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At one time in order to survive as an atheist, you had to be smart enough keep your mouth shut. Otherwise you would be beaten to death or worse. That's where that saying comes from ""The Fool Hath Said...There Is No God".
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Liberals, Atheists Are More Highly Evolved? Liberals, Atheists Are More Highly Evolved?
Smarter people more inclined to nontraditional values, study suggests.Maggie Koerth-Baker
for National Geographic News
Published March 3, 2010
Your apelike ancestors probably aren't top of mind when you enter the polling booth. But a new study suggests that human evolution may have a big influence on whether you're liberal or conservative?not to mention how smart you are, whether you believe in God, or whether you've got a cheatin' heart.
It's all linked to the evolution of intelligence, says author Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
(Also see "Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve.")
Kanazawa's theory is that intelligence?particularly our ability for on-the-spot problem solving and reasoning?arose as an adaptation to deal with the unusual and unexpected, such as a sudden forest fire.
Since disasters like that are rare in daily life, responding to them wouldn't likely be something our ancestors were hard-wired to "know" how to do. Surviving the fire required both the ability to think up a new behavior, and the willingness to try it out.
Smarter people more inclined to nontraditional values, study suggests.Maggie Koerth-Baker
for National Geographic News
Published March 3, 2010
Your apelike ancestors probably aren't top of mind when you enter the polling booth. But a new study suggests that human evolution may have a big influence on whether you're liberal or conservative?not to mention how smart you are, whether you believe in God, or whether you've got a cheatin' heart.
It's all linked to the evolution of intelligence, says author Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
(Also see "Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve.")
Kanazawa's theory is that intelligence?particularly our ability for on-the-spot problem solving and reasoning?arose as an adaptation to deal with the unusual and unexpected, such as a sudden forest fire.
Since disasters like that are rare in daily life, responding to them wouldn't likely be something our ancestors were hard-wired to "know" how to do. Surviving the fire required both the ability to think up a new behavior, and the willingness to try it out.