Atheists vs Theists - IQ Score

by serotonin_wraith 78 Replies latest jw friends

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  AlmostAtheist

  I got a 147, but when you consider all the other stuff I could've been doing and instead chose to do this, I think you have to take my "intelligence" score with a grain of salt. ;-)

  Dave
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  LtCmd.Lore

  Dear LtCmd.Lore,
  
  Thank you for your interest in the test at IQTest.com.
  
  Your general IQ score is: 142

  Atheist.
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  Seeker4

  I took the test and then waited for my results - in vain.

  Most probable truth - a computer link snafu.

  My take: IQ so goddamn high the computer crashed trying to compute it.

  The truth: I've tested several times at 140-144 IQ since high school.

  Atheist, of course.

  S4
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  integ

  interesting
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  smellsgood

  I can't help but think not only of the present intellectuals but of the past as well.
  
  For me, I would have to assume a very opprobrius (I used a big word!) and contemptuous mindset in order to brush off billions upon billions of people present and past who believed in a Deity of some sort or other, of whom the majority I will never have any idea as to their er...Intelligence Quotient, and declare those many many people as likely having a lesser intelligence compared to their non-believing counterparts.
  
  I think for example of Isaac Newton. He was most certainly a believer. Perhaps he was an "exception" to the dumb rule, but I think we can all agree his intellect was absolutely breathtaking. What about the philosophers of thousands years past who are still relevant and were theists? Plato anyone? Of course, there are incredible minds of both persuasion.
  
  I think many people if they have run across such a study, and perhaps particularly if they aren't of the highest intelligence (as it seems that many of the dumber ones I run across believe themselves to be of exceptional intellect, ever encountered this?) they will want to join the group who appears to have the intellectual upperhand. I'm saying, that if it is perceived that to be of greater intelligence to be an atheist, then one who PERCEIVES himself to be of greater intellect will immediately want to associate with that group. Then you will have very smart and perhaps dumb ones who believe themselves to be smart, gravitate towards it. Just like so many sheep. That may draw down the group pretty quick.
  
  Everyone wants to be one of the "smart" group. There may be an element of self-importance and pomposity in the identifying oneself w/ a group perceived to be of superior intelligence.
  
  All and all I don't really think it is an intellectual problem at all. I think it is a great many factors, but I would not group so broadly a group consisting of such a great percentage of the population past and present.
  
  Even with what I think to be completely idiotic belief systems such as Mormonism or Moonies, I recognize that very intellegent people can be duped, it is a deception, it is a commandeering of the circuitry. I restrict the wholesale deception pretty much exclusively to cults though.
  
  anyways, longwinded, perhaps misinformed and missing all kinds of points, but my 2 cents
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  educ8self

  Good point, the fact of the matter is mind control is not a matter of intelligence, it's a psychological issue. If you have a true believer that is smart they will just use their intelligence to rationalize their beliefs, it doesn't mean they are not capable of using their intelligence in other areas in life or a neutral process such as an IQ test. It's only when you talk about those particular issues that their logic becomes convoluted and ultimately falls short.
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  nvrgnbk

  47
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  Mysterious

  47

  Typo? :P I got 138, atheist. I am admittedly spacial reasoning impaired however. :)
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  nvrgnbk

  47 Typo? :P I got 138, atheist. I am admittedly spacial reasoning impaired however. :) That was just on the first question. Reverent atheist here. “My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”

  George Santayana
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  5go

  I don't have the time to take it but, the last one I took one I scored an 128.

  I am Judeo-Christian Athiest with Gnostic leanings. How ever illrelivant and mutualy exclusive that is what I am.