[SkyPilot]

Two points regarding this article:

1. Whenever geneticists talk about "manipulating" or "switching on" things, I get nervous about them playing God. "Paging Dr. Mengele. Dr. Mengele, please pick up the White Courtesy Phone."

2. The fact that someone's intelligence is largely genetic has been proven time and again by researchers, this is simply the latest study published.

Intelligence is different from wisdom. Some people have IQs off the charts, but they are wicked people. The reverse is also true. True wisdom and discernment come from God.

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." Proverbs 9:10

Intelligence is also a gift from God. He gives each of us different gifts. Some of us are given incredible beauty, some are given athletic ability, some are given musical talent, some are given higher intellect.

Where these discussion always get ugly quickly is when someone makes the logical connection that some races of human beings (who more closely share genetic code within their race). Dr. Charles Murry and Dr. Richard Herrnstein found this out when they published the book "The Bell Curve" in 1994.

So did Dr. Richard Lynn and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen when they published "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" in 2002.

[SkyPilot]

Apologize for the typo. It should have read:

Where these discussion always get ugly quickly is when someone makes the logical connection that some races of human beings consistently demonstrate higher IQ scores in almost every reliable test than do other races.

[bert]

the genes in the discussion are the gift of which you speak

———when the genes are mutated or in the wrong order——

they got this part wrong. lack of intelligence is likely the norm and the mutations produced increased intelligence

[gattaca]

bump

[IChing]

100% straight-up racialistic racialisms!!!!

[meatloaf]

[metmom]

The problem is that our society has come to place too high a value on intellectual acumen while ignoring the value of other character traits and other gifts and abilities that do not translate directly into intellectual prowess.

We’ve devalued much of what makes a person and exalted only one aspect of what makes a human being a human being.

It’s wreaked havoc on our society and people’s lives.

[IronJack]

At the risk of being called a racist (which is something one does these days simply by ordering a taco), is it possible that the genes for intelligence are stronger in some races than in others, which would account for the continuing disparity in success rates between those groups, despite countless trillions of dollars and decades spent trying to erase a biological reality?

[Paradox]

I’ve always chuckled at the graphs showing comparative IQ’s for groups, by ethnicity. My modest 135 IQ, while nothing to sneer at overall, makes me a freakin Einstein among “my fellow hispanics”...

[Norm Lenhart]

Now we will have selective abortions to go with it . Quality of life you know.

[Seruzawa]

My bet is that this study will be shown to be bogus just like every other study that pretended to find behavioral genes.

[PIF]

Graphic makes no sense - Australia, Denmark, France, and Mongolia are wealthier than the US, but all have the same 98 IQ?

[TexasFreeper2009]

The left is always accusing US of being anti science.

Lets see how much they accept this science.

[SandRat]

All this is great, but how about finding out how to Heal/CURE TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Victims?

[libertylover]

I’ve often wondered about these IQ measurements vs. race etc. Specifically, I wonder if IQ tests perhaps measure problem solving of a particular sort and that perhaps the variations in results are really because people of different races solve problems in different ways. Your thoughts?

[BlueDragon]

'Intelligence genes discovered to be smarty pants'.

What was the question again?

[ReformedBeckite]

Intelligence is also a gift from God....

I don't know about the part of it being a gift from God, but I don't want to get into any long drawn out arguments about it though, other then to say there will be many individuals that when they reach the judgement seat of God they will be sent to hell because they did not have saving faith in Jesus Christ which is a gift from God. Having just said what I just said can't see intellect as being a gift from God, maybe a blessing but I have a tendency to not even believe that.

If it is a blessing it probably is more of a blessing that is giving indirectly to many individuals through the medium of one individual. Basically God using one individual(that really isn't blessed) to bless others down the line of history that are part of a greater or real blessing. I would like to get into my reasoning more but I think I will leave it at my short comment or feeble attempt to explain my thoughts on the subject at hand, and hope some one understands what I'm trying to say.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The problem with "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" is that where they had no data they just made it up.

[Recompennation]

manipulating” or “switching on” things
I think they are referring to what I call trying to make chicken salad out of chicken s**t. Just won’t work.

[djf]

Worms.
Can.

Big ass!

[TexasTransplant]

***** “75 per cent of IQ is genetic” *****

Son Nuclear Power-plant Operator
Daughter Linguistic Anthropologist, Historian, Author
Daughter Theoretical Mathematician, Statistical Mathematician

Me = salesman
So the Wife must have cheated on me a few times... gonna be an interesting conversation ;^)