Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Biblical Literalism or Low IQ: Which Came First?

Gene Expression has a couple of interesting posts that compare IQ levels with belief in Biblical literalism and also levels of higher education. Not surprisingly, the fundies do fare very well and the graphs confirm what I've always thought: how can anyone intelligent blindly accept everything in the Bible as literal fact. Here is what Gene Expression found:
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A few months ago I posted data which showed, unsurprisingly, that Unitarian-Universalists tend to have high IQs and Pentecostals not so much. What about something like Biblical literalism and IQ? Well, I plotted the IQ values from the General Social Survey for selected denominations and plotted them against the proportion which believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible. Prepare to be greeted by a very banal reality


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