The Atheists' Creed

[cHeal]

Then why post on it?

Care to back up your rather broad generalization above?

Cause I felt left out and like to belittle other people?

Which generalization do you want me to back up?

[nozzferrahhtoo]

Fully agree that there are statistics to say that as education goes up, instances of theism go down. This is not, as some on here have taken offence to, a comment on the relative intelligence of theists v. atheists.

Rather, I see it as a commentary on the varied reasons why people ARE theists. Talk to a few and you will see they all have varying reasons. Some are afraid of dying, some think they have evidence (although after 10 years of asking they still refused to share any of it with me) and some just have questions for which a god is the only answer they know.

That is not an exhaustive list, but it is three of the main categories.

Clearly however an increase in education undermines the 3rd option on that list. If the only reason you believe in a god is that it answers questions that are otherwise unanswered, then an increase in education will reduce the amount of these unanswered questions by.... well.... answering a lot of them.

Again, this is no commentary on the relative intelligences of those involved, and it has been pointed out there has been very intelligent proponents of everything from theism to alchemy.

It is merely a commentary that an increase in education undermines the reasons that SOME people have for thinking there is a god, and hence correlates with a decrease in same.

This does not mean an increase in education will change ALL peoples minds, which should be born in mind by anyone who thinks that the statistical correlation is somehow leading us to call theists unintelligent or uneducated, when a serious amount of them clearly are not.

[Cato]

Cause I felt left out and like to belittle other people?

Which generalization do you want me to back up?

*Sigh* OK, play silly buggers then.

[cHeal]

Oh cheer up. It was a stupid discussion anyways