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Post by yumecosmos on Dec 19, 2006 14:58:07 GMT -5
I don't think it's quite fair to quote that article as if it came from Wikipedia when it actually came from an article written for Sceptic magazine in the 80s. I would expect a magazine called Sceptic to be biased against religion, and the article's author even admitted that it was easy to find fault with the studies he used. I don't know what kind of test they're using to determine an "intelligent" or "highly successful" person, but that sort of thing seems awfully hard to quantify. As I said before, standardized tests are not the greatest measure of intelligence. And as for the thing on college alumni, I think that's a misleading corellation. I say they're not more intelligent because they're less religious, they're less religious and more intelligent because they're older. (By comparison, it's been "proven" that the number of bathrooms in your house affects your SAT score. But it's not really the bathrooms making them score higher, it's because more bathrooms tends to indicate a wealthier household and thus a better education.) In my experience, college students on the whole tend to be more liberal and less religious because they're starting to rebel. I'd venture to say that most grade schoolers who are religious have had it imposed on them by their parents and other authority figures.
Sorry to drag this off topic, but I can't stand to just let a debate drop. If you'd prefer I can move this to a different thread... ^^;
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Post by Zyppora on Dec 20, 2006 7:07:38 GMT -5
Kinda like 'wearing two of the same socks increases your chances of getting in a car crash, because statistics say that 0% of car crashes had a person involved with non-matching socks'. I can see where you're coming from. I'd like to think that those who look beyond the length of their noses (as the Dutch proverb goes), with which I mean the college/university students, are less religious because they don't just accept everything they hear to be the truth.
But no, I really don't think I'd like to debate on the correlation between religiosity and intelligence, as I'm pretty sure I'd become quite infamous quite fast. I'll drop this debate right now.
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