Study: Intelligent people are not religious?
Another scientific study claims to show that the smarter you are, the less religious you’re likely to be. The PsyPost article on it leads with a headline saying there’s “‘very strong’ evidence for a negative relationship between intelligence and religiosity.” This study compiles the best information from dozens of previous research projects and pretty much puts the question to rest. “Intelligent people find religion irrational.” the study’s authors say; and there’s “evidence suggesting that more religious people are not as intelligent as less religious people.” Looks pretty ugly for believers, right? Wrong. This study has at least three strikes against it. Their definition of “religiosity” is so vague, it’s practically meaningless. Their conclusions quoted in the second paragraph above are wrong. I mean, really wrong. They’re the kind of mistake you’d get corrected on in your Statistics 101 class. Even if they had proved in some meaningful way that more intelligence m