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cthulu2016

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13. Non-belief correlates highly with education level...

Sat Dec 24, 2011, 07:20 PM

Dec 2011

...but correlation is not causation. We do not exlplicitly educate people to hold no faith, though typical faith-based claims about the material world will be demolished in any science education. (If a faith is foolish enough to make such claims.)

The real reason that intelligence (which is what education level mostly really tracks statistically) is inversely correlated with faith is not that it is dumb to believe in God, but that it takes a lot of processing power to grasp the alternatives.

A lack of faith with no satisfactory counter explanation for the world and its behaviors probably manifests itself, in polling, as indifferent acceptance that there's probably "something."

Before the 1800s it was kind of dumb to not believe in some sort of God because the counter-explanations were woefully insufficient.

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