Well, you certainly pass the critical thinking of any such article I might dream up in the future.
I gather from the information I read about the correlation discussed is that a believer's first attempt to explain something they don't understand is to invoke God or some supernatural explanation.
So, I want to improve the first knee jerk reaction in such people to understand that they have a mind and then to use it in the puzzling event to find a rational explanation.
The selection of quotes I used was less than ideal. I never read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Apparently, the character is turning from a human into a bug of some kind. So, finding a rational explanation for that is going to be lacking.
I did better in the second quote, but that was really flowery writing devoid of needing a supernatural description for salesmanship.
I did what I wanted in the third quote as this is the Bible verse Neil de Grasse Tyson (a cosmologist) rails against. The passage would clearly require the supernatural to pull off as described. But, as Dr. Tyson points out, those writers clearly don't know what those things are. The stars are not going to fall from the night sky to earth no matter how strong the wind is to shake the figs from the tree .
Can intelligence fail a person? Sure. I saw a very intelligent once try to figure out how to use a hand can opener. He was high society and probably never used a can opener before being down on his luck when I knew him. Apparently, one needs to be shown something like that as it a very high IQ won't allow one to just "figure it out." Marilyn Voss Savant (the person with the world record IQ) tries to use her intellect to disprove math theorems she thinks are incorrect. If something is established as a math theorem, it is correct. If one "disagrees" with it, the fault lies in the disagreer, not the math theorem. No amount of effort on her part will make her right.
But, where high IQ can lead one astray, while being comical perhaps, is not in my interest because I just want to improve the general facility of people away from the first crack at an explanation using the supernatural.
So, my next iteration of this exercise will be quite improved. I may even have to dream up my own passages and not use quoted material.
Thank you for your display of critical thinking. I find your writing to be of excellent quality. You should do well here on Medium if you stick to it.