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The essence of Faith (I would prefer the word Faith instead of Belief for the former conveys the

actual sense of the phenomenon better) in God is not an Yes or No answer to the question as to whether God exists or not. Rather, what matters is its practical implications in Human Life. Thus, it can be translated as the Sense of Responsibility and Accountability before God. And that is what exactly the Doomsday warnings( Day of Judgment) practically do in almost all the major Religious Traditions of the world. Hence, though the God-believing person with higher IQ for whom God is still a problem not yet resolved is a theoretical possibility, his belief claim is practically meaningless in our world.

IQ is not Intelligence. Its only a part of it. Even Intelligence is not everything as far Human Beings are concerned. (Even computers have intelligence (Artificial Intelligence) ;that is why super computers defeat Viswanathan Anand, the Great Chess Genius). Some scientists dispute IQ entirely and warn that it can be used for scientific racism. Its outdated methodology and the case of Test Bias are often pointed out by the scientists and psychologists alike. Some Scientists criticize IQ on the grounds that IQ tests only examine particular areas embodied by the broadest notion of "intelligence", failing to account for certain areas which are also associated with "intelligence" such as creativity or emotional intelligence.

Moreover, Modern Science has made important headways in the study of mind and behaviour which have almost made the old beliefs regarding IQ and Intelligence less important -if not irrelevant at all. The evolving scientific discipline of Cognitive Science has almost occupied the space earlier occupied by IQ and intelligence. It includes research not only on intelligence but on behavior as well, especially focusing on how information is represented, processed, and transformed in faculties such as perception, language, memory, reasoning, and emotion. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, computer science, anthropology, sociology, and biology.

(It is quite interesting here to note that Science, by its very nature, is inconsistent in its truth claims. It renders its earlier truth claims null and void at a later stage. Then, it wont be unfair - at least for the argument sake - to argue that it will be irrational to abandon ones traditional beliefs that stood the test of the aeons for the sake of an ever-changing Science in which no truth has a an eternal appeal.)

God knows better

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