Thursday, April 09, 2009

Atheists: wicked smart

Anytime someone professes the intelligence of one group over another, you can be sure of one thing: they are dumb.

This study claims people with high IQs are less likely to believe in God. I recently heard this (from atheists). I think the line of thought goes something like this...I value intelligence, and I am self-selecting into an intelligent group, everyone else is stupid. I am not 100% sure that is how it goes, but I probably have the idea right.

I would like to point out, yes, atheists are really, really, wicked smart. According to this study, 21% of atheists believe in God (8% are "absolutely certain"). Yes, you read that right. As a group atheists are that smart.

I point them to the dictionary definition of atheist:

–noun, a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
There is a level of nuance there I don't think I will ever grasp.

2 Comments:

Blogger brando said...

Wow.

That's how most arguments that I'm in go.

There response is usually something like "It's merely rhetoric, therefore I'm right."

April 09, 2009 11:25 PM  
Blogger Timothy Richmond said...

I think Chemists are the smartest people on the planet, what do you think Michael?

April 20, 2009 7:01 PM  

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