"Religious people tend to be smarter"

[Thumpalumpacus]

An interesting thing with science, is that it doesn't matter 99% of the time.  We're a very specialized culture.  Ben Carson believes all sorts of nonsense, and he was a Brain Surgeon.  

I believe in evolution.  What does that do for me?  It has no practical value.  That piece of "smartness" is more or less worthless.

Actually, it helps you on a day-to day basis. When you understand how evolution works, you understand why you need to complete your prescription of antibiotics even though you feel healthy with twelve pills still in the bottle. Ever hear that phrase, "the relapse is always worse"? There's a reason for it, and that reason is evolution.

And evolution is not the subject of belief. As a fact, it is only subject to acceptance or rejection.