Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God' By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Last Updated: 2:57PM BST 12/06/2008 | Comments 651 | Have Your Say People with higher IQs are less likely to believe in God, according to a new study.
AP Professor Lynn said religious belief had declined in the 20th century Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average. A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed. But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded "simplistic" by critics. www.telegraph.co.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
