DuracellEnergizer said:
...And this here -- this more than any of their ignorant stances on evolution, overpopulation, or religion -- is a perfect example of why I can't stand living with my parents, especially my dumb shit-for-brains father.
OOhhh! I can help!
Intuitive and Common Sense evaluation is a crucially important form of intelligence. Many if not most of the greatest scientific discoveries and inventions have been dependent upon it.
To be intelligent is to quickly process information and perceive valid points therein.
If your parents are able to intuit that the random evolution explanation is in fact full of holes and reasons to believe fabuluosly unlikely, if they can sense that the overpopulation concerns are being hyped in EXTREMELY dubious ways, by some EXTREMELY dubious characters, for EXTREMELY dubious purposes, if they can perceive that a Creator might wish to test his creations and so they remain unshaken and unsurprised by the ravings of "scientific" atheism...
...If they are able to do all of this in defiance of their lack of advanced university degrees and some patchiness in their educations due to basic life concerns... then you can take great comfort in the knowledge that your parents are, in fact, VASTLY more intelligent than YOU! :)