Anytime I hear this, I know the speaker has no formal scientific education and need no longer listen to him, since he's speaking out of ignorance.
I'm a Bible-believing Christian with a B/S in Chemistry and a doctorate in law. But I'm not a six-day creationist. That interpretation of Genesis is a creature of the fundamentalist movements of the 19th century, NOT of the historical Church.
that’s fine, but our greatest example of how to be was Jesus and he was not highly educated at all. Actually he was a carpenter yet he had amazing understanding of everything.