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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It's not that their dumb, it's just that many have confirmation biases. Evolution is about survival mainly.
Because of the above, it's my belief that we weren't born knowing logic. If we were born in the wild, it would be about surviving. So logic is something we have to teach ourselves.
I find that there's a huge difference between people who have learned logic even being kind of spiritual and those that have not and are religious.
