Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 14^th, 2007 at 12:30pm:


To give us educated people something to argue against.

Connie..

get used to it..I used to get upset, but its debate and is not meant to be taken personally.

Its a touchy thing once we start singling out particular races for discusiion'...but it happens...the people behind some comments are very nice people(and that sounds like a contradiction but true), so dont write them off ok?

if you read what i said earlier i am not a creationist, i reserve my oppinion because i havnt found any "theory" to be solid enough...

some of you have very closed minds, just because i do not believe in evolution does not mean i have to believe creationism.

are you so pig headed that you think we are the most intelligent humans will ever be?, that is evolution must be true because thats the theory we currently believe, and the most logical thing we current can concieve?

You remind me of flat earthers in the 15th century.

we will get smarter as we evolve.

Says who? The theory of evolution does not rpedict that.

We are smarter than monkeys. However our cranial capacity is less than some now extinct 'relatives' (Neanderthals I think). There is no reason to expect our intelligence to continue to increase, or to think that there has been a gradual increase up till now. In fact there is good reason to think our intelligence is going down.

I hate to give you something else to wind people up with, but here goes. We have removed much of the selective pressure for intelligence, for example with welfare. If you reduce that pressure, intelligence will go down. If you want to maintain a healthy, strong, intelligent population you need to kill off the sick, weak and stupid, or at least prevent them from breeding. Not that I support any such measures, but that is what the theory of natural selection predicts.

However, even if those natural selective rpessures were still active, there is nothing to suggest that our intelligence would continue to go up. That's because there is a tradeoff between intelligence and energy consumption. Our intelligence would only continue to rise if something changed to that tradeoff.

So you agree that 'westerners' are now less intelligent and we should encourage people from less developed countries to immigrate so they can boost our gene pool?

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I think it was mentioned in the other thread that from a genetic perspective, race does not exist. However, I have heard that there is more genetic variation in a single African village than there was in the entire world outside of Africa, prior to recent mass movements out of Africa.

But according to Eugenics, westerners are now inferior.

You realise what this means don't you AN? You come from spoiled stock and your only chance of redemption lies in the arms of: