[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I don't see what the big issue is here. Jews got smarter because of natural selection. Through 15 centuries of oppression, the Jews who were smarter could get the positions necessary to ensure (more or less) that they were protected, and had the financial resources to have larger families better provided for, more children surviving to adulthood, better prospects for other high-IQ mates, and so forth, so they would have higher IQ children, hence the average Ashkenazi IQ moved up over time. What's so controversial or hard to understand about that?

Question for the people who think that any talk about IQ and heredity automatically equals eugenics and Naziism - If you accept the principle of natural selection, which even most creationists as well as all evolutionists accept, then why can you not see the same principle at work here? On a scientific level, do you think human genetics operates any differently from that of the animals, which we routinely breed for the purposes of expressing specific traits?

[squireofgothos]

I think it’s primarily the financing that makes it funny. Next, the Pakistani’s are going to evolve a spatula arm to flip the hot dogs at the 7-11’s

[wideawake]

I don't see what the big issue is here. Jews got smarter because of natural selection.

Except for the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of the Jews who worked in finance and the professions were murdered during the Second World War, and the bulk of modern Jewry are descendants of the dirt poor shtetl Jews of Poland and the Ukraine and the similarly circumstanced Mizrachim of Northern Africa.

It is obvious that from the days of at least the Babylonian Captivity the Jews had a reputation as a highly learned and competent population.

[Greg F]

To throw in my two cents . . . I think women like funny men. They choose them. Men get wittier and wittier. I am a prime example of this trend.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Question for the people who think that any talk about IQ and heredity automatically equals eugenics and Naziism - If you accept the principle of natural selection, which even most creationists as well as all evolutionists accept, then why can you not see the same principle at work here? On a scientific level, do you think human genetics operates any differently from that of the animals, which we routinely breed for the purposes of expressing specific traits?

Oh, I don't know . . . maybe it has something to do with a little thing called the human soul???

Of course, if you think that the human soul is actually just biochemical reactions in the brain . . .