Wasn’t one of the bigwigs on the human genome project a Christian or something?
No, although his is certainly a cite as well, but yours are just peachy!
there’s this guy Paul, but he’s probably not what you’re looking for.
She also said she believes that because English will one day become the sole world language learning any other is not only a waste of time, but counter productive. :rolleyes:
Intelligence /= Wisdom
In fact that wiki article on “theistic evolution” has a section on “Contemporary advocates of theistic evolution”:
You might scan through their bios and see how your theory holds up. I haven’t done so, but I’ll bet there’s somebody in there who came into religious belief later in life.
I would also point out the previous example of C S Lewis - he had a Christian upbringing, but became an avowed atheist as a young man until his conversion at around age 30.
Being well-educated and well-read have nothing to do with being a genius. Neither does having 10,000 hours of study or practice in a particular field. You don’t have to be extremely intelligent to read a lot and go to school.
Similarly, having an eidetic memory doesn’t imply intelligence. I’ve heard people referred to as very intelligent because they could quote any passage from the Bible (or Shakespeare, or whatever).
Intelligence connects to one’s ability to reason, and despite the preponderance of IQ tests these days (and our reliance on them in evaluating people), they are quite subjective.
So, getting to the OP, a lot depends on what one accepts as axiom before starting the process of reasoning. There are societies today where children are taught virtually from birth that there is a God and that’s it’s socially unacceptable to believe otherwise. I’m sure those societies have very intelligent people in them. I’m also sure (although it would be impossible to prove) that some of those very intelligent people have built self-consistent belief systems around the existence of God. Others have probably become closet atheists or agnostics.
“Only a man’s arrogance and pride forces him to invent God because he can’t accept the fact that neither his life nor his death are of importance or significance.” - Einstein
Isaac Newton was undeniably smart and he was a hardcore believer.
There are innumerable other examples. Galileo, DaVinci…depending on how you define “smart,” the list is endless. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were musical geniuses who all believed in God and made faith a theme in their work. Shakespeare was a literary genius who believed in God.
I don’t believe there is any necessary relationship between intelligence and belief. I think that intelligence will tend to make people more skeptical and questioning — Newton, for instance, did not think the Bible should always be read literally — but that doesn’t mean that great intelligence necessarily precludes a capacity for faith or belief in something transcendent.
I do think the religious views of smart people tends to be more nuanced, independent and thoughtful, though. It’s hard to find really intelligent YEC’s, for instance.
I believe the operative word is “are”, not “were”.
I see. So a direct quote from someone who actually asked him about the issue has no bearing?
This was in 1939, BTW. It’s possible that Einstein revised his feelings over time.
An anecdote told by a second-hand source seventy years after the fact has less authority than documented statements from Einstein himself, yes.
Yes, I would be interested mainly in those in the 20th century and on, at least. Many smart people 500 years thought the world was flat , etc. 
Francis S. Collins was the head of the Human Genome Project and is a devout Christian. He just wrote a book about it. In the book IIRC, he states that he was raised nothing-much, was an atheist for years, and then became a Christian.
Most educated people have known that the world is a sphere for over 2000 years; the Greeks knew it and it was known throughout the Middle Ages. The story that Columbus proved that the world was round is a sort of urban legend told by 19th century scholars who liked to think that everyone in the old days was stupid–a failing we also have. 
Here is a short history of the question for you.
Not only C.S. Lewis but his good friend “Tollers,” J.R.R. Tolkien, who was one smart cookie. Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter are usually acknowledged as two of our smartest presidents (and yes, I know they both made plenty of mistakes in office - who doesn’t?), and both were/are devout Christians.
Abdus Salam got a Nobel Prize in physics, and was a devout Muslim.
This article says that a 1997 survey done by Nature showed that 40% of scientists believe in a personal god that you could pray to.
“Are there any super smart people who believe in God?”
What makes the question a bit tricky to answer is, how do you decide who qualifies as a “super smart person”? (And, the question is wide open to being no-true-Scotsmanned by a hostile atheist: “That person’s belief in God shows that he’s really not all that smart!”)
I assume names of people that I know personally but you’ve never heard of aren’t what you’re looking for?
How’s this: Dopers are super smart, and some of them believe in God.
Here’s another name to throw on the list: Martin Gardner. You can read his explanation of why he believes in God, and find plenty of evidence that he’s super-smart, in his book The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener.
Aside from at least three contemporary notables already mentioned (Plantinga, Dyson, and Collins), there are Jeffrey L. Stout, Mark Juergensmeyer, Linda L. Barnes, Douglas R. McGaughey, Jane Marie Law, Donna Bowman, W. Clark Gilpin, Davina C. Lopez, Hans J. Hillerbrand, Richard M. Jaffe, Susan M. Maloney, Anthony B. Pinn, Francis X. Clooney, Michelene Pesantubbee, Charles Hartshorne, and a host of others.
How about Bill Clinton? Everyone goes on and on about how smart he was, at least in comparison to some, and he seems to really believe in God.
Of course, since public profession of religious belief is a de facto requirement for holding public office here in the US, I suspect there are plenty of political figures who say one thing in public and keep their true beliefs to themselves.
I guess it wasn’t obvious, and that’s my fault, but my use of “well-read” and “far better educated” simply meant that these guys were really, really, really sharp characters. They were hot stuff, real boffins, at least compared to my puny intellect. And they were believers. I figured they might just squeak into the so-called “super smart” category. Maybe I was wrong.
I’m not gonna start searching, but I’ve read more than one article that claimed the 10,000 hour mark as one of the most common characteristics of the people who have the genius label slapped on them. I named a couple of the other characteristics – an encouraging mentor, and discipline. My only point, in any case, was that the “super smart” however you define them, don’t necessarily have a leg up on the rest of us in every category of thought.