Researchers find the dim more likely to believe in God

Belief in God is much lower among academics than among the general population because scholars have higher IQs, a controversial academic claimed this week.

From the Times Higher Ed Supplement

My favourite bit of the article is this comment

David Hardman, principal lecturer in learning development at London Metropolitan University, said: “It is very difficult to conduct true experiments that would explicate a causal relationship between IQ and religious belief. Nonetheless, there is evidence from other domains that higher levels of intelligence are associated with a greater ability - or perhaps willingness - to question and overturn strongly felt intuitions.”

As the Reg says

Next week: exclusive Reg research reveals the link between obesity and love of cake.

Now let’s just wait for the Theists to come out shouting…