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winner01:
Are you trying to say those news were reported falsely

Which is more reliable?

A study conducted by a team of scientists and professors in a University and published in a Journal

Or

A study conducted and reported by a journalist in a media house?

winner01:
Are you trying to say those news were reported falsely

Controversial researcher Richard Lynn was the author of the study and Greame patons report about the study is given below:
Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.
A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.
But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded "simplistic" by critics.
Professor Lynn, who has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and sex, said university academics were less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else.
A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.

Most of thestudies you hav given are by Miron Zuckerman, and did you know that Miron Zuckerman has recently come out to carefully point out that his work does not mean only dumb people believe in God. Rather,he says that, it shows only that more intelligent people may feel they have less need for religion.


Academy of sciences you say. We are talking about general education.

The last study is seriously flawed and proves nothing. There have been times whenleading scientists were theists, did that hinder the progress of science. We are talking about education here.

I'm trying to imagine you and cloudgoddess conducting a survey on religion and intelligence. We can know the result even before you start.

I'm dissapointed cos out of about 60 studies on religiousity and intelligence, you can only give 3. Actually, ive read about 11 of such studies which affirm a negative correlation between education and religion. I have my reservations cos of the sample sizes and population of study.

You should bow your head and keep quiet.
Those researches were conducted by more than one author, published in world reputable journals and were definitely peer reviewed by a board of editors prior to publication.

I am surprised you still had the guts to refute researches published in 'Nature', 'Intelligence' and 'Science'. It shows your height of delusion.

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winner01:
We have scientific studies which show that religious people tend to be more educated, and I can provide them. Do you have any proof other than your mouth that atheism and education are related?

Do you still want more proof that religion makes someone dumb?

In conclusion, our investigation of religion and intelli-
gence in a large sample of US adults had the important
strength of assessing religious belief on a wide variety of
measures, as well as controlling for the effects of openness,
which may have confounded findings in previous work. We
observed that intelligence was negatively associated with
five of the six measures of religion, and most strongly with
fundamentalism, although effect sizes were typically modest.
In addition, openness positively predicted the spiritual
elements of religion, but was negatively associated with
fundamentalism (Lewis et al, 2011).

...intelligent people are more prone to question irrational or unprovable religious dogmas ( Lynn et al, 2009).

SirWere:
But their "obsession" is usually limited. Most atheists; after a while, usually contend themselves with silence and staying in the background after realizing the futility of continous arguments.

You, on the other hand, continue to "preach" against atheists, in a horribly misjudged fashion.


Chill, sire.


Take a break from the religious section, open a thread somewhere else. Your profile is chock-filled with threads on Atheism and nothing on the Christianity you claim to practice. All in all,




Just Chill.

If I were as jobless as he is, given the time he spends in compiling all these garbage. I would have given him less to rant about long ago.

Winner01 come and debunk these researches o

A meta-analysis has found a negative correlation between intelligence quotient (IQ) and religiosity (Zuckerman et al., 2013).

Zuckerman, Miron; Silberman, Jordan; Hall, Judith A. (2013). "The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 17: 325–354. doi:10.1177/1088868313497266.

Winner01,

In the 1990s a study of members of the American National Academy of Sciences reported that 7% believed in the existence of God, as compared with approximately 90% found in a poll of the general population (Larsen & Witham, 1998).

Larsen, E. L., &Witham, L. (1998). Leading scientists still reject God.Nature,394, 313.

winner01:
Can we have such studies?

We already know some noteable studies were popularised in

CNN
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/study-more-educated-tend-to-be-more-religious-by-some-measures/ ),

Daily Mail
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025166/The-education-people-receive-religious-become.html )


Education positively affects religious participation, devotional activities, and emphasizing the importance of religion in daily life" Springer: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13644-011-0007-4



Can we have some proof other than the waving of your hands?

You should present more of journal articles published by researchers and not links to news headlines by journalists and media houses.

Graeme, Paton (11 June 2008). "Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'". The Telegraph.

Lynn, Richard; John Harvey; Helmuth Nyborg (2009). "Average intelligence predicts atheism rates across 137 nations". Intelligence. 37: 11–15. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2008.03.004. Retrieved 2015-05-25.

"Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, study shows". Science Daily. 26 April 2012.

Zuckerman, Miron; Silberman, Jordan; Hall, Judith A. (2013). "The Relation Between Intelligence and Religiosity: A Meta-Analysis and Some Proposed Explanations". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 17: 325–354. doi:10.1177/1088868313497266

winner01:
We have scientific studies which show that religious people tend to be more educated, and I can provide them. Do you have any proof other than your mouth that atheism and education are related?

There are scientific studies that proof that a negative correlation exists between intelligence and belief in God.

winner01:
We have scientific studies which show that religious people tend to be more educated, and I can provide them. Do you have any proof other than your mouth that atheism and education are related?

You're misunderstanding me bro.
I asked Ebuka to google something, and here you are saying something totally different.
By the way who said religious people are not educated?

In fact its the educated religious people that often become atheists. Do you understand?

KingEbukasBlog:
Lmao ... noo .. related searches include what other people have google searched . I only googled "atheists have emotional problems " while researching for my thread and woah I saw those related searches and decided to snipe it .

Lol.. Maybe you should also google "educated people are more likely to become atheists".

I'd like to see the related searches too.

Winner01 I knew you wouldn't disappoint me.
The topic of your write up says one thing, while the body of the write up discusses the exact opposite.
Probably you'd barely notice it because of your desperation.

KingEbukasBlog:
Good thread bro . Let me book space

Is that your preoccupation in that google search history

kilo4sure:
Isn't it true that some atheist nations like North Korea and Russia are not also performing as well as those working nations in the Olympics? Why mention religion at all in this matter?

Did the op mention Atheist Nations?
Why not read, comprehend and digest the post?

KingEbukasBlog:
I don't care about what the OP says cos I know his intention . I simply asked a question which of course he knows the answer . And please I'm not at your level of comprehension . I don't reason or discuss with atheists because of the abysmal reasoning you guys display . I am here to expose the lies and foolishness of atheism not to reason with you guys .

You know his intention?
Did you read up to his last statement?
This is his concluding statement;

"whatever ur faith may be, christianity, Islam, atheist, agnostic, etc together we can make our nation great".

Where is the foolishness you talk about?

KingEbukasBlog:
So wait ... how many atheists have won medals at the Olympics And how many religious people have won medals in the Olympics

Do you see that the tables have turned? One word for you bro : Ignorance

The op talks about;
Some religious nations not performing well in the Olympics
Working nations performing well in the Olympics
Working nations working in all spheres.

The op doesn't talk about;
Atheists performing well in Olympics
Theists not performing well in Olympics.

Hope you've seen your level of basic comprehension

Religiosity is one of many other factors of success.

Oyedepo is busy with the last guy (likely head usher).
Offering must be involved

Fraud preys on believe aka Faith

Tricksters!!.
Why look for money? Like pastors ?
Does the ghosts or whatever spend money?

Efewestern:
Yea only in your world...

The gods are in your world not mine.

Efewestern:
There re some issues i don't agree with Those religious peeps.. issues like Christianity is d best religion, If u re nt a Christian you gonna burn in hell, ... e.tc, Those issue i Critically examined them before drawing conclusion... But to say God doesn't exist is a Big No no for me..

I hope you get my point

Maybe the god humans think they know doesn't exist.

Efewestern:
Because i know There exist the supernatural.. Lets wait for the report

My advice:
Don't be so sure, that's how you get scammed .

Efewestern:
*Verified * sorry about that.

Just reminding you that the experiment was carried out by an atheist, So there is no such thing as magical trick here,

Lol...Where's the report of the experiment?
Why are you so certain by the way?

Efewestern:
This was Varied by an atheist, Stop giving lame excuse.. Please and please

What was 'varied?'
Why would I be giving 'excuse?'
What excuse do you think am giving?
I hope you are ok

Y'all are waiting for a recap of a magic trick fiesta

Their mumsi plan Don work.
If I hear say children recognize governor.