{"id":26349,"date":"2016-06-02T00:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/why-people-who-believe-in-god-are-more-likely-to-have-a-lower-iq"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:14","slug":"why-people-who-believe-in-god-are-more-likely-to-have-a-lower-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/why-people-who-believe-in-god-are-more-likely-to-have-a-lower-iq","title":{"rendered":"Why people who believe in God \u2018are more likely to have a lower IQ\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-people-who-believe-in-god-are-more-likely-to-have-a-lower-iq.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stupid people are more likely than eggheads to believe in God, a controversial new study claims.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that is bound to offend millions of churchgoers, a British psychologist says he has found a link between having a high IQ and being an atheist.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery helps explain why university academics are less likely to be religious than almost anyone else, he says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1029149\/Why-people-believe-God-likely-lower-IQ.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1029149\/Why-people-b...er-IQ.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stupid people are more likely than eggheads to believe in God, a controversial new study claims. In a move that is bound to offend millions of churchgoers, a British psychologist says he has found a link between having a high IQ and being an atheist. The discovery helps explain why university academics are less likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67374,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349\/revisions\/67374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}