Do you not see the conflict between the two lines of text you wrote?
In order to return to a merit-based system, we must first do away with the moral-relativistic lie that there are no differences between anything.
In order to do that, we need to re-establish a criteria of what is intelligence.
In order to do that, we need to draw a distinction between the capacity to think, to comprehend, to analyze, to synthesize and to create.
This student is pointing out what was accepted as fact up through the first half of the 20th century and which was overturned by the Boazian school of anthropology. In short, in the nature vs. nurture debate, the Boazians through out all nature and said that all differences between people were little more than a ‘social construct’ brought about by the evil, corrupt Judeo-Christian values and traditions upon which Western Civilization is founded.
It is an established (scientific, to those of you who worship at the altar of the physical science and scoff at metaphysics) that on average the brains of whites are larger and heavier than those of blacks.
This student is simply trying to extrapolate from that to determine whether — based upon the current thought stream that all human intelligence is strictly brain-related and has nothing to do with that silly, metaphysical notion of the Soul — that extra brain capacity equates to a higher overall intelligence (according to classical measures, not the current “self-esteem” and “self-expression” standards in the government-run schools).
I think this student’s science project is not only a sign of extreme courage, of true independence, but I think it is actually a sign of true genius given the current climate that abhors the differences inherent in God’s creation (a beautiful thing) and try to make the claim and to brainwash the masses into believing there are no difference except those caused by the evil, corrupt traditions and values of Western Civilization.
Well said.
Exactly.