Comments on: Are intelligent people are less likely to believe in god?

By: David

David — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:17:06 +0000

“The people who ran this study obviously have never met or spoken with scholarly religious giants such as Neal A. Maxwell, Truman Madsen, C.S. Lewis, and millions more with IQs off the charts and solid religious faith!”

Respectfully, this is again a misunderstanding of the way science works. Just because there are a few people who score well on an IQ test and also call themselves religious does not disprove that intelligent tend not to be religious.

Let’s couple the findings of this study with the obvious statement that intelligent people more correctly understand the state of the universe (that seems to be what intelligence is), and you have a clear interpretation of these facts. No “I am superior to intelligent atheists because I can twist this study to say what I want” required.

By: John

John — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:06:28 +0000

As someone who has spent the majority of my life in academia (Bachelors degree, J.D., Masters, and completing my Ph.D.) I have known more than a few of my professors quite well. Several were atheists but the majority described themselves as Christian. Perhaps there is a signficant difference between the humanities and the “hard” sciences.

By: josephudo

josephudo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:22:30 +0000

When people think they are intelligent they are actually challenging the Universe which was made by God. The universe is so vast that no one can even predict or guess if it has an end. Even on Earth, there are so many things like microbes to macrobes that people know little to nothing about. And so, mankind has said so many things in this life and in the past that has been “proven” wrong by himself that he has a lot of nerve considering himself intelligent. The real stupidity of man is to arogantly fade away from the real God, Who needs not be arogant because he is intellilgent and everything else in the universe. and the Heavens.

By: russellcravens

russellcravens — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:02:16 +0000

check out Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy

I am ready it currently and find it to be really interesting.

It is related to your post.

By: Charlene Farber

Charlene Farber — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:58:31 +0000

i agree with using ‘education’ rather than ‘intelligence’. I know people much more intelligent than me, but no college education (i have some, mind you),

By: babaliciou5

babaliciou5 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:41:30 +0000

Please do check my ‘God’s Spoken’ post and the comments. Significantly.

By: babaliciou5

babaliciou5 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:18:41 +0000

Tricky term you got there, intelligent people are less likely to believe in God. Well to me, it’s suppossed tobe ‘intelligents beat hell out of unintellectual Church dogmas’.

People with high IQ levels do preserve the notion of god’s existence and its importance, they just happen not to believe what you refer to as a true god is the righteous god.

By: ginawriter

ginawriter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:28:04 +0000

Frankly, I believe the more intelligent people are, the more they give wonderings on an all knowing, omnipresent God. Or perhaps you’ve not been ganged up on by a league of morons.

Never the less, we’re all in trouble.

Yeah, in fact, purportedly, Einstein himself said the following:

“I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.”

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:00:28 +0000

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if everyone’s mind and heart were open to all truth? But to be able to discern truth from falsehood, one would certainly need to be in tune with the source of all truth, that is, Our Heavenly Father.

By: Dan (Fitness)

Dan (Fitness) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:19:40 +0000

Interesting that the study looked at belief in God, rather than belief in organized religion, general spirituality, or a host of other indicators. That’d be an interesting read.