SHOCKING REVELATION: Athiest are smarter than the Religious

As reported on CNN some researchers put together a series of quizzes to test the religious and general knowledge of folks and the findings were surprising (to the religious ones). 

"Those who believe the Bible is the literal word of God did slightly worse than average, while those who say it is not the word of God scored slightly better." 

This shouldn't shock us but just in case here is another juicy quote. 

"Smith (the researcher) has a theory about why atheists did so well on the quiz - they have thought more about religion than most people..... The single strongest factor predicting how well a person does on the religious knowledge quiz is education - the more years of schooling a person has, the more they are likely to know about religion, regardless of how religious they consider themselves to be" 

 Soooo what you are saying is that the more one thinks about religion in general..... the less it makes sense. Stay in school punks!

Why do we keep building things like this?

For some reason the human race has an obsession with inventing things that will eventually (insert robot voice over) "KILL-ALL-HUMANS". The military is currently leading the way in kill-bot technology with the Predator drone planes and the deceptively housebroken sounding iRobot line of pre-Cambrianesque prototerminators. USA... USA.... USA!! (fyi I'm for some of these as they kill generic "evil doers" and save the lives of US troops)

But recently we have started to build robots that apparently want to "KILL-ALL-HUMANS AND MAKE THEM FUCKING SUFFER FOR NO REASON". Case in point is this super cute little baby robot. (read the original story here.)

Someone took a great deal of time to develop the mechanics and software required to bring this little guy to life. Once that was completed I imagine the engineers sat back and thought, "You know what this is missing?  The ability to shoot our ass with a damn bow and arrow!" Genius.  First they invent the Stabatron 3000 and now this.

 

Seriously..... why do we keep building these damn things?