Originally posted by xelamental
Recent research shows that the higher your IQ, the less likely you are to believe in god. But god made us.
as far as i could see, the reasearch only showed that the higher your IQ, the less likely you are to admit to believing in god in the current social
climate.
Does that mean that he embedded in some of us a predisposition to not believe in him, and in others a predisposition to believing?
i think it means that there is a predisposition in all of us to attempt to gain a grasp of the universe and the result depends on what tools we decide
to use to do it.
some people use logic to explain their emotions, the result is "i feel there must be some point to my life and something more than this, so
logically, there must be a god"
some people use logic to explain away their emotions and the result is "even though i feel that there must be some point to my life and something
more than this, i see no evidence and so my emotions must be wrong, there is no god"
some people use both emotions and logic to understand the reality they perceive and the result is "i feel there should be a god but there is no
evidence, i can't tell which is right so all i am capable of saying for sure is "i will never know"."
i fall into the rd catigory, so i say it's an unanswerable question. who knows? i'll say this, if a higher IQ makes you less predisposed to believe
it also gives you more of a chance to understand so it all evens out in the end.
makes it all fair.