Remember how the Canadian atheists were going to do battle on a TV show, in an IQ test, against nerds, believers, politicians, twins, and athletes?
It aired.
Atheists took 3rd.
Believers took 4th.
And the Nerds won.
(Ok, so that wasn’t really a huge surprise…)
Lindsay gives us a few of the other highlights:
The person in the in-studio groups that had the highest IQ was an atheist, who scored 140. Woo!
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There were some comments made by the believers that struck me as really nasty, to paraphrase: “the atheists need to remember there is a hell”, and “we sleep better at night [than the atheists]“…but there was a lot of friendly rivalry between all of the groups so it’s all good. The nerds seemed to take the brunt of the insults though, so I’m glad they won!
Atheists sleep pretty well at night, too. It’s hard not to, when you’re fairly certain there’s no hell to worry about.
It’s also easier to sleep at night when you’ve beaten the Christians in a televised IQ test.
(via Struck by Enlightning)