{"id":266,"date":"2007-01-28T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-01-28T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T09:41:00","slug":"the-god-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-god-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The God factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55169768@N00\/350944402\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/125\/350944402_8a07c42fe3_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55169768@N00\/350944402\/\">Pray without ceasing\u2026<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/55169768@N00\/\">Hotori?<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jp.dk\/indland\/artikel:aid=4210550\">this article<\/a>, a Danish professor of psychology (who&#8217;s about to retire) has found out that atheists on average have an IQ that is 5.8 points higher than that of believers.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether Harry Turtledove realised this when he wrote <i>Between the Rivers<\/i> in which believers are depicted as extremely stupid compared to the free-thinkers. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if the article is correct, I wonder whether it&#8217;s believing that makes people less intelligent, or whether less intelligent people are more likely to believe in a god than more intelligent ones.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray without ceasing\u2026 Originally uploaded by Hotori?. According to this article, a Danish professor of psychology (who&#8217;s about to retire) has found out that atheists on average have an IQ that is 5.8 points higher than that of believers. I wonder whether Harry Turtledove realised this when he wrote Between the Rivers in which believers are depicted as extremely stupid compared to the free-thinkers. \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, if the article is correct, I wonder whether it&#8217;s believing that makes people less intelligent, or whether less intelligent people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,159,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-en","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}