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DurhamDawg
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 Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God' |
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quote from article:
"A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.
A separate poll in the 90s found only seven per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God.
Professor Lynn said most primary school children believed in God, but as they entered adolescence - and their intelligence increased - many started to have doubts.
He told Times Higher Education magazine: "Why should fewer academics believe in God than the general population? I believe it is simply a matter of the IQ. Academics have higher IQs than the general population. Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God...
Dr David Hardman, principal lecturer in learning development at London Metropolitan University, said: "It is very difficult to conduct true experiments that would explicate a causal relationship between IQ and religious belief. Nonetheless, there is evidence from other domains that higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt institutions."
link to full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-'less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html
Note: you may have to copy and paste the link (including the part that appears in black) into your browser window in order to get it to work. Not sure why it's acting funny here.....
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Qubilai
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: Re: Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God' |
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| DurhamDawg wrote: | quote from article:
"A separate poll in the 90s found only seven per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God."
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But why is that? Well, I came across this article last year which grabbed me:
http://www.physorg.com/news102700045.html
| Quote: | | The first systematic analysis in decades to examine the religious beliefs and practices of elite academics in the sciences supports the notion that science professors at top universities are less religious than the general population, but attributes this to a number of variables that have little to do with their study of science. |
One variable is the tendency of non-religious people to 'self select' into scientific professions with the obvious result that the percentage of people who believe in God will be lower in science than in other fields. |
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DurhamDawg
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:54 am Post subject: |
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Right....
Hard to establish a clear cause-and-effect relationship here, but there is at least an association between the two.
I think that the guy quoted at the end has it right -- that people who question and challenge established institutions tend to be more intelligent.
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