Forum.RttP{Atheists smarter than Christians, Jews, Negroes}

(but they don't have a category for holistic transcendentalists, who believe in an immanent god and not a tangibly dualistic God)

Professor Lynn, who has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and sex, said university academics were less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else.

A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.

He told Times Higher Education magazine: "I believe it is simply a matter of the IQ. Academics have higher IQs than the general population. Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/211...less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html

I'm skeptical of supporting this. First, he uses IQ as his basis, which is problematic because IQ reveals a striking difference between races and classes (African-Americans average 89, Mexican-Americans 94, and white Americans 102; higher classes in the UK are demonstrably higher IQ average than the proles, working classes and wannabe middle class). Second, he's claiming academics -- long known to be the least useful and productive members of society, second only to seasoned rapists -- as his basis for "more intelligent," excluding the thought that there's another group. Third, he only has two categories on his little survey. The article seems pro-Atheist, but actually, it's smear propaganda.