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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.170030.7556@hsr.no>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:00:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.224717.1993@prime.mdata.fi> <BzMCF5.12C.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec22.172158.11967@hsr.no> <1992Dec25.161954.8588@prime.mdata.fi>
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- >In article <1992Dec22.172158.11967@hsr.no> onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam) writes:
- >n>Although I think that you are right in general, I wanted to add that all (6)
- >>the exceptionally smart people I know (IQ>125), including myself, are Christians
- >>
- >
- >What if we lift the limit to 160?
- >
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- Only 1 pr 2000 or so has an IQ greater than 160. I think I know only one who
- exceeds this limit. (He is a christian) But when one gets as high as that one
- cannot rely on most tests. I personally bust the charts (>170) of many
- intelligence tests but I think my true intelligence is reflected by the test I
- had at the age of 6 which yielded an intelligence of 152. But I don't quite see
- your point in raising the limit. It seems like you have not dealt very much with
- axioms (unquestion-ed/able assumptions). It is possible to build a completely
- rational and coherent mental universe on axioms which necessarily does not
- coincide with the common awareness of "reality". This allows for severely
- intelligent people to act out religious, often fundamentalistic beliefs. In fact,
- one of the most intelligent (logically) people I know is also one of the most
- irrational I know.
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- >>except one who is an atheist.
- >>
- >>Religion is often connected to feelings. Feelings are unintelligent and if you
- >>yourself are not very intelligent, your feelings will make sense and seem
- >>coherent. How often haven't you heard Christians say "Listen to your heart"? Such
- >>a statement shows that they allow their feelings to rule their world. This is
- >>harder for someone whose rationale exceeds her feelings. She will be more able to
- >>cut through and behave rationally despite of her feelings. She will also be able
- >>to see that her feelings are *not* coherent and therefore is less likely to
- >>become religious.
- >
- >Yes, when they are right-brain dominant, their feelings govern more.
- >In one way right-brain intelligence is intelligence, that's why I specified
- >that it has to be logical (left-brain) intelligence that causes atheism.
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- Onar.
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