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Old 11-06-2007, 11:45 AM
madnak madnak is offline
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Default Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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The article is written by a journalist I bet. I would be very surprised to find it was written by a scientist.

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"You bet." How about you actually read the damned article? It was written by Edward Larson and Larry Witham, the very people who conducted the survey. They used the model created by James Leuba in 1916. There is nothing fishy going on.

I don't think there's a free copy online, but there are plenty of reviews. I've seen this referenced before and have just run it through Google and nobody appears to have any issues with the method except that the definition of God is too narrow (see my post earlier in this thread). You are being an ass and refusing to do your own homework. The high incidence of atheism among scientists is well-documented and no amount of hand-waving is going to change that.
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