Are religious people really less smart, on average, than atheists? [Spirituality & Religion]
It’s a question with some urgency, the proportion of people with a religious belief is growing: by 2050, if current trends continue, people who say they are not religious will make up only 13 per cent of the global population. Based on the low-IQ-religiosity link, it could be argued that humanity is on course to become collectively less smart. Its said that atheists surpass religious individuals in terms of reasoning but not working-memory performance. The religiosity effect is robust across🤔
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I know firsthand some very intelligent people who have religious beliefs. But the thing that the people I know have in common is a way of combining their faith with an understanding of science that makes both schools of thought compatible.
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Even though I’m agnostic, I’ve often seen religion as attempting to answer the “why?” questions while science focuses more on the “how?” questions. I know that’s overly simplistic, but I’ve viewed that as a rough way of delineating between the two in a manner that gives each some unique space in a Venn diagram sort of way, if that makes sense. @bijouxbroussard
