Hmm..Since when has believing in God got anything to do with intelligence or even education for that matter ? In India and other Asian countries, there are many illiterate people who mostly believe in God.

Richard Lynn, now it is time for your next study to prove that illiterate people are not intelligent ! GGRRRRR !

(Lets just beg a few questions here) If you were God…the God…god…or The Creator, would you reveal yourself to your creations? To me that idea seems pretty idiotic. It would mostly undo the reason for our creation at all, which as far as i can tell so far is to have children and be kind to each other. Were God to reveal himself in an actual tangible form, or something similar we would cease progressing as a race, and all of our energies would be spent praising and doing God's will.(not that we dont nec. do that now, but right now its a "choice", i doubt it would be as such if there was an physical manifestation of God) So in a way i guess religion is holding back humans from a boundary. Maybe, just maybe….thats God's job

Well……… If my belief in God makes me appear a little less intelligent to some people oh well.

It's not your belief in God that makes you seem less intelligent. The study says that people who have high i.q.'s are more likely to not believe in god. I think if the study was reformed, you would find that more intelligent people would say that they do not know whether or not there is a god or who god might be. The issue non-religious people really have, is that our laws are modeled from the bible. Asking a religious family member why she even cared that gays were getting married, she replied,"because god wants us to live a moral life". Now, no matter how hard I tried to explain it, she couldn't see how this should be none of her damn business. Is it ok for her to smoke cigarettes and say it's wrong for gays to get married. Both are sins according to what I was taught in my church. Another thing is evolution. Even though she knows very little about evolution, she denies it. There is a wealth of evidence that really makes evolution more than just a theory. The bible, is less than a theory. We can test certain things like whether some of the characters existed, but we can't test whether or not god was making these miraculous things happen. We can however, prove that things mutate and pass these traits to their offspring. We can also prove that species who mutate too much from their ancestors cannot mate with each other any longer, making them a different species. It's hard to believe things we have proof for, but defend to end things we cannot prove and even force these morals on others. This is where religious people are viewed as a lesser intelligence. Most non-religious people don't argue against your belief in god, just your intolerance of others non-beliefs. Now, most of you say that's not me. If you vote for a politician based on his religious stances, then that probably is you. I'm not bashing the people of religion, but the institution itself. I also believe that there are very intelligent religious people out there, but most the smarter people seem to believe less. Bill Maher's movie "Religulous", explains how it's the certainty that religious people have. That's ok, it doesn't affect me. When a law is passed that can only be considered immoral if you look in the bible, it does affect me. Then I start to draw a line in the sand. Certain family members, I won't talk politics with. My disbelief in The Bible, gives me a certain set of my own morals. One of the most immoral things I can think of is being a hypocrite. Every religious person I know seems to be this, even if they don't realize it. I don't believe in their religion and see them nit-picking sins. Like, it's ok if I drink this wine, but not ok if you smoke pot. As far as spending the money on something better, I think it was great. The religious people now know that you shouldn't send your kid to college. I have to agree with this. The more I learned, the less I believed.

It’s not your belief in God that makes you seem less intelligent. The study says that people who have high i.q.’s are more likely to not believe in god. I think if the study was reformed, you would find that more intelligent people would say that they do not know whether or not there is a god or who god might be. The issue non-religious people really have, is that our laws are modeled from the bible. Asking a religious family member why she even cared that gays were getting married, she replied,”because god wants us to live a moral life”. Now, no matter how hard I tried to explain it, she couldn’t see how this should be none of her damn business. Is it ok for her to smoke cigarettes and say it’s wrong for gays to get married. Both are sins according to what I was taught in my church. Another thing is evolution. Even though she knows very little about evolution, she denies it. There is a wealth of evidence that really makes evolution more than just a theory. The bible, is less than a theory. We can test certain things like whether some of the characters existed, but we can’t test whether or not god was making these miraculous things happen. We can however, prove that things mutate and pass these traits to their offspring. We can also prove that species who mutate too much from their ancestors cannot mate with each other any longer, making them a different species. It’s hard to believe things we have proof for, but defend to end things we cannot prove and even force these morals on others. This is where religious people are viewed as a lesser intelligence. Most non-religious people don’t argue against your belief in god, just your intolerance of others non-beliefs. Now, most of you say that’s not me. If you vote for a politician based on his religious stances, then that probably is you. I’m not bashing the people of religion, but the institution itself. I also believe that there are very intelligent religious people out there, but most the smarter people seem to believe less. Bill Maher’s movie “Religulous”, explains how it’s the certainty that religious people have. That’s ok, it doesn’t affect me. When a law is passed that can only be considered immoral if you look in the bible, it does affect me. Then I start to draw a line in the sand. Certain family members, I won’t talk politics with. My disbelief in The Bible, gives me a certain set of my own morals. One of the most immoral things I can think of is being a hypocrite. Every religious person I know seems to be this, even if they don’t realize it. I don’t believe in their religion and see them nit-picking sins. Like, it’s ok if I drink this wine, but not ok if you smoke pot. As far as spending the money on something better, I think it was great. The religious people now know that you shouldn’t send your kid to college. I have to agree with this. The more I learned, the less I believed.

He took the top 10 favorite books from each school on Facebook and then mapped them against the schools' average SAT scores. The results?

"The Holy Bible" is 50 points below "I don't read" which is 50 points below "The Bible". It seems whether or not one chooses to emphasize the religious aspect has an impact.

Yes, I know what Virgil did doesn't count as a proper scientific study. It's more of a "huh…wouldja look at that…"

He took the top 10 favorite books from each school on Facebook and then mapped them against the schools' average SAT scores. The results?

"The Holy Bible" is 50 points below "I don't read" which is 50 points below "The Bible". It seems whether or not one chooses to emphasize the religious aspect has an impact.

Yes, I know what Virgil did doesn't count as a proper scientific study. It's more of a "huh…wouldja look at that…"