@hellfrost Also remember that there’s a difference between intelligence and knowledge. Remember when people tell you that you do not understand something, it doesn’t mean that they think you are dumb, it can simply mean that they think you do not have the background knowledge required.
“Rocket scientist” == “Genius” is a common popular misconception. You can actually be of average to below average intelligence and be quite the effective rocket scientist, it’s just harder. OTOH, some of the most brilliant minds have put themselves into fairly menial tasks (Einstein’s Patent Inspector job, comes to mind, Ramanujan’s clerk job is another).
For that matter, I am very intelligent (no, I don’t know what my IQ is, nor do I really care), and enjoy knowing things. However, I do research to back up what I think I know.
For the most part, it doesn’t matter if people believe in creation or not, it only becomes a problem when it overlaps with things like education. As long as week can keep the creation/intelligent design people out of the science classroom (on the basis that it’s not science), it won’t be a problem.
But I think the greater problem is the general public not understanding that science is the study of that which can be observed, which makes ID have no place in the classroom (as, by definition, it cannot be observed).
shrug as someone else said: “The dark ages were really good for the people.”