Eliezer said:

*** To all claiming that the judgment is too subtle to carry out, agree or disagree: "Someone could have the knowledge and intelligence to synthesize a mind from scratch on current hardware, reliably as an individual rather than by luck as one member of a mob, and yet be a creationist." ***

Strongly agree.

I'm not making any specific judgments about the particular Creationist you have in mind here (and I'm pretty sure I know who you mean)... but I see no reason to believe that Creationism renders an individual unable to solve the science and engineering problems involved in creating AGI. Understanding *mind* is one thing ... beliefs about cosmogony are another...

I note that there are many different belief systems lumped under the label of "Creationism" ... not all of them are stupid or anti-intellectual.... (Though, I do not accept any of them myself, being a lifelong atheist...)

And, there may be a statistical anticorrelation between Creationism and IQ ... but it's not so strong a relationship as to let you draw useful conclusions about individual cases in the face of more particular information about the people in question...

-- Ben G