[On the apparent intelligence of atheists]
Also, I wouldn't rely too much on the heathen. Just cause they 'sound' smart don't mean they are. IQ tests are the true nature of intelligence. Einstein IQ was 160, Marylin Monroe IQ was 168.
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"Just cause they 'sound' smart don't mean they are." Notice the ellision of "because" and the misconjugation of "does not." Does anyone else hear this delivered with a hillbilly accent?
IQ tests aren't so clever themselves, actually. (Stephen Jay Gould wrote an eye-opening book about them called The Mismeasure of Man .) But even so, I am highly suspicious of any claim that an IQ test rated Marilyn Monroe as more intelligent than Albert Einstein. That has got to be an urban legend at best.
~David D.G.
In all fairness, he might have meant Marilyn vos Savant. But in any case, IQ tests are only a good measure of your ability to take IQ tests, and if he's relying on Einstein as evidence for his side I've got this to say:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
[Albert Einstein, 1954, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
"Also, I wouldn't rely too much on the heathen."
Albert Einstein was Jewish (albeit a non-practicing one). Strike one.
"Just cause they 'sound' smart don't mean they are."
Like Ray Comfort and Kent Hovind? You said it, I didn't. Strike two.
"IQ tests are the true nature of intelligence. Einstein IQ was 160, Marylin Monroe IQ was 168."
So why wasn't she recruited into the Manhattan Project? I'm suuuuure she could have supplied not only the necessary eqiations vital for the success of the atomic bomb much sooner, but also to have created the thermonuclear device first, thus the USSR would have been conquered - or at least cowed into fear so much, therefore the USA would have become the only emerging superpower decades before now. Amirite? Strike three. Ergo...:
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@Julian
"Breasts like Granite and a brain like Swiss Cheese
- Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe"
"Kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing Hitler"
-Tony Curtis
IQ tests are random general knowledge tests (read "random" at it's utmost). Even Mensa's not definitive, there's thousands of them.
In a general knowledge one Marilyn would outperform Einstein as he lived Physics and cared little for anything else.
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