(CNN) -- Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

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why thank you for sparing me guest = )

really not that surprising.
look at the advancement of science, and general understanding during the "dark ages" of christianity.
it is almost non existent.

people accept religious propoganda as being "right" with zero factual basis.

Should we be surprised at this?

Majority of the strong religious people in the US live in the south. Which, in most cases, is much poorer than the rest of the country. Most stronger liberals live up north, and most have more money than those in the south. The people up north, for the mos part, are exposed to better school systems and eventually go to a good college. While in the south, the schooling is not nearly as good and if they can afford to make it to a college, it will not be as strong of a school as can be found up north. Yes, there are some great colleges in the south but they are far out numbered when compared to those up north.

andy mcGEE:really not that surprising.
look at the advancement of science, and general understanding during the "dark ages" of christianity.
it is almost non existent..

the dark ages were pretty shitty for everyone involved... and youd be surprised how much of modern science was contributed to by theologians, monks, and professors at the Christian universities. neither galileo nor copernicus were unbelievers. one has to really make the distinction between a specific expression of christianity in a specific time in history and the overall arc of such a movement. like science, Christianity progresses and reveals new things through time (sometimes we gain insights, sometimes we lose insights as our world-views change)... unlike, science, Christianity is dealing with different issues and approaching truth in a different manner.

science and christianity has never been incompatible to me, or a lot of the Church. the anti-intellectualism found in few fundamentalist branches of Christianity are viewing the relationship between religion and science the same way as many scientists are.... as if they are opposed to or in competition with one another, which doesnt give each field credit to their natures.

edit: id also like to add that christianity and science arent going to be perfectly compatible due to christianity's concern with faith and the supernatural... something outside the scientific realm... and im ok with that. ive come to realize that life cannot always be deduced to scientific proofs or clauses... or even if something isnt scientifically proven, it doesnt necessarily mean it's false

^ i.e. I have to Google a bunch of shit and formulate it like it's my opinion.

i dont completely disagree with what you said flanagan, however in those days there was no choice but to be christian.


everyone was a christian, because if you werent, you would most likely be murdered. ESPECIALLY if you were coming up with radical scientific ideas and a prominent public figure.

same goes for art in that period. obviously i dont know, perhaps the masters WERE ridiculously devout. the fact remains that the work they were commissioned to do was by the church so if they wanted to eat, they made religious art.

what a coincidence - there are no great philosophers on this website! just a bunch of book/google nerds

mis-one:So, as someone that isn't atheist. What is the humor in the above image exactly? A couple of you post that shit up and I'm assuming it's either 1. to get a rise or 2. because you find it insensitive, thus funny. Enlighten me hoes..

i could honestly care less what religion someone is. i'm an atheist but i'm not going to go out trying to convince others to be. imagine how boring the world would be if every person followed the same belief system.

Sorry!

if there is no higher power, wouldn't everyone know for sure and not question it?

do atheists know where we came from? something that isn't just a theory?

chukrz:do atheists know where we came from? something that isn't just a theory?

so creationists know where we came from? something that isnt just a theory?


sorry bro, ancient texts do not count as fact. you just have "faith" that god exists and created us. faith is just a really strong hunch...or theory.

the evolution of man is a TERRIBLE way to try and prove or disprove the existence of god

andy mcGEE:the evolution of man is a TERRIBLE way to try and prove or disprove the existence of god

It does disprove the way man was created according to the bible, though. So, in a way it makes one question other aspects of the bible, and of the god described in it.

the problem is that most of y'all are making assumptions that simply are not implicit in the study's findings. you're suggesting that the qualities of higher intelligence (advanced reasoning skills and the like) are REASONS that people are atheist, but anyone with a decent IQ (hehe) or anyone who has taken a high school statistics class knows that correlation does not necessarily imply causation. the article itself proposes an explanation of the correlation (which i find to be just as plausible) being a result of an attempt to align oneself with a certain group for whatever advantages that may produce; either way, the relationship between intelligence and atheism is NOT shown to be causal. also, my statement about great philosophers (and not just philosophers but mathematicians, engineers, writers, etc.) is not "ineffectual" cuz it seems to fly in the face of the findings. i guess i shouldn'tve said "pretty much every great" cuz that's a matter of opinion, but the idea is there are plenty of people we can point to throughout history that demonstrated an (often RATIONAL) belief in a supreme being(s); this seems to conflict with y'alls idea that intelligence produces atheism.

Kenan:

chukrz:do atheists know where we came from? something that isn't just a theory?

so creationists know where we came from? something that isnt just a theory?


sorry bro, ancient texts do not count as fact. you just have "faith" that god exists and created us. faith is just a really strong hunch...or theory.

I never suggested that creationists had more than faith. I just want to understand atheists' reasoning.

Travis:thats pretty dumb chukrz.

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wtf? "creationists" refers to goofy science - this whole deal should be a "neverending cycle between people who believe in the spiritual and those who think their existence is meaningless."

random:wtf? "creationists" refers to goofy science - this whole deal should be a "neverending cycle between people who believe in the spiritual and those who think their existence is meaningless."

why do you have to believe in god to belive your life has meaning?

anyone here ever received healing?

lol

Smells like worms.
A can of them might have been opened