Atheists smarter than theists? Don’t believe it
Turns out that the atheists are wrong about their supposedly superior intelligence too, not that this should come as any surprise. As atheists are fond of reminding people who lobby for causes such as Young Earth Creationism and/or Intelligent Design, correlation does not imply causation.
Turnabout is fair play.
I especially like this little historical tidbit:
According to the studies of John Galbraith Simmons, of the top 20 scientists in history, 15 were religious believers (four of whom were deists), two were agnostic, and three were atheists. There were more Catholics among them (five) than either agnostics or atheists, and five more came from other Christian denominations. Thus a full half of the most influential scientists in history were Christians.
Sir Isaac Newton, for instance, whom Simmons considers to be the most important scientist who ever lived, was aided greatly in his endeavors by his belief in an ordered universe created by a God of order. Thus he could write, “It is the perfection of God?s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion.”
He saw no incompatibility between his Christian faith and the purity of his science, as one complemented the other. “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence,” he wrote.
High IQ scores are such funny things. Leftists and atheists will clamour to hold up disparities in average IQ between the religious and non-religious as proof positive that the godless are smarter and, by extension, correct. Few will dare mention the disparities in average IQ between, say, whites and blacks, or whites and Asians, or Asians and blacks, and fewer still would dare suggest that those disparities mean that Asians are smarter than whites, who are in turn smarter than blacks. And for good reason — it wouldn’t necessarily be correct to make such an assertion. Of course, it is equally incorrect to make the assertion, then, that atheists are smarter than theists.
Of course, that never stopped Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins.
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