What we knew all along: Study finds atheists smarter than believers.

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  1. thebrucebeat

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    Exactly.
    That's why it was silly.
     
  2. Anobsitar

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    What about if the USA is only a two dimensional Comic?

    [video=youtube;Wl_byQF8vHE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl_byQF8vHE[/video]
     
  3. Anobsitar

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    ABV (argument by video): the land of the lame and the home of the
    incapable.
     
  8. Prof_Sarcastic

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    Then life would be very strange indeed. Now I repeat, why did you claim the word was a construct of atheists?
     
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    Man this made me want to go to youtube and see if there was a video about that. Gotta love the internet.
     
  10. Bow To The Robots

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    I have a mountain of empirical evidence to support the conclusions of this report.
     
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    You mean anecdotal evidence. (which means nothing scientifically.....)
     
  12. Anobsitar

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    I don't think it needs any argument. In general the intelligence of every big group of people is near 100±15 (x-average ± sigma: Sometimes some test are using another scale, for example 200±30.) If a very big group of people - millions or even billions of people in case of religious people (and by the way: everyone is religous - ask psychologists :lol:) are - ¿how much less? - intelligent than others - then there's something wrong with this people or with the test or with the people doing the tests or with the enculturation, socialisation and or other factors of education in the modern western societies (or maybe sicknesses, hunger and other biological factors are important for this result). If I count for example in this forum here how many atheist are calling Christians idiots on very stupid reasons and how seldom Christians are doing the same, then I would say it's exactly in the opposit. Christians are much more intelligent than Atheists. But this is maybe only an illusion - because the theory about intelligence says very clear that every big group of people ... By the way: The last time I took a look on the diagnostics of intelligence it had more than 500 different factors - I would not be astonished if next week or next century a book with the title "religious intelligence" would be written from the same people. Oh I see - I am an idiot. Next century no one of them is any longer alive. Ts ts ts - Tyeah yeah - sigh - So you can see: Christians are idiots - or am only I an idiot? But how am I able to speak German what sounds like a bad english with an IQ of less than ¿70? in a scale of 100±15? Nevertheless you called me "village idiot" - so if you are not an idiot I must be an idiot. :lol:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzldLJcorbo
     
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    I think there is! watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0sR5_NTFo

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    I think there is! watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0sR5_NTFo

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    Any empirical evidence that any of the god stuff in the bible is anything but a made up anecdote?
     
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    IQ is not flawed. many leftists just don;t like the results.
     
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    The fundies sure dont!
     
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    Well I guess we will have to just disagree. IQ is flawed as a measurement. It's quite bizarre that anyone could think it utterly flawless, imho, but you know what they say about opinions.
     
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    Only an idiot uses "no comment" and smilies as his argument bedrock.
     
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    IQ is contantly being revised and the arguments against it are generally based on how it was administerered in the 1950s.Leftists are against it because it produces results they don;t like.
     
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    Any evidence for anything you have written here?
    A citation of some kind?
    Sounds like whining opinion to me.
     
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    I stand by what I said. I think it strange to believe that it is flawless.
     
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    And strange to believe it is so profoundly flawed as to reveal nothing.
     
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    A fair point. A flawed diamond is a diamond nonetheless.
     
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    And yet that diamond would be unsellable on the market, unless you scammed someone by hiding the flaws that would be obvious to anyone that looked at it closely.

    Better analogy than you thought!
     
  24. taikoo

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    You dont know diamonds.
    Diamonds with flaws are common, and certainly are expensive.
    Check "flawed diamond" on, yep, google. Your notion that they cant be sold, or that its necessary to scam and hide is simply wrong.

    Better demo of you position than you thought. :D

    Seriously, are you proposing that IQ tests are so flawed as to be worthless?
     
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    Let me say it this way: It's not wrong that I am not an idiot. Whoelse would try to speak with you?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUK0S_cEXY
     

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