intelligent less likely to believe in god, page-230

I will now attempt to prove the subject statement irrefutably through cold hard logic, math, statistics and reasoning. No philosophy required.

Let's say throughout the history of a hypothetical humanity there have been 9 groups pressing 9 religions upon nine civilizations, A-I. The final group, J, has no religion suggested to them. Each of these "groups" has billions and billions of people evenly divided between them, but in the interests of conserving my "0" key, we will talk in a unit which represents a vast figure. Now let's say each group has 10 units of people in each. Now let's call these units "people" for the simple fact I am adding this line in retrospectively while proofreeding and that is what I have already done and don't feel like changing ha ha.

Of the 9 religions, I will allow the best case scenario and say ONE of these religions is the correct one, "I". I will say "I" is Christianity, not meaning to be bias, but I am guessing it would be the religion most of the people arguing AGAINST the subject would believe in, so I will give them the best possible scenario. So "I" is the winner, congratulations all you Christians, looks like you'll be strolling through those pearly gates after all.

But of the other 8 religions, people have been believing in complete nonsense, very dumb lies. Too harsh? Well, if some of the stories AREN'T true, then believing it is quite foolish. ie, if no one really turned water into wine, and Joe from down the street was told this and believed it, then yes, I would say it was nonsense.

So say 5 out of the 10 people in every group believed what they were being fed, and 5 didn't. It would be fairly logical to say, the 5 that did NOT believe in nonsense would be more intelligent, and would be able to use their intelligence to see through such nonsense. So far we have 8 groups of 5 unintelligent people each which has believed in God through sheer lacking the intelligence to question the lies that had been fed to them. This represents 40 unintelligent people who believe in God or a religion.

Now how about the people in those groups who DIDN'T believe there was a God. Let's call it a wash, and say 2.5 people still believed in God, even though they don't believe in the nonsense fed to them, and 2.5 were atheist. This makes 40 unintelligent people who believe in God or a specific religion, 20 intelligent people to believe in God and 20 intelligent atheist people.

Group I, the "chosen people" I will try and be as favourable as possible AGAINST the argument I am trying to make. Let's say because it is true, SEVEN people believed in "Christianity", (2 more because it was "da trooth!") and 3 didn't. Let's call these seven people "intelligent" for picking a winner, and call the 3 black sheep unintelligent for failing to see the light.

Group J we'll call a wash, as we can't make a logical conclusion as to who is more intelligent. Let's say overall they're a group of average intelligence people, half believing, half not, cancelling each other out.

So what are we left with?

40 unintelligent believers, 27 intelligent believers, 20 intelligent non-believers and 3 unintelligent non-believers.

In conclusion, I have proven there are more unintelligent believers than intelligent believers, and more intelligent non-believers than unintelligent non-believers, and hence have proven the subject statement to be correct.

Irrefutably? Of course not, ha ha, all the figures are made up, the flaws are obvious, but my point being:

Out of all religions, only one can be right. Therefore you have a lot of people believing in complete nonsense throughout time (greek gods anyone?), acting sheep-like and believing what is fed to them because society or family etc tells them too, and more intelligent people are less likely to fall for this "nonsense" due to their intelligence, disregarding that "one true religion" of course. The fact a lot of "unintelligent people" will buy into the multitudes of nonsensical religions, which logically HAS to be all but one, weighs heavily in favour of the non-believers.

In saying all of this, I personally believe the most intelligent people do believe there is a God, but not in a made up religion, not saying they are all made up, just every one of them but one (best case).

I would also like to add, I don't feel it is neccessarily a bad thing to believe in a religion, even if I don't believe it to be true. I'm kinda grey on it. I have Christian friends and their faith may give them more happiness than my lack of a specific faith provides me, be it through community, comfort, hope and a belief that everything will be all right in the end.

(btw thanks atomou for the kind word, given the lack of argument for or against my ideas I had assumed no one read it or saw it worth commenting on)