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To: Heartlander
The very fact that this Professor is arguing this
is evidence of her exceptional, but warped, nature.
No (non-human) Animal, Plant, or Mineral
would be able to conceive of this.

It requires a a lot of cognitive firepower
to act this stupid.

6 posted on 01/21/2014 5:37:04 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge
"The very fact that this Professor is arguing this is evidence of her exceptional, but warped, nature. ..."

True:

"....Yesterday a commenter who is himself brimming with rudimentary intelligence took issue with my statement that "either natural selection explains our intelligence, or our intelligence explains natural selection. You can't have it both ways." Instead, the commenter declared that "natural selection is the cause of our intelligence; in turn, our intelligence provides the written and/or verbal explanation of natural selection. Problem solved; now we have it both ways."

The tail-chasing circularity of this dogomatic barkument should be evident [to us]. It is logically equivalent to saying that truth and intelligence do not exist, since they may be reduced to blind natural selection. With such a view, there is not even an ontological basis to draw a fundamental distinction between animal and human intelligence, much less between the evolved brain and the uncreated intellect.

HERE: On the Intelligence of the Stupid and the Stupidity of the Intelligent

bttt

10 posted on 01/21/2014 6:00:09 AM PST by Matchett-PI (It's a single step from relativism to barbarism, low information to Democrat, ignorance to tenure)
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To: HangnJudge
"..It requires a a lot of cognitive firepower to act this stupid."

Unintelligent people are usually just plain wrong, so we don't have to worry much about them. On the other hand, in order to attain truly deep stupidity, one must generally be of above average intelligence.

HERE: Deep Stupidity and the Medicine for a Nightmare

bttt

11 posted on 01/21/2014 6:27:27 AM PST by Matchett-PI (It's a single step from relativism to barbarism, low information to Democrat, ignorance to tenure)
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