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Q: Has there been IQ testing on people with different religious sects. ( No Answer,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Has there been IQ testing on people with different religious sects.
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: kyla07-ga
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Posted: 23 Jul 2006 22:15 PDT
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Question ID: 748914
I know you have addressed IQ and religion but has there been tests to
show say the avg IQ of a baptist, a methodist, buddist, catholic,
unitarian, moslem ..etc, etc... Im interest in what religion has
people with average highest IQ and down to the religion with lowest. I
agree people of any IQ is capable of believing in God , but its the
way some people or religious sects believe that makes me wonder how
intelligent they are.
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Subject: Re: Has there been IQ testing on people with different religious sects.
From: myoarin-ga on 24 Jul 2006 01:38 PDT
 
Good question, maybe not politically correct, but a good question.

I expect that the athiests and agnostics may think that they
demonstrated the highest IQs, but we know some seriously Christian
Researchers here who are members of Mensa.
Ideology transcends intellect.  Just as there are/have been some
extremely intelligent criminals, I expect that in all religions and
sects there can be found people with high IQs.  (Please, I am not
equating these persons with criminals.)

Intelligent Design seems to me to be defended by persons who
demonstrate a high IQ, but who either have blinders to science  - or
maybe are playing a sophistic game, knowing they are arguing against
facts they accept, but enjoying the intellectual exercise of taking
the ID side.

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