I'm going to be the contrarian. I don't think you're stupid if you believe in biblical creation. You're simply making a choice of a belief system over science in an area that has absolutely nothing to do with your day to day life. As acts of faith go, it's not the same as getting torn apart by lions in the Colosseum.
My reality doesn't change one iota if my next-door neighbor believes in young-earth creationist theory. We can have a perfectly fine coexistence, and talk about sports or the weather or whose dog craps on more lawns. More to the point, my neighbor's existence doesn't change if I don't share his belief system.
So whether I believe in a Big Bang that happened billions of years ago or he believes in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago, our realities today are basically the same. We breathe the same air and drive on the same roads.
Granted, if he's right and I'm wrong he gets a ticket to paradise while I'm headed for hell, but that doesn't come into play until I'm dead, and my family still gets my life insurance no matter where I go for all eternity.
It's only an issue if that person's belief system starts to encroach on my life -- if he runs for the school board for the express purpose of imposing his religious views on the rest of us.
That's a problem, but it has nothing to do with intelligence.
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