If atheists are smarter than religious people, then why are there so few of them?
The fact is that standard IQ tests typically only measure analytical IQ, and in reality there are many different categories of IQ: physical, emotional, etc...
Obviously, since the vast majority of people on the planet are
religious or believe in a God of some type.... it must be a rewarded natural selection trait and therefore "religious IQ" must be superior to "analytical IQ" at least from that point of view.
After all, what good is analytical IQ, if you are not going to carry that trait forward?
Is the truth only that atheists and religious people think really almost alike, using abstract models of reality,with one more specific and full of doubts, while the other, more nebulous and full of faith?
It seems to me religious IQ is even more necessary than analytical IQ and perhaps the atheists are just temporary blips or genetic oddities, that die out quickly, but rise up here and there every once in while in history.
I always thought that understanding the abstract things was a sign of an intelligent person. I know that an apple is a fruit, because I can hold one and examine it closely.
To understand things without rock solid evidence, is a challenge.
But why do some atheists get all rapped up in science fiction and fantasy games.
They can understand fictional abstract thoughts, but not religious abstract thoughts. It's almost like they pick and choose based on what they think is most entertaining.