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Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 2:53 am
Does it worry any theists that atheists have higher IQ's? I know this does not mean that religious people are dumber than atheists, but it does point to a correlation between intelligence and religiosity that needs to be discussed.
If I was believed in god and was faced with this fact, I would seriously question whether or not the smarter people know better when it comes to a god's existence. I didn't want to raise any assumptions, I just wanted to here what the resident theists had to say.
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 2:55 am
Theists think they are smart. They "think" that.
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 3:02 am
(August 5, 2015 at 2:55 am)Kitan Wrote: Theists think they are smart. They "think" that.
No, they know it. Just like they know God is real.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 3:03 am
Universalists and reform jews are smarter than atheists according to wikipedia
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 3:03 am
I'm around the 140 range with my IQ. I'm average.
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 3:22 am
Universalists are probably pretty smart for the three years or so they spend there, but they probably forget a lot of it in later years.
There's a difference between being smart and being the guy balanced on the fence ready to dive into the neighbour's garden.
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RE: Higher IQ's
August 5, 2015 at 3:25 am
That's not the difference, Rob.
Smart people automatically have problems to compensate for being smart.
It's strange, really.
Studies show that prodigies are brilliant, high IQs, but that nature afflicted them with some other problem, usually a social one.
Smart people are equally afflicted, but to a lesser degree.
I consider myself among the smart range.
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