Tue, 2006-12-19 17:44
as an atheist i have not personally taken the leap of faith required to believe in a god. however, i fail to see how this makes me more or less intelligent than anybody else. it is surely the case that the vast majority of people, theist or atheist, are intelligent enough to realise that the existence of a god is, rationally speaking, unlikely. this, though, has no bearing on a theist's faith which, by its very nature, is unconditional. theism is only a less intelligent position if you define intelligence solely as a measure of how blind you are to all types of thought other than logical thought. this is clearly an unspeakably poor definition of intelligence, for a start rendering virtually all art pointless.