No the fact that the lower the intelligence a person has the more likely they are to breed completely disproves evolution.
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Evolution doesn't claim that if someone is more intelligent they are more likely to reproduce. In order to reproduce you simply need to be physically fit and be able to attract a mate. Which many animals do by using a quality that sets themselves apart. Sometimes that quality could be intelligence, sometimes strength, sometimes simply having brightly colored feathers. As a result evolution doesn't work toward a specific goal, such as creating a more intelligent species. It simply happens based on differences in the gene pool from generation to generation.
Only on the presumption that humanity has become progressively more intelligent; whereas, in fact, there is no good evidence for such a proposition. Great minds have existed throughout recorded history.
@libber
2008-Jun-16 10:08 PM
Doesn't disprove anything, it just shows we have kind of fucked up natural evolution. Yay, Idiocracy!
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That´s the sad thing.
So chances are high that the number of people who are mentaly incapable of understanding scientific theories like the theory of evolution (and therefore subscribe to creationism) will increase ;)
Well, he has a point.
It doesn't disprove evolution, because those creatures with the stupids are also more likely to die due to the stupids. The fact that they do not die in our current society is not disproof of evolution, but merely a sad portent of things to come...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyewL0oaWA
Does this explain why Catholics (and other religions) will breed their women non stop, even if it kills them?
Intellect is measured by education, not evolution, you nitwit.
the fact that the lower the intelligence a person has the more likely they are to breed
Translation: "I can't get laid, and it must be somebody else's fault."
I don't really think people of various intelligences are becoming more or less, I think mankind overall has been and is stupid, we just get more, but the real question is, is mankind, getting stupider, or are the stupids getting more numerous ?
My head hurts...
@Eden
it will eventually reach tipping point, where the "Intelligent" are so outnumbered by the "stupids" that they can't cope with the numbers.
So more will die thus evening it out a bit
If a person is of lower intelligence we can assume they have a lower income. The mortality rates among the poor are higher. Producing more children increases the chance of these offspring living to find a mate and the genes being passed. Someone of higher intelligence would have a higher income therefore fewer offspring would be needed as the higher income would afford a better education, medical care (mortality rate is lower) and status enabling the finding a potential mate easier. So, it would actually prove evolution.
how to rectify it, remove all warning lables that resulted from lawsuites. This is becuase the reason they werent originaly there is because the product designers thought that it would be common sense not to do that thing.
If we do that, we will have way less stupid people.
Actually I've heard something about this, it's statistical fact that lower IQ families have more children that highly educated families which could lead to decrease of intelligence but it still wouldn't disprove evolution, on the contrary.
This is why we need to take warning labels off of everything. If your dumb enough to think that a plastic bag makes a good toy for your child, well then, you deserve what you get.
Idiocracy is right. I'm on the fence as to whether to breed or not. Do I want to supply one more intelligent human? Or would I just be producing something to be tortured by the masses for being smart.
No it doesn't. First of all, that's a generalization, and second of all, if the smartest people in the world have conditions such as Asperger's which cause them not to desire sexual experience, then that is evidence for evolution because they would not breed. Evolution is not necessarily progress.
We have a saying in Germany:
Stupid is fucked easily.
So much for that. But in general our species doesn't seem too infatuated with intelligence.
I mean, did you know there are still people out there who think that some 2000 year old stories about a magic dude popping the universe into existence are real?
“No the fact that the lower the intelligence a person has the more likely they are to breed”
“completely disproves evolution.”
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