<i>You describe me¹ as adopting voluntary stupidity. Could you give me some pointers as to where I'm being stupid.</i><p>When you say "I am a man of faith", followed by "I find macroevolution to be too large a leap based on the evidence I've seen," you're demonstrating that you hold an inconsistent worldview.  You demand an arbitrary, apparently-unmeetable standard of "evidence" from your biology teacher, while giving your anecdotal, irreproducible, and wholly subjective experience of "God" a free pass.  That's stupid.<p>However, your writing doesn't suggest any innate cognitive handicaps.  That's why I'm assuming the stupidity you exhibited above is voluntary.  It's something you could overcome with education and disciplined thinking, if you wanted to.