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"Religious people tend to be smarter"
RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 3, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(December 3, 2015 at 3:26 pm)wallym Wrote: An interesting thing with science, is that it doesn't matter 99% of the time.  We're a very specialized culture.  Ben Carson believes all sorts of nonsense, and he was a Brain Surgeon.  

I believe in evolution.  What does that do for me?  It has no practical value.  That piece of "smartness" is more or less worthless.

Actually, it helps you on a day-to day basis. When you understand how evolution works, you understand why you need to complete your prescription of antibiotics even though you feel healthy with twelve pills still in the bottle. Ever hear that phrase, "the relapse is always worse"? There's a reason for it, and that reason is evolution.

And evolution is not the subject of belief.  As a fact, it is only subject to acceptance or rejection.

You don't really need to understand evolution to do this.  You just have to obey your doctor's directions.
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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 3, 2015 at 7:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(December 3, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Actually, it helps you on a day-to day basis. When you understand how evolution works, you understand why you need to complete your prescription of antibiotics even though you feel healthy with twelve pills still in the bottle. Ever hear that phrase, "the relapse is always worse"? There's a reason for it, and that reason is evolution.

And evolution is not the subject of belief.  As a fact, it is only subject to acceptance or rejection.

You don't really need to understand evolution to do this.  You just have to obey your doctor's directions.

Oh, please, you really expect me to listen to an educated person?!

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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 1, 2015 at 10:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(December 1, 2015 at 8:01 pm)wallym Wrote: I wonder if the subconscious of religious people knows that they benefit from their belief, and so they don't put a lot thought into it.

They say that intelligent people are more easily hypnotized, because they have a superior power of imagination.  I find it quite easy to find that intelligent people can easily be religious, because the world view of an intelligent person is more complex, and therefore more full of mystery, than that of a stupid person.  This means more chance for superstition, not less-- as easily revealed by my Beagle's apparent lack of belief in God.

Cheese, he believes in.  God, not so much.

Problem with that kind of idea is that the god meme is one that precludes imagination and deep thinking. When you fall back on god to explain things you currently don't understand you are utilising neither intelligence nor imagination.
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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:
(December 1, 2015 at 10:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: They say that intelligent people are more easily hypnotized, because they have a superior power of imagination.  I find it quite easy to find that intelligent people can easily be religious, because the world view of an intelligent person is more complex, and therefore more full of mystery, than that of a stupid person.  This means more chance for superstition, not less-- as easily revealed by my Beagle's apparent lack of belief in God.

Cheese, he believes in.  God, not so much.

Problem with that kind of idea is that the god meme is one that precludes imagination and deep thinking. When you fall back on god to explain things you currently don't understand you are utilising neither intelligence nor imagination.

I dunno, dude.  I've read the Bible, and it's pretty damn imaginative.  So are the interpretations of many Christians that allow them to enjoy all their favorite activities while still pretending they are actually good Christians. What's lazier, really: accepting observable reality, or denying most of it and sticking to a fairy tale instead, despite being literally immersed in a culture capable of providing evidence against your position with 5 seconds of typing?
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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 4, 2015 at 9:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote: What's lazier, really: accepting observable reality, or denying most of it and sticking to a fairy tale instead, despite being literally immersed in a culture capable of providing evidence against your position with 5 seconds of typing?

Fairy tale, definitely. You're just simply accepting without demur what somebody else is telling you, no investigation, no study, no discovery involved.
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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 3, 2015 at 2:00 am)pool Wrote: Depends on how one would define smartness, I guess.

The definition of being smart is agreeing with me on every point. Big Grin



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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 5, 2015 at 4:38 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(December 3, 2015 at 2:00 am)pool Wrote: Depends on how one would define smartness, I guess.

The definition of being smart is agreeing with me on every point. Big Grin

I categorically disagree with that statement.
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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(December 5, 2015 at 8:38 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(December 5, 2015 at 4:38 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The definition of being smart is agreeing with me on every point. Big Grin

I categorically disagree with that statement.

That's coz you stoopid.



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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
(September 26, 2015 at 12:26 am)Heat Wrote: So I read this on a site a while back and was wondering if there is any validity to it.

It's perfectly plausible.

I've given my answer in my thread.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK

The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK


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RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
Where in the thread?
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