The people who believe in creationism aren't stupid, they really are just misinterpreting that story...
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Their first mistake was looking to the Bible for their science.
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No, they are stupid
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There's a difference between believing thousands of years of an accepted misinterpretation than being stupid.
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If you genuinely believe there was a garden of Eden about 10,000 years ago created shortly after earth itself with a talking snake, in the face of modern knowledge, intelligence isn't really a strong point.
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The problem is they're getting belief mixed up with science. People who are strong believers of the word written are given hope. They believe there is really more than just this life. It's when people of the word written take it too seriously, resulting in a clash of their belief and science. Many people don't even know what that story is about...
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Regardless, it's still idiotic to believe what I wrote above.
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But...Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein were avid readers of the Bible...can't be going around calling them stupid :(
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You can call a belief they held stupid, even if they themselves are wise. And out of them I doubt any believed the creation story literally