Church Attendance Plummets
As World IQ Increases



According to a study published in this week's Newfoundland Journal of Psychology, the world is getting smarter. Average IQ scores have risen 1.9% worldwide since the year 2000 and 2.3% since 1990.

Professor Thomas Collingsworth of Whitehorse University stated that a likley reason is the Internet. Millions of people now have current information on every imaginable subjet literally at their fingertips. 'In reality it's not so much we are collectively smarter as the fact that we have fewer utterly stupid people than we use to have.

On average, Atheists scored 1.95 IQ points higher than Agnostics, 3.82 points higher than Liberal persuasions, and 5.89 IQ points higher than Dogmatic persuasions. Atheists were third highest in the study overall, behind Jews who ranked second and Aardvarkians who scored highest. "I'm not saying that believing in God makes you dumber. My hypothesis is that people with a low intelligence are more easily drawn toward religions which give answers that are certain, and more easily accepted by those with lower IQ's while people with a high intelligence are more skeptical," says the professor.

Literally-oriented religious Believers did not differ significantly from Mythologically-oriented Believers on measures of intelligence, authoritarianism, or racial prejudice. Religious Believers as a group were found to be significantly less intelligent and more authoritarian than religious Skeptics."

Researchers, led by Professor Richard Lynn of Ulster University, have found a link between intelligence and atheism – in fact, according to them, university academics are less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else. I believe it is simply a matter of the IQ. Academics have higher IQs than the general population. Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQs tend not to believe in God,"Commenting on the study in The Daily Telegraph, Professor Lynn said "It should come as absolutely no surprise that this is the case. Why wouldn't fewer academics believe in God than the general population?"

The human need for certainty apparently causes many to fall back on wishful thinking. Professor Collingsworth said. Despite highly unlikely conclusions based on blind faith and miracles, smoke and mirrors if you will, some people want or need to believe so desperatly that they will believe just about anything"