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"Intelligent" doesn't mean "cares about the truth", anymore than "intelligent" means "moral/ethical". Intelligent more than likely just means maximizes goals while expounding the least effort. I've known quite a few intelligent religious people, and their goals simply aren't to find "the truth". To them, religion is more like cheesecake.
So what would you conclude about someone to whom "pi=4" was more like cheesecake?
I would conclude a deficit of general appreciation of why beliefs are not like cheesecake, a specific deficit of mathematics, and various other algorithmic deficits.
Pi=4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xYjiL8yyE
(Sadly, Vi Hart rejects the obvious proof.)