Religious people are less intelligent than atheists

[Mister Agenda]

What I getting at is that the OP refutes itself with it's stupid premise.

The OP is talking about averages and you're taking about exceptions. Not only does the OP not refute itself, your response is not a refutation.

There's an interesting and not very large difference on average between the scores theists get on IQ tests and the scores atheists get, particularly in the sections concerning analytical ability, and in that one area the difference is significant, in the statistical sense of 'significant difference'. This doesn't preclude theistic geniuses or atheistic morons; and the difference isn't a premise but a finding. It doesn't mean atheists are right or will be more successful in life in general, though they may on average have some edge in fields where analytical aptitude is an asset.

A lot of hay can be made of the significance of the finding, whether it will be born out in follow-up studies, what causes it, whether it matters what country the study is done in, and what it means; but it in no way implies that theists can't produce great scientific geniuses.