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Some races are taller or stronger than others. If genetics can make a person bigger or stronger, is it possible that genetics can affect intelligence? Please explain your reasoning. Obviously, intelligence is affected by upbringing, but how do you explain the differences in intelligence because of race? People of…
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Some races are taller or stronger than others. If genetics can make a person bigger or stronger, is it possible that genetics can affect intelligence? Please explain your reasoning. Obviously, intelligence is affected by upbringing, but how do you explain the differences in intelligence because of race? People of Jewish descent are usually more intelligent (on average) than say africans americans, but african americans are much stronger and taller, and better at sports. Is the reason why genetics affecting intelligence is politically incorrect because it is not apparently obvious just by looking at someone?
Different races have different intelligence levels, this is a fact. Is it possible for genetics to play a role? or is it only culture?
I am not racist. I want to know what christiansskin analyzer camera think, as I am Jewish.

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Maikang I think some people might argue that minor mutations are different than speciation. A black person and a white person can make babies together just fine; the differences are little enough that they can still produce perfectly functional offspring. I don’t know that anyone with more brains than a rock is aruging about whether mutations occur and certain traits are selected for in certain populations. Human beings have managed to breed wolves until we got the toy poodle. The issue is more “How did the species that exist today come to be?” Although a toy poodle can still theoretically have babies with a wolf, a human just can’t breed with a cauliflower because we have a different number of chromosomes and different arrangement of the genes that we do share, even if we could get past the other hurdles. I think THAT is what the creationists (Note- this does not include me) take issue with.skin analyzer

Maikang ‘Different races have different intelligence levels’. Do you have any notion how many unquestioned implicit assumptions there are in these six words? Firstly, as others have stated, ‘race’ is a very dubious concept at the best of times, and when you start trying to apply it to a religious group (Jews) it becomes highly suspect since the only thing linking Jews is their religious/cultural identification. Secondly, all tests of intelligence suffer from inherent cultural bias. Just start by looking at what gets measured. It isn’t the ability to glance at a landscape and understand what’s going on in it and how to survive there, now is it? Doing ‘well’ in an intelligence test requires familiarity with its assumptions and an ability (which demands prior experience) to think in rationalistic and logical ways. I remember suffering agonies as a child on the tests they used on us where we had to choose the next in a sequence of pictures. I could make creative arguments for more than one and often the one that felt most satisfying was NOT the one that I, as a good middle-class child of academic parents, knew was the one they wanted.

I’m not sure why you’re asking this of Christians. The fact that you claim to be Jewish (which seems odd given that you imagine Jewishness to be a racial characteristic) doesn’t seem especially relevant, since not all Jews have the same attitude to this question, either.skin analyzer

Maikang The amount of things you know cannot really be measured exactly, although having an early start definitely helps. Some parents play Mozart to their unborn children, or recite math to them.

I think that genetically speaking, we have the basics of what we need, how long we will live, what color our eyes, that sort of thing, but to define intelligence or spirituality by genetics, that is not so easy. There are hundreds of thousands of unmapped genes, and to link a gene with a behavior rather than a trait, is something that cannot yet be done.skin analyzer

Maikang Hmm, a level 1 account asking an inherently prejudiced question like this? I’d bet you’re not Jewish at all, just another bigot posing as one in order to make us look bad.

Judaism isn’t a race. That definition comes out of 19th century attempts to recast their Judenhass (Jew-hate) in pseudoscientific terms. It made their prejudice seem more justifiable, which is exactly what you’re doing here regarding African-Americans.

It’s not a fact at all that different races have different intelligence levels. You’re insistence doesn’t make it true, just like Austrian and German claims about a Jewish ‘genetic inferiority’ were wrong.

Judaism is a religion and we include all races.skin analyzer

Maikang ROFL. Stupid is as stupid does. Is being a racist genetic or a behavior?

The comment that you are not a racist (are you thinking this a genetic condition and not a behavior, too?) reminds me of Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech after he ordered 5 “plumbers” to burglarize Democratic offices in the Watergate Hotel’.

and you sure aren’t Jewish or you wouldn’t be calling Judaism a race like the Nazis tried to do.skin analyzer

Maikang “Races” is a racist concept, you don’t understand that yet? There is but one human race, and you belong to it just like your dark skinned neighbor. Now I thought Judaism was a religion, has nothing to do with genetics? Here’s a question from the P.O. Files – if you dared, would you rather convert to Christianity or Africanism? Make sense smartypants?skin analyzer

Maikang I don’t see what Christianity has to do with it; but I do believe genetics must be factored in. I doubt culture has much to do with it, although certain people choose not to learn, or don’t have the availability to learn it doesn’t rule out their capability to learn.
In my family I’ve seen certain learning disabilities passed on to some of the members. I also believe that the Jews were God’s chosen people, and that we gentiles are grafted into God’s family when we come to faith as Abraham came to faith. Clearly the Jews have a special anointing from God, I love the Jews and their nation.skin analyzer

Maikang I don’t know about all Christians – but I do know my Catholic Irish father thought of Jews not as smarter, but as wiley, crafty, cheats. He thought of Asians as smart, Eastern Europeans as being hard workers, Hispanics as lazy, African descent as less intelligent. So he agreed with you on African Americans. Can you agree with him on Jews?

Religion does not stop prejudice.skin analyzer

Maikang dont you just hate it when people say something like “im not trying to be racist, but…” and then they say something racist?

there is absolutely no evidence that there is a difference between intelligence among the races based on their genetics/biologyskin analyzerMaikang There is only one race…….the human race! What does skin color have to do with intelligence? I am sorry but you do sound like a racist to me! If it quacks like a duck……….skin analyzer

Maikang there is only one race, Human.
Everybody is different
everybody is similar

Questions like these are indicative of intelligence levelsskin analyzer

Maikang You are kidding, right?

Where do these ‘facts’ come from?skin analyzer

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