Originally posted on 01/26/2015:

Quote Originally Posted by recon1 View Post
None of the non-beleivers here are making an ounce of sense. If you can't read the bible prophecies and look at events today and see the correlation's then you'll believe the great deceptions either taking place now or latter.

Brain, i think a verse exist about trying to show non-believers the truth, but when the person refuse and refute we are to walk away for they have CHOSEN. I think the ones here have chosen. You did a great job Brain.
Funny, we think the same about you guys. Times 10

When you quit using the bible as the main source for your argument, we can elevate the discussion past the second grade level.

In a 2013 meta-analysis, led by Professor Miron Zuckerman, of 63 scientific studies about IQ and religiosity, a negative relation between intelligence and religiosity was found in 53, and a positive relation in the remaining ten. Controlling for other factors, they can only confidently show strong negative correlation between intelligence and religiosity among American Protestants.[1][2]




Nyborg also co-authored a study with Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, which compared religious belief and average national IQs in 137 countries.[11] The study analysed the issue from several viewpoints. Firstly, using data from a U.S. study of 6,825 adolescents, the authors found that atheists scored 6 IQ points higher than non-atheists.



Secondly, the authors investigated the link between religiosity and intelligence on a country level. Among the sample of 137 countries, only 23 (17%) had more than 20% of atheists, which constituted “virtually all... higher IQ countries.” The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which was determined to be “highly statistically significant”.[11]