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To: Boogieman
I didnt say the idea we use 10 to 15 percent of our brain was true or false...or even believe it.... I simply stated if it was a true fact it would seem to be in conflict with Darwinian evolution via natural selection...

To have a random mutation to be favored by natural selection to become a past on in a genetic trait, it must be used so that brain capacity had to be used to give an advantage

So it should be proven scientific fact that we really use near the full capacity of our brain instead this old fib we use only 10 to 15 percent ...

even it we use 50 60 % of our brain it would not seem to fit with Darwinian natural selection evolution unless unless that one time we use the full capacity and then got stupider and just quit using it

just looking for some scientific fact what is the actual use of our brain capacity.. should be in 80’ 90 % area

... and FYI ....I'm not using this as an argument for intelligent design.... one does not have to be in favor of intelligent design to point out questions about Darwinian evolution

There are many things in the universe that neither intelligently designed nor evolved...

131 posted on 01/21/2015 5:45:14 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: tophat9000

“So it should be proven scientific fact that we really use near the full capacity of our brain instead this old fib we use only 10 to 15 percent ...”

Ah, I see what you are getting at there. Well, I think maybe the whole thing is framed in an ambiguous way. People talk about “capacity” or “potential”, but our brains aren’t like a bucket we fill up and can check where the level is at. So maybe we are just thinking about it all wrong.

We know that our brain is always making new connections and can adapt to some amazing degrees, so maybe we have to ask “is there a limit to how far we can push our brain?”


132 posted on 01/21/2015 6:09:54 PM PST by Boogieman
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