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Mar 18 2016 10:22am
Quote (duffman316 @ Mar 18 2016 11:19am)
you literally ran away from the last discussion on wlc :zzz:

a guy that worships wlc could probably learn a thing or two from his nephew anyway


I declined to respond to the last post filled with strawmen arguments and personal attacks against WLC. I'll continue to educate the atheist masses with the brilliant philosophy of WLC... stay tuned.
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Mar 18 2016 10:23am
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I declined to respond to the last post filled with strawmen arguments and personal attacks against WLC. I'll continue to educate the atheist masses with the brilliant philosophy of WLC... stay tuned.


if we're lucky you'll know better by the time you finish school
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if we're lucky you'll know better by the time you finish school


Who needs formal education in philosophy and logic when you can just search WLC on youtube?
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Mar 18 2016 10:28am
Quote (IceMage @ Mar 18 2016 11:25am)
Who needs formal education in philosophy and logic when you can just search WLC on youtube?


probably the people who search wlc on youtube
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probably the people who search wlc on youtube


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Mar 18 2016 10:47am
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Burn


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Mar 18 2016 10:56am
Quote (IceMage @ 18 Mar 2016 16:47)
Yes... yes you will.


Not if WLC's arguments are anything to go by.
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I declined to respond to the last post filled with strawmen arguments and personal attacks against WLC. I'll continue to educate the atheist masses with the brilliant philosophy of WLC... stay tuned.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395972/Atheists-higher-IQs-Their-intelligence-makes-likely-dismiss-religion-irrational-unscientific.html
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The conclusions were the result of a review of 63 scientific studies about religion and intelligence dating between 1928 and last year.
In 53 of these there was a ‘reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity’.
In just 10 was that relationship positive.


Of course religion folk are going to nitpick the 53 of the 63 studies, but is anyone really surprised by this result?

Atheists are disproportionately wealthier and better educated than their religious counterparts. Lots of confounding variables here.

A religious person who is just as wealthy and educated as the average atheist probably has a similar IQ.

So it's probably not as much of a correlation of IQ with religious/not religious as it is with wealth and education, but I'd argue there is at least some correlation there. It's probably not a lot, but it is there.
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Mar 18 2016 09:01pm
Quote (ThatAlex @ 19 Mar 2016 01:30)
Of course religion folk are going to nitpick the 53 of the 63 studies, but is anyone really surprised by this result?

Atheists are disproportionately wealthier and better educated than their religious counterparts. Lots of confounding variables here.

A religious person who is just as wealthy and educated as the average atheist probably has a similar IQ.

So it's probably not as much of a correlation of IQ with religious/not religious as it is with wealth and education, but I'd argue there is at least some correlation there. It's probably not a lot, but it is there.


Wealthy, well-educated religious with high iqs are relatively rare.

This post was edited by Scaly on Mar 18 2016 09:01pm
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