I’ll offer another explanation for the findings of this survey.
Atheists tend to pride themselves on a certain level of intellectual ability and they make it their business to learn things. They tend to be self-selected intellectuals. Believers however, include millions of people who are happy and devout in their faith but are not necessarily very intellectual about it. Christianity after all, is at heart about the *love* of God, not the *study* of God.
I don’t know the methodology of the study so perhaps this was addressed, but taking a self-selected sample of the population and comparing it to one from the general population is quite likely to give exactly the result they got, and probably doesn’t prove much.
I agree. I was discussing the philosophical aspect of it all rather than the validity of the survey.