Hate to tell you but atheists are not smart, not even in the running.
The fact is your kind did not exist as such prior to 1950s when British professor Antony Flew wrote over thirty philosophical works which established the foundations for atheism for half a century.
His 1950 paper “Theology and Falsification” was the most reprinted philosophical publication of the 20th century. This is the man without whose ideas the various Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dennett, Wolpert, Stenger, (not to mention Christopher Hitchens and Pat Condell) et al, none of whom is a philosopher, would not have had rational arguments to support their faith: atheism.
Fact is pretty much every scientific discipline we have was founded by believers. So you have nothing to be smug about.
You assert there were no atheists before the 1950s and still make a claim of being able to think. I guess that sort of nonsensical assertion passes for thinking in your little wotld.