Posted on 07/20/2014 7:35:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Have you ever heard the claim "all smart people are atheists", or maybe its inverse: "people who believe in God are dumb"? It's quite a pervasive urban legend, and one which I've known is false for a long time, but I didn't realize just how false until the other day. I recently decided to do a quick cataloging of the ten highest IQ's on earth, and discovered that it's nearly the exact opposite of the truth!
Before reading the list, however, I want to remind you of the caveat that IQ test results are not in any sense the measure of a person's worth. They tend to favor folks who are good at hard "knowledge" things like mathematics and chess, and I think we all know very valuable people who are good at none of these. Moreover, I think the attribute of "wisdom" (valuing attributes like ethics and foresight) is a far better measure of whether or not a person will be happy. I'm not aware of any standardized test for measuring wisdom, however.
Another important point is that there are competing ideas on which tests most accurately measure intelligence. Not everyone takes the same IQ test, and there are enough claims, counterclaims, and disputes in this subject to drive a researcher bananas! All I could do was read everything I could find on it, and rank the candidates based both upon their scores and on who seemed to be the most unanimously agreed upon as worthy (ignoring many "fan clubs" along the way).
An additional challenge I had to grapple with is that minors' scores are adjusted upwards to compensate for their age. The younger they are, the higher the relative adjustment.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Their religion is the scientific method.
I think finding a link between religious belief and IQ is false dichotomy.
Being intelligent doesn’t mean you are rational. Look at Bobby Fischer.
Not to me surprising that most of these individuals have some sort of spiritual perspective, but the writer seems to really stretch interpretations of Christianity to include some in that category on scant evidence or a beyond broad definition of what counts as Christian.
There is something about Chess champions and sanity. Lots of them come up bonkers after a few years of glory.
I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed...
..at least I know not to click on any link that takes me to “The Examiner”!
I avoid it for the same reason I avoid sex with Paris Hilton - you’re going to catch something that will take a while to clear out!
I ignore junk like this. They say Hillary Clinton has a high iq based on this or that ( no actual test score) or they give tests scores for people who have been dead for hundreds of years- all liberal heroes. Junk
1 Corinthians 1:26-
“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise,. . “
Happened to read this message just before getting online this morning and it offers some basis to explain why:
come! come and win the friendship of My Holy Spirit to become collaborators with Him, for He will graciously initiate you into Our mysteries by opening your mind and your eyes to understand and perceive the Imperceptible yet graciously offered to you at no cost;
I believe there are very few true atheist because the belief in absolutely nothing is not conducive to, nor an example of, intelligence. It is a however a trait that psychopaths and sociopaths tend to share and many of them score quite high on IQ test, but their social skills and table manners tend to be terrible.
However, I would like to mention Dr. Ben Carson. He’s not only in the High IQ area, he’s also a brilliant physician. And .. he counts it all as his relationship with Jesus; which his mother taught him.
Interesting man.
A recent study indicated that the higher your IQ the more self deceptive you are. Explains why PhD’s are so stupid!
8+6=10?
Albert Einstein:
Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.
With all due respect, not everyone in the world has taken an IQ test, and even those who have have not necessarily taken tests capable of discerning IQs at the one-in-a-billion level. (For example, the ceiling of some common tests is around 160, corresponding to not even one-in-a-million, meaning, >7,000 people in the world, out of seven billion people total, could get perfect scores on such tests.) The identities of the ten highest IQ people in the whole world aren’t known. So this article is meaningless.
Thank you...
Given that greater than 80% of individuals generally are religious, this means that atheists (and deists) are statistically over-represented in the ultra-high IQ population.
I’m sorry, but I don’t get the chess and genius thing.
You want to play some real chess? Run a political campaign in an even up district against a strong D competitor.
Let’s see how good you are at chess then punkass.
While this in no way negates your statement, Heisenberg once said "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you." I rather like that. Though I haven't finished my glass yet.
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