i did the iq test that is on the side bar as an advertisement here on answerbag... i got a 131 and i believe in god now... never tried an iq test before though so i guess i could have had a much higher iq before i started believing!

I always noticed that the the smarter someone thinks they are, the less happy they are about life.

Then you must have to be a genius not to believe. Technios believes and that score is in the upper reaches toward genius.

Please show your work. Where did you get your information?

Yes but correlation doesn't prove causation. Stupid people are probably generally fitter than smart people. They are more likely to have a manual job and get exercise from it. Smart people are more likely to have a desk job and a fat ass. However this is just a correlation. Obviously low IQ doesn't directly cause fitness. High IQ doesn't cause inactivity. The more intelligent someone one is, the more likely they are to have gone through higher education. Higher education teaches people to be skeptical of anything that can't be scientifically proven. It conditions people to have that philosophy. It discourages intuitive thinking. High IQ is also probably statistically linked to arrogance and an emotional unwillingness to believe in something greater than yourself. I think this is just meaningless statistical bullshit.

It would appear that you have some secondary evidence to reinforce the propostition behind your question. The backlash posts from the faithful don't actually answer your question, so I will. No I didn't know that.

how come the cat doesn't believe in God then?

no mean to start offense, but i am sure if I did some research... I could find some of the highest thinkers in the world that believed in God. What about Voltaire?

Possibly..because highly intelligent people are more interested in concrete, factual information. I do however, know many highly intelligent people who DO believe in God.

As much as I would like to believe that, it sounds very made up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-%27less-likely-to-believe-in-God%27.html http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=402381&sectioncode=26

I guess that makes me pretty stupid:)

Tell that to Einstein. He was a big time believer.

This appears to be a case of selective reading by someone hoping they've finally found the unquestionable proof they've long been searching for. However, these articles also state - 1. The claims have been made by a controversial academic 2. The individual making the claim has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and to sex 3. The study itself was "simplistic" 4. The study failed to take account of a complex range of social, economic and historical factors. 5. The studies were not performed in an unbiased scientific manner, but appeared to have "a slight tinge of intellectual elitism and Western cultural imperialism as well as an antireligious sentiment". As many others have pointed out, some of the most intelligent minds known to man have believed in the existence of God, including Einstein, Voltaire, Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, etc. Not to mention highly intelligent individuals in all realms of acadamia currently who believe in God, including those involved in the field of Quantum Physics who believe there is evidence of a higher intelligence which exists. This is not simply a matter of "majority rules" here, that's simply a nonsensical argument that deserves no weight on a matter such as whether there is a higher intelligence in the universe or not. One could just as easily conclude that the more intelligent people become, the greater the tendency is for them to become egocentric and to believe nothing exists that is more intelligent than they are.

Sounds like pure hogwash to me.