Clever people 'less likely to believe in God'
PEOPLE with high IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study.
A leading psychology professor at Ulster University said many more "intellectually elite" people in the UK, especially univeristy academics, identified themselves as atheists than the national average.
Prof Richard Lynn said a decline in religious beliefs over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence
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I have an IQ measured at 145. I am a Christian. I despise the shallowness of Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not A Christian" essay, but many clever people love it, and value it. I reckon it has more to do with perception, and the literati have dominated with a soft left bias that often drifts to the far left. But conservatism is highly related to conservative theology of the type which builds a community of believers. Certainly my more left wing Christian leaders have shown themselves to believe in little, or nothing, in their pursuit of the pragmatic at the expense of God.
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