Intelligent people ‘less likely to believe in God’
PaulSpoerry | June 13, 2008
People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study.
Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the “intellectual elite” considered themselves atheists than the national average.
A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.But the conclusions – in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence – have been branded “simplistic” by critics.
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