tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post741259679055070385..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: Are You Stupid?Maolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-89545394267083864872013-08-29T04:32:25.501-07:002013-08-29T04:32:25.501-07:00That is indeed an important point. As the author o...That is indeed an important point. As the author of the Christianity Today article points out, the results are also culturally limited, although they seem to have tried to find as wide-ranging research as they can. It's a flaw in the research but I don't think it makes it fall flat-- there does seem to be a slight correlation between higher intelligence and atheism. Of course, that tells us little in itself. There could be so many reasons. I think intelligence (and still more, wisdom) is something very difficult to measure.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-23725635906761202272013-08-29T03:38:40.125-07:002013-08-29T03:38:40.125-07:00The authors of the article miss an important point...The authors of the article miss an important point - the studies that they're 'mashing up' are temporally limited: that is, they only look at the very recent past. They're leaving out the fact that for most of history the majority of people, whatever their IQ, have been religious. Their assumptions that smart folk know better than to believe in the religions of fools falls flat because if it were true it would always have been true and not just true know. If their study proves anything, and I am far from accepting that it does, it is that the changing social circumstances of recent times have had an impact on religious belief.Paddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112119118958158131noreply@blogger.com