I think the smug "I am probably more intelligent than them" comes from seeing that the mental model, even though it is mostly product of my up-bringing, require

I think the smug "I am probably more intelligent than them" comes from seeing that the mental model, even though it is mostly product of my up-bringing, requires less mental energy than theirs. I.e. I had many friends in evangelical circles when I was younger, and "Is evolution a thing" was a topic of debate. But when somebody started to go through his/her convoluted head-canon to have history line-up with creation 6000 years ago, global flood as it happened in Noah's story and God somehow forbidding the process of speciation I can't help myself think that my model is just better.