Erroneous scientific studies: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists

[PetriFB]

In America Rochester's university has been made scientific studies and analysis led by Professor Miron Zuckerman, which claims that religious people are less intelligent than non-believers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review published a summary for this scientific study. When I researched this study, so on my mind arose many thoughts that prove this scientific study as the provocation of atheism in which they show their contempt to the certain group of the people. On my writing, I also bring out some thoughts about the article of Knoxnews.

The whole article is in my site but can't post it.

 

[hobelim]

In America Rochester's university has been made scientific studies and analysis led by Professor Miron Zuckerman, which claims that religious people are less intelligent than non-believers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review published a summary for this scientific study. When I researched this study, so on my mind arose many thoughts that prove this scientific study as the provocation of atheism in which they show their contempt to the certain group of the people. On my writing, I also bring out some thoughts about the article of Knoxnews.

The whole article is in my site but can't post it.

Maybe you should have asked a non believer for help?

 

[TheOldSchool]

That study is complete partisan bullshit. It's completely illogical. Nothing more than a bunch of atheists on their high horses.

P.S. hobelim: I chuckled

 

[waltky]

Are Atheists Driving People Toward Christianity?...

The Richard Dawkins effect: Could the atheist's rants against Christianity actually be winning people to it?
16 April 2014 ~ One academic writes of how reading Dawkins' The God Delusion actually converted her to Catholicism

An interesting article appeared on the Dead Philosophers Society a few weeks ago from an academic who shares that reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion actually led to her conversion. Judith R Babarsky, an academic on the faculty at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, says she was recommended the bestseller by her eldest stepdaughter. Babarsky did, it appears, already have some kind of faith in one God but regarded it as "unexamined" until she read the bestseller. Having been initially "intrigued" by the blurb on The God Delusion, she goes on to say she "barely made it through a third of the book". There were, she writes, "no cogent arguments" for or against the existence of God. Instead what she discovered were statements about Jesus that were "so ill-informed that I resolved to actually learn something about Jesus Christ". "Truthfully, I found the book a waste of my time," she writes.

But perhaps a waste of time that wasn't such a waste after all as it was reading Dawkins' book that pushed her to delve into the issues she says were "holding me back from a full commitment to faith". She doesn't say what those issues are exactly beyond a need to find a sound intellectual basis for faith in Jesus Christ. "I realized I was no better than Dawkins. I was basing my faith on inner feelings and a perceived sense of my world, having never thought much deeper than surface level ... In reading to refute Dawkins as well as educate myself and find answers to questions, I discovered the God-man Jesus Christ." But her search didn't end there as she delved into Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth and this in turn solidified her conclusions that faith in a supernatural God who came to earth in the form of Jesus Christ to atone for mankind's sin does indeed make sense, even though it cannot be proven by scientific method. "I believe that, while science has many valuable insights to offer us, it is not the final word," she says.

Professor Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion

Today she's a happy Catholic - admitting that it resonates with her more emotionally and intellectually than "watered down" Protestantism. "If anyone had told me five years earlier that I would one day become Catholic, I honestly would have laughed in their face ... And had my stepdaughter not recommended that I read The God Delusion I might never have gone on to pursue my own honest and intellectual search for the meaning of my life. I would still be lost and wandering with only a convenient and partial faith," she writes. Babarsky's conversion story has been picked up by Telegraph columnist Damian Thompson who shares his own story in a hilarious tongue-in-cheek piece on it in which he shares his own story of an old schoolfriend, Michael, who had been an atheist for decades until he read The God Delusion.

When Michael called up Thompson to tell him he'd returned to the Catholic fold, he admitted to being a huge admirer of Dawkins the biologist. "But then I read The God Delusion and it was ... total crap. So bad that I started questioning my own faith," Michael shared. Thompson wonders whether it isn't some covert operation by a secretly Christian Dawkins to win people to the faith he spews vitriol on in public. "If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might conclude that Prof Dawkins secretly converted to Christianity decades ago, and then asked himself: 'How can I best win souls? By straightforward argument, or by turning myself from a respected academic into a comic figure fulminating against religion like a fruitcake at Speakers' Corner, thereby discrediting atheism?'" We can only wonder how many other former atheists have given up on their anti-God convictions upon closer inspection of Professor Dawkins's views?

The Richard Dawkins effect: Could the atheist's rants against Christianity actually be winning people to it? | Christian News on Christian Today

Granny says, "Dat's right - if God got the power to turn a curse into a blessin', den he got the power to make atheists advocates fer Jesus."

 

[amrchaos]

Hey--extremism by some believers can drive people away from them....
Extremism by non-believers can drive people away from.

Bottom line--extremists drive people away from them.

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

Hey--extremism by some believers can drive people away from them....
Extremism by non-believers can drive people away from.

Bottom line--extremists drive people away from them.

Extremism is in the eye of the beholder, and in my experience, those who talk about so-called extremism the most don't have much of an eye.

 

[Avatar4321]

Intelligent people don't need a survey to tell them they are intelligent. They just are.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The OP "Erroneous scientific studies: Religious people are less intelligent than atheists" shows how stupid atheists truly are: they are the secular equivalent in lack of intelligence to some of our social cons.

 

[PostmodernProph]

this board proves otherwise.....

 

[daws101]

Religious people are less intelligent than atheists, according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades - Science - News - The Independent

here's the article decide for yourselves...


According to the study entitled, 'The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations', published in the 'Personality and Social Psychology Review', even during early years the more intelligent a child is the more likely it would be to turn away from religion.

In old age above average intelligence people are less likely to believe, the researchers also found.

One of the studies used in Zuckerman's paper was a life-long analysis of the beliefs of 1,500 gifted children with with IQs over 135.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Counter productive to keep saying "I'm smarter than you are" over and over again.

I think its much more complicated than that.

OTOH, I can't begin to guess why some people need to believe in invisible magic sky fairies. I have no frikken clue.

But, if that's what they need and as long they don't try to force me to believe the same thing, don't try to force it into our schools and govt buildings, its no skin off my nose.

 

[emilynghiem]

In America Rochester's university has been made scientific studies and analysis led by Professor Miron Zuckerman, which claims that religious people are less intelligent than non-believers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review published a summary for this scientific study. When I researched this study, so on my mind arose many thoughts that prove this scientific study as the provocation of atheism in which they show their contempt to the certain group of the people. On my writing, I also bring out some thoughts about the article of Knoxnews.

The whole article is in my site but can't post it.

I've found it is not clear cut how to label people as "one or the other"
when there is a broad spectrum of what it really means to believe or not.

What is really disturbing is finding out that some nontheists are actually more consistent as "believers" in justice or truth or the good in humanity (which is what religions use symbols to represent); while many labeled as "believers" really DON'T have faith that there is one God or one truth universally including all humanity (if they believe there are people "outside" their God or following a "different God" then that's not faith in one universal God for all people).

So this labeling of who is a "believer" or not (based on EXTERNAL factors) is also misleading when I have found this to be relative.

Just because people CLAIM they believe or don't believe
isn't enough to assess their real status on the spectrum.

I have found nontheists who turned out to be faithful believers in what God/Jesus means
(even though they didn't call it that and some even claim not to believe), and found "believers" whose faith was based on false conditions and as problematic as nonbelievers.