Bible, which is nonsense, as far as you are concerned, because of the evidence for evolution, and other scientific treatises.

And you can't see how going against popular science can have anything to do with truth/reality, because the world survives by scientific inventions and discoveries. Here again, the 60% of people who believe in God, work in scientific areas which benefit the world. Scientific thinking isn't exclusive to atheists, it's global.
There's a great deal of practical science, without any atheistic ideas.

And if we look at the true scientific method, it does not exclude God at all, and it doesn't jump to atheistic conclusions.