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>> This is from Pew - a Christian Site
> Atheists are conformists who usually do what everyone else does.
Atheists have science, you have "faith".
ATHEISTS ARE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, FINDS STUDY
29 January 2018
Religious people are, on average, less
intelligent than atheists, researchers
claim.
With the number of people with a religious
belief on the rise – it’s predicted that
people with no faith will make up only 13
per cent of the global population by 2050 –
numerous studies have explored the
relationship between religious convictions
and IQ.
And now, in a new paper published in
Frontiers in Psychology, researchers say
that diminished intelligence among people
of faith could be because they largely rely
on intuition.
"It is well established that religiosity
correlates inversely with intelligence,"
note Richard Daws and Adam Hampshire at
Imperial College London.
Surveying more than 63,000 participants
online who indicated whether they were
atheists, religious or agnostic, each
person had to complete a 30-minute set of
12 cognitive tasks that measured planning,
reasoning, attention and memory.
Overall, the research found that atheists
performed better overall than the religious
participants even when demographic factors
like age and education were taken into
consideration. Agnostics mostly placed
between atheists and believers on all tasks.
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