Is a person of character who washes toilets for a living better than a person lacking character smugly doing big deals with a cell phone glued to their ear?
Or:
A man is a Janitor for eight hours a day and comes home to his apartment to be with his children every evening; whereas another man spends seventy hours a week working so he can own a mansion and afford the Janitor.
There is a big error in a lot of these arguments that intelligence is everything. You're right; character is more important. When someone dies, are people more likely to remember how smart someone was or what a good person they were? What good is intelligence without morals, ethics, or integrity? What would this world be without someone who is willing to do the menial jobs? For example, I really appreciate our trash collectors. If it weren't for them being out in all kinds of weather, we'd have all kinds of problems with rats and disease. While medical science can cure a lot, trash collectors can prevent a lot. Which is more important?
My response:
Why not do both?? You can be educated, accomplished, and even a scientist and also be a Christian, a family man (person), and spend time with your kids and family.
One of my best friends, whom I have known since we were in graduate school together, certainly can do both. He is an MIT Ph.D; a competent and successful scientist by any measure. However, every year for the past 20 years he and his wife have lead his church group to Mexico to build 4 homes over spring break. They take about 80 high school kids to do it. My daughter goes every year. Most will go all 4 years of high school.
It is possible to do both.
There is no positive correlation between being uneducated and being good. Or being educated and being un-Christian. They are simply separate issues. The simple fact is that believing in the obvious science and evidence for evolution does not make one anti-God or anti-religion. However, it is arguably true that being anti-evolution is clearly being anti-education and anti-science.
Thanks for pointing that out. It reminds me of Hillary's school-to-work program that rewards and penalizes kids according to their belief system. What a typically elitist attitude: "Your kids are creationists so we will punish them." The same bunch that whines about alleged witch burnings enjoys conducting its own witch hunts.