| Well, religion (mythology) is the result of humans not understanding something and attempting to explain it using fantasy elements. Which is very normal and natural. So if a society currently lacks the education or intelligence to understand complex scientific principals of course they're going to use fantasy to try to understand the world around them. Once people understand the world around them using non-fantasy or non-religious explanations, they usually abandon religion. The way I see it, science and religion are just 2 different ways of achieving "understanding". All humans want answers, and will get those answers using which ever method, science or religion, they have access to (sometimes both). So apparently: - Religion causes people to have low IQs (No) - People who are religious are usually of a lower intelligence (Not really) - People who are of a lower intelligence usually tend to be more religious (Yes, usually) - Some people are both very intelligent and very religious (Yes) If these observations are true, how much of society will be offended by them? |