In respected polls, 39 out of 43 showed a positive correlation between intelligence a

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

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Atheism = Agnosticism = Ignoramus(Latin translation) You do the math!

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Well, when you're in regular dialog with the creator of the universe, you don't need intelligence -- you're surrounding yourself with smart God(s).

Which kind of intelligence do you mean?

There is academic, emotional, spatial, lateral and cognitive intelligence.

Intelligence of what? an IQ of 85?

Atheists - Made great advances to society

Muslims - Made great advances to society (though 1% of 1.9 billion Muslims are regressing)

All other things besides Christianity - Made great advances to society.

Christians - Some Christians made great advances to society, but they would've been considered non-practicing.

it just confirms what some of us already know

"A man has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such a thing, for no ordinary man can be such a fool!" - Freidrich Von Hayek
Because "intelligent" people, using the scientific method, see no "proof" (Guess Einstein was a fool?), and have to much pressure by that diploma shoved up their rectum against their brain to think, because FAITH is not about "proof", if you have absolute proof that God exists, it would not be a "FAITH" at all, it would be obedient people worship ping in terror, not choosing to believe, choosing love, because they "FEEL" it is right. Without choice, without faith, without love, without freedom, life is hell.

I copied this line from your link, I wonder if you happened to comprehend it's meaning.

"for all were imperfect,"

w00t w00t. Here's a video that confirms this too. It's pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I5V9JPzMxY

So making fun of people for being religious is just like making fun of someone for being less intelligent than you. Maybe I should rethink my ways? ...Nawww

Religions, by definition, don't deal with measurable
outcomes. So, folks who spend time with religion may
be moral and happy, but not have an edge on IQ.

I think it takes some power to get away from religious programing. I like the part about scientists being less religious then society.(that tells you something)

I have spoken with many "intelligent" people who are murderers, thieves, drug addicts, and drug pushers. Knowing how incredibly high their IQs were, did not lead me to believe the things they believed or do the things they do......

I learned a long time ago that any poll can be made to have any results

Correlation doesn't show causation.

Unfortunately this correlation might of occurred because of the populations of atheism in comparisons to Christianity. Or it could just mean that you have to reach a certain intelligence threshold to deny god. *shrugs* Any idiot can say god did it.

People with great intelligence become accustomed to understanding everything, accustomed to most things seeming transparent and to everything being logical and capable of a proof (well at least eventually).

Religion is faith based and the lack of hard proof and logical explanation is perplexing presenting a barrier for people of high intelligence who are used to understanding almost everything.

No matter how smart a human is we cannot understand something that is not fully revealed yet and which seems to operate outside the bounds of our universe and is able to somehow pierce the continuum.