Atheism and IQ

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Permalink Reply by Chris G on January 19, 2012 at 7:39am

Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid

Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on January 19, 2012 at 9:58am

Jabal Kawanja

First a welcome. I would like more Asian and African atheists to participate in discussions here to make them more interesting than they presently are.

A person needs to be better intellectual to be an atheist but there is no direct relation between high IQ and being intellectual. Being intelligent and being an intellectual is not one and the same. It is an accepted fact that a highly intellectual persom need not have high IQ. An intellectual is a rational thinker, no more, no less.

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on January 19, 2012 at 2:36pm

Don't start bragging.

More college graduates than others fell for the government's drumbeating for the war in Viet Nam.

From a 1920s conference to another in the 1980s, specialists reported no progress in knowing what intelligence is.

Some college professors say IQ is a number you get after you take an IQ test.

I was in Mensa for a while and concluded that most of the men at meetings were socially retarded. One Mensa woman told me the men she met there knew some very clever ways to be cruel. I quit Mensa.

Permalink Reply by dr kellie on January 19, 2012 at 3:10pm

You hit that nail on the head. 

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on January 19, 2012 at 3:26pm

I'm not a logician but I'm seeing a definitional problem, or more likely a grudge, there.

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on January 19, 2012 at 4:04pm

Okay, a grudge.

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on January 19, 2012 at 5:34pm

You're excused. Enjoy.

Permalink Reply by Jim DePaulo on April 1, 2012 at 12:23pm

I qualified for membership based on my GRE and the Mensa IQ test. I was invited and went to a meeting and met the largest group of pretentious assholes in one place than I had previously experienced. There was no way I would want to identify with that group.

Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on April 1, 2012 at 2:08pm

The same here. The Mensa members were in love with their own intelligence but had no idea what to do with it - I was so happy that I had taken a seat near the exit!

Permalink Reply by Rob van Senten on January 19, 2012 at 5:35pm

I don't know whether a higher IQ and atheism are causally linked, sure in countries where theism is the norm it might be that atheists tend to be higher educated and perhaps above average in regards to intelligence yet in countries where many people are not raised religiously there does not really seem to be a link between IQ and religious belief. 

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on January 19, 2012 at 6:05pm

I agree with Rob here.

Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on January 20, 2012 at 6:55am

Rob van Senten

There is really no connection between atheism and IQ. If all atheists are to take an IQ test, we are certain to find a wide range of IQ figures. Religion and god are rather unimaginative ideas and discovering them to be so does not need an IQ of Einstein.

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