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- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
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- From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:12:30 -0600
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- In article <1992Dec19.224717.1993@prime.mdata.fi>, iikkap@mits.mdata.fi
- (Iikka Paavolainen) wrote:
- >
- > Am I seeing wrongly, or is there a connection between one's IQ and one's
- > religiousness? Of all people I know, I know only about 8 exceptionally smart
- > people (IQ>125), and all of them happen to be atheists. On the contrary, the
- > dumbest people I've seen (eg. unable to use a remote control) are the most
- > religious.
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- Consistent in my experience, too. However, I do find among some of the
- brightest (and intellectually brave) a compelling interest in
- transcendental consciousness or the idea of a greater 'mind' but not
- the conventional notion of a god.
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