http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-are-less-inte...
My wife turned me on to this story several months ago and inasmuch as I completely agree with the findings, I had this nagging feeling that something was being overlooked. After all, there is a small percentage of intelligent people that still believe in a personal god. Then, I found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Suddenly I realized this is what I had been missing. This is a fascinating piece about how people of lower capabilities tend to overestimate their abilities and people of higher capabilities tend to underestimate. What's particularly interesting though is the rare instance where a person of higher capabilities does overestimate their abilities and I believe this is where the issue lies. This would perfectly explain why there is this small percentage of highly intelligent scientists that remain theists.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin
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