Are Atheists Smarter or Simply More Self-Reliant and Self-Indulgent?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A national poll reveals that non-believers have higher IQ's than believers. Does this mean they deny the existence of God based on their superior intellectual skills, or is something else in play here? What are the real reasons intelligent people sometimes reject the claims of Christianity or the existence of God? J. Warner answers these questions in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.6 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity, I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:23.0 | Today we're going to talk about something you probably experienced online if you're a |
| 0:25.7 | Christian or if you're somebody who believes in God and you're talking to people who don't, |
| 0:29.4 | and that is the simple question. |
| 0:31.1 | Are atheists who you talk to online smarter because they'll tell you they're smarter? |
| 0:37.4 | Are they smarter than us? |
| 0:39.1 | Or are they simply more self-reliant and self-indulgent? |
| 0:42.1 | What I mean by that is that we get this accusation all the time, right? |
| 0:47.1 | That if you're a believer, it's only because you're too naive to either understand the |
| 0:50.5 | science or understand all the evidence that points away from God. |
| 0:53.8 | If there's that, if that's out there, I wrote a book called God's Crime Scene. |
| 0:57.4 | I think we should. |
| 0:58.8 | There's good evidence to suggest that you can get everything that we see and experience |
| 1:02.0 | in the universe from just space, time, matter, physics, and chemistry. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, then I would be out too. |
| 1:06.2 | The problem is, if you look at those causes, the materials that are in the soup, those |
| 1:11.9 | materials can't account for the experience we have in the universe. |
| 1:14.8 | That's my argument in Cold Case in God's Crime Scene rather, so I looked at this evidence |
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