I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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I think you are over-estimating the benefits of intelligence. Those with IQs over 100 can easily rationalize themselves into some completely absurd views too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LynnHarveyNyborg-CountryBelieveGod-Intelligence.svg
That graph is from the exact same Wikipedia article I got the difference of 6 IQ points, I focused on the figure that measured individuals not averages though. "Firstly, using data from a U.S. study of 6,825 adolescents, the authors found that atheists scored 6 IQ points higher than non atheists." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#Studies_comparing_religious_belief_and_I.Q.
That graph shows average IQ across a country, so does not address this question very well. That the averages for religious countries are so high implies that there are still a lot of people with IQs above 100 being included.
IQ is distributed roughly along a bell curve, though the distribution is a little flatter in the middle. In order for the average to only be 6 points lower, most of the IQ scores above average must still be present in the non-atheist set.