Most intelligent people are Atheist.

[coomar]

Originally posted by: JS80
Einstein's an idiot. He's a fraud who stole the theory of relativity when he was working at the patent office. The guy came to patent it and he slammed his head against the counter window and ran off with the patents. Bastard.

i'm going to assume this is a joke for your sake

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: coomar

Originally posted by: JS80
Einstein's an idiot. He's a fraud who stole the theory of relativity when he was working at the patent office. The guy came to patent it and he slammed his head against the counter window and ran off with the patents. Bastard.

i'm going to assume this is a joke for your sake

It's from Family Guy.

 

[KillerAngel]

Well this thread proves trolls exist, so why not sky faeries too?

 

[venk]

i like the custom mouse pointer

 

[eits]

this thread is rubbish.

btw, einstein believed in God.

 

[Conky]

Let's up the ante-- what do intelligent people think about gay dolphin abortions? :laugh:

 

[aidanjm]

I like the concluding sentence: "The simplest and most parsimonious explanation is that religion is a set of logical and factual claims, and those with the most logic and facts at their disposal are rejecting it largely on those grounds."

Makes sense.

 

[Random Variable]

I would guess that the most intelligent people are agnostics, not atheists.

 

[Doboji]

Could someone pass the popcorn? Oh and anyone want another beer?

Boy these lawn chairs are comfy, and damn what a great show tonight

-Max

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
I would guess that the most intelligent people are agnostics, not atheists.

That would be my guess as well. It's hard to say that something doesn't exist for certain if you don't absolutely know.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: eits
this thread is rubbish.

btw, einstein believed in God.

oh?

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

......(Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: DVK916
http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%20religion.htm

This study clearly shows that those with higher intelligence tend to reject god beliefs. Other studies in the past have also found a correlation between religiousness and intelligence.

Of course. They researched and found there was no god.

*Opens :beer: *

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: DVK916


You must be a god believer, only a sky fairy worshiper would have such a nasty attitude towards an atheist.

DVK916 - a fountain of irony.

most obvious troll ever...

 

[Doboji]

*POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP*

 

[LtPage1]

That's ridiculous. Go away and flame-bait yourself elsewhere, troll.

 

[exdeath]

Atheist here myself... but wasn't Einstein religious?

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Atheist here myself... but wasn't Einstein religious?

no...but he wasn't an atheist either.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Atheist here myself... but wasn't Einstein religious?

no, at least not in the sense that most people think.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

this is a common myth because of all his quotes where he talks about a god... but he was actually talking about god metaphorically.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl

Originally posted by: exdeath
Atheist here myself... but wasn't Einstein religious?

no...but he wasn't an atheist either.

according to the quote above, he was in the sense of the term that most people are familiar with...

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: mooncancook
For someone as intelligent as Einstain is, it's really possible that he's more toward an atheist view when he was young and felt like he's so powerful and invincible, but may totally changed when he got old and faced death when he felt how powerless he really was.

actually the quote above, showing that he was an atheist, or at least what many would consider to be an atheist, was from a letter about a year before his death

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: AMDZen
I'd say the article is illogical.

Most intellectuals are agnostic. There is a big difference between aetheist and agnostic. Its no more logical to think you can KNOW god doesn't exist, then it is to have the same naive attitude the religious zealots do when they claim to KNOW god does. What makes those religious people even more ignorant is the fact they believe to know exactly what god expects of us, on top of that blind faith in his/her/its existance. Sure, I know a lot of very smart people who believe that there is a god, or some higher being - but they don't usually follow one of the simple faiths found in our cultures around the world - in that they may subscribe to some things in one religion and some in another. Overall, they realize that all religions are going to be wrong at least some of the time.

I won't deny that there isn't a god, but I don't necessarily believe there is one either. There are times when I believe there has to be a higher being, and I'm probably right - but that being won't be limited to the singular context I'm using it in. It could have been an entire civilization that created us, or a consciousness consisting of thousands or even millions of individual "consciousness's" or something. I don't pretend to know or understand either way, and frankly that just makes me lose respect for anyone who thinks they do. Whether they're theist's (namely Christians) or Aetheists who believe that there is NO GOD whatsoever. I'm open to the possibility that all gods, spoken of since the dawn of time in human beliefs, exist in some form. I'm not going to say they can't, but chances are if there is one such being - there are several.

not to take this thread in a different direction, but *knowing* is different than *believing*. i am atheist and agnostic... i don't believe god exists (just like you say you don't), but that doesn't mean that i think i know for sure that one doesn't exist.

 

[Gamer X]

So what's the IQ for one to be considered intelligent ?

 

[Xyclone]

Other studies in the past have also found a correlation between religiousness and god belief.

:shocked:

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: mooncancook
For someone as intelligent as Einstain is, it's really possible that he's more toward an atheist view when he was young and felt like he's so powerful and invincible, but may totally changed when he got old and faced death when he felt how powerless he really was.

actually the quote above, showing that he was an atheist, or at least what many would consider to be an atheist, was from a letter about a year before his death

that's not my point. I really don't know if he is atheist or not. I'm just saying that during a lifetime of a person, the person can be atheist at one time and become religious at another time, vice versa.

And why people think science and religion are mutually exclusive? do we all need to believe in evolution to become a scientist, to be intelligent? The title of this thread is ridiculous, and you know that when you you hear even atheists think it's ridiculous.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: NathanBWF
Uh oh...

Marshmallows... Check..
Grill Fork... Check...
Lawnchair... Check...

Ok I am good to go for this thread.

lol