On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:36:18 -0800, Rick Froman wrote:
They didn't distinguish between physical and social scientists back
then (or even have a concept of science) but, as to the correlation
between intelligence and religiosity, the Apostle Paul would have
felt vindicated by these results. In the first chapter of his first
letter
to the Corinthians, he wrote:
"26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were
called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many
were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the
wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and
the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, 29so that no
one
may boast before him.
30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become
for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness, holiness and
redemption.
31 Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the
Lord."
Unfortunately, Dutton, one of the authors of article under discussion,
would appear to disagree with Paul on these matter. See his earlier
article on religious undergraduates at Oxford:
http://www.jirrs.org/jirrs_nr_6/3-jirrs6-dutton.pdf
Quoting the article:
|The article will argue that a by-product of particularly high
|intelligence (as manifested not merely in high IQ but in an
|ability to solve problems creatively, learn from experience,
|remember in detail and other factors) is a far greater
|likelihood to perceive a sense of agency in the world -
|something which we will understand to be the essence of
|religious experience.
I guess St. Paul didn't know what he was talking about or
maybe was conning the converts or was "retconned". ;-)
I'll leave the obvious conflict between this statement and Dutton's
statement about scientists in the physical sciences for other to discuss
(message #3 to Tips for today ;-).
-Mike Palij
New York University
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