US ambassador killed over a film

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Relating intelligence to belief in a religion would be pretty difficult to quantify, if not impossible. There is however, certainly a correlation between education and being religious. Numerous studies have shown that those who are more educated are more likely to be atheist, those who less educated are likely to believe in a faith. This has been reflected geographically too, where there is a higher population of atheists in coastal cities than in middle America. But education is very much a different matter than actual intelligence. George W. Bush attended Yale and Harvard, but was dumber than a rock, or at least he certainly said a lot of things that would indicate such.

Religion was developed during a time when we had no science or history to be able to understand or explain the natural phenomena that occurs around us. It is on this basis why philosophical Idealism and Materialism are fundamentally opposed to one another.

And eppie, love and beauty are social constructs mate, not biological. Love might appear to have a biological component to it, such as between a mother and child, but even this relationship must be learned, and with the divorce rate in our society being 50%, I would say this is solid evidence that love changes, best friends can become strangers, and therefore, love is ultimately a social construct. Beauty is absolutely, 100% a social construct, for the exact same reasons that race is.