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What the..... Did you even read what I said? I didn't say that at all.

I think religion would be an evolutionary trait on the premise that those that belonged to a religion were more likely to survive do to idea of them belonging to a group.

Cave troll. Guarantee you it has at least 8 feet on Handy Andy. Sorry. I'm a nerd.

Does he have comprehension skills capable of logically debating an argument to ban religion?

Maybe we should ban heroine and murder while we're at it. That'll stop all evil in this world.

The Martian is an excellent example.

I'm a christian. I should be banned for my "violent" beliefs?

Or banning all soldiers because a few of them killed innocents.

Religion is also the route cause of a lot of major humanitarian efforts.

Not to mention(assuming he meant globally) it would start a war never before seen.

What is your set of mental rules that you live by? Or at least try to?

Perhaps success is actually related to a high IQ rather then a high IQ to success?

https://www.verywell.com/are-people-with-high-iqs-more-successful-2795280

No. If you want to get rid of religion, you have to let it die out on it's own. Forcing it to stop will not help.

Alright..... And if they exhale from their nose?

I'm a layman here, so forgive me for asking, but why is there a limit?

How about a room devoted to wireless electricity. Or a room for static electricity games. Things like that.

Ever meet a normal person with an IQ of 190? I haven't. Kidding. But I would say the meaningfulness negates at about 145-160.

I agree. But there is a measure of intelligence.

I knew a homeless guy with an IQ of supposedly 167. When I was about 10 he stopped using drugs and everything and cleaned up his life, and decided to start a business. He's soon going to be a multi millionaire.

It shows a correlation with success. There's a margin or error, yes, but there's still a very true correlation. What do you say that is? What?

Typically, the people with the highest IQ(from real tests, administered at times like elementary or middle school) seem to be interesting people in general, while also having more success. But yes, with an unacceptable margin of error. My theory is that IQ measures the ability of somebody to adapt to abstract problems, and recognize what is the most logical path to follow. Now logical doesn't equate to correct, because they might decide the logic based on different ideas of where they want to go. On top of that, sometimes, there are two both good logical paths, and you're trying to pick the simplest one(in the case of an IQ test) of them. Even though there are multiple correct ones. And since the correlation shows people with higher IQ's have a slightly larger chance of success(defining success as money, career, etc. Even if that isn't how you decide success, it's what the study meant.) , you can conclude that the higher you score on an IQ test, the more likely that your thinking will make you successful. Regardless though, the margin of error is too large to say that you have to have a high IQ, and it's also too large to say that a high IQ will make you succeed.

I've known atheists who've become theists. I would definitely say that is a "revision of beliefs" because they definitely do not believe the same thing they did before. And I've known theists who've become atheists. I would definitely say that is a "revision of beliefs" because they definitely do not believe the same thing they did before. In that context, my entire argument relies on the premise that "revision of beliefs" includes going form atheism to theism and theism to atheism. And not just the latter. I felt it was logical to say that they would both count as someone changing their beliefs. Do you? Second link or first link? The first link I'm not discussing because it's the news article. The second link is what I'm discussing. In which case, it says this: "Beliefs profoundly affect people's lives, but their cognitive and neural pathways are poorly understood. Although previous research has identified the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) as critical to representing religious beliefs, the means by which vmPFC enables religious belief is uncertain. We hypothesized that the vmPFC represents diverse religious beliefs and that a vmPFC lesion would be associated with religious fundamentalism, or the narrowing of religious beliefs. To test this prediction, we assessed religious adherence with a widely-used religious fundamentalism scale in a large sample of 119 patients with penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI). If the vmPFC is crucial to modulating diverse personal religious beliefs, we predicted that pTBI patients with lesions to the vmPFC would exhibit greater fundamentalism, and that this would be modulated by cognitive flexibility and trait openness. Instead, we found that participants with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) lesions have fundamentalist beliefs similar to patients with vmPFC lesions and that the effect of a dlPFC lesion on fundamentalism was significantly mediated by decreased cognitive flexibility and openness. These findings indicate that cognitive flexibility and openness are necessary for flexible and adaptive religious commitment, and that such diversity of religious thought is dependent on dlPFC functionality" If you look at the 2nd to last statement, it says it was mediated by decreased cognitive flexibility and openness. In other words, increased fundamentalism. Because the definition of fundamentalism is "the strict adherence to"