Do you also need me to drop you a ring whenever archaeologists dig up all transitional forms of various species before you will believe in evolution.
When did I say that I didn't believe in evolution? This is the third instance of you pulling left-field assumptions. And for the record, you don't 'believe' in something scientific. There are either facts to support its actuality, or there isn't. Evolution is real because evidence for it is overwhelmingly clear. Therefore you're technically right; I don't 'believe' in it but acknowledge it for the truth that it is.
Science is a self-correcting paradigm which offers the best possible explanation given the totality of the currently available data.
Science says nothing of what truth is - science merely gives us the best possible guess as to what is going on. Bet your life savings on the accuracy of science and you are making a pretty good bet. That's not to say it can't be wrong though.
Another left-field comment. This doesn't relate to our discussion. You almost certainly don't even understand what you just wrote.
Do you also need me to drop you a ring whenever archaeologists dig up all transitional forms of various species before you will believe in evolution.
When did I say that I didn't believe in evolution? This is the third instance of you pulling left-field assumptions. And for the record, you don't 'believe' in something scientific. There are either facts to support its actuality, or there isn't. Evolution is real because evidence for it is overwhelmingly clear. Therefore you're technically right; I don't 'believe' in it but acknowledge it for the truth that it is.
Dawkins' position is clear.
Dawkins gets caught up making the assumption that race, while it exists, is all about surface features:
"Inter-observer agreement suggests that racial classification is not totally uninformative, but what does it inform about? About things like eye shape and hair curliness. For some reason it seems to be the superficial, external, trivial characteristics that are correlated with race - perhaps especially facial characteristics."
....unfortunately, Dawkins doesn't offer any persuasive evidence for the cliché that race is just skin deep.
He offers evidence for it in the form of multiple books. And to repeat; it's laughable that you presume to know more than he does about anything, let alone biology. When your argument depends on assaulting the position of a scientist who has revolutionized the fields of zoology and evolutionary biology, you can't make it more clear that you're scrambling to get out of the quicksand. Stick to the gym, champ.
Dawkins also says:
"W.D. Hamilton is a good candidate for the title of most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin."
And?
As stated earlier, Dawkins still doesn't "want to" understand the human implications of what Hamilton was driving at with his theory of kin selection: that humans naturally tend to discriminate in favor of relatives, and a racial group is simply a partly inbred extended family.
He - whether you like it or not - does subscribe to Lewontin's fallacy; he is simply to cowardly to concede that. He - while pointing out differences - certainly hasn't presented any evidence to support his "it's merely skin deep" bullshit; quite frankly he wants to have his cake and eat it too. Context is everything; while you may be a one dimensional dullard, don't assume there is any inconsistency with my referencing of Dawkins here.
You don't know what he 'wants'. You can't accuse him of being a 'coward'. When you said earlier that he subscribes to Lewontin's fallacy, I have you a direct quote straight from him that proves that he doesn't, and all you can manage to belch out is that he's a coward because he actually does subscribe to it. What sense does that make? Where's your proof that he's "simply too cowardly to concede that"? You're really hopeless. I've lost all confidence in your ability to reason.
Just because you lack the necessary intellect to challenge Dawkins - much less think for yourself - don't assume the same is true for others.
I don't assume the same is true for others. Just you. You're in no position to challenge him. With your spurious sense of logic, weak ability to process even the most simplest of statements, and repeated left-field statements, you can't even challenge me, let alone someone as respected as Dawkins. You're simply delusional.
Your ignorance of the surrounding issues (including but not limited to: psychometric testing together with historical observation) allow us to fully understand why you cannot grasp what is being said here; why you have not even heard of the CHH paper.
Epic red herring. You're just blowing more hot gas.
You do realize that - as Pinker pointed out - a blue-ribbon panel appointed by the American Psychological Association defined the consensus view as embracing intelligence as a real and stable property; that IQ is a good measure of it; that it is a good predictor of success in life; and it is from 50 - 80% heritable.
Of course intelligence is a real and stable property. But where are the genetic ties with it to race? Oh, that's right, you already admitted in your post before last that there aren't currently any.
^^^ re-read that if it went over your head the first time.
Not necessary.
Now, here is the paper in question:
http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf
I'll read this when I'm home from work later tonight.
Historical observation, psychometric evidence all leading to the construction of the Cochran-Hardy-Harpending Hypothesis. As Cochran et al themselves say: "the hypothesis is consistent with the neo-Darwinian synthesis, the historical record, and the genetic and psychometric data"; it is, in short, a work that will be proven true at the biological level.
"Will be proven true" doesn't mean "is true". And for that matter, how do you know if it's going to be proven true or not? You don't. When you say "will be proven true", you actually mean (assuming that this 'CHH hypothesis' even relates to this discussion, which for now I'll bet that it doesn't) "I hope it will turn out to be true".
No one has yet presented an alternative to the Cochran-Hardy-Harpending theory that can match it for documentation, but go ahead, feel free to provide your alternative - oh hang on, you can't, you didn't even know about the CHH paper in the first place so it will be interesting to see how you use your Google-fu to work around that inconvenient little fact, oops.
Dimwit.
Google-fu? I haven't given you a single electronic link in any of my posts. I have, however, referenced direct quotes from books. Since you've given me three electronic links, including one
just beforeyou accuse me of "Google-fu", it seems as though you're the one guilty of this; not me.
Concluding thoughts - You couldn't even respond to the outstanding majority of my last post, where I owned you completely and thoroughly. You make spurious claims, then I refute them, then you switch focus to something else out of left field. You continually lose focus to my argument so many times that I'm left only to believe that you have to be doing it deliberately in an attempt to piss me off (which you're still unable to do). You specialize in the logical fallacy of the red-herring: introducing irrelevant topics in a feeble attempt to argue.
You introduce scientists and their 'hypotheses' with (Google) links, but don't even make an attempt to explain how they relate to the argument at hand - GENETIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACE AND IQ - NOT EVOLUTION, NOT DISEASE, NOT PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, NOT TAXONOMY OR CLASSIFICATION - and still have the audacity to accuse me of "Google-fu".
Your continual insults to me - calling me 'idiot', 'dimwit', 'moron', and etc demonstrates to me that you're very insecure about your intelligence, and on a subconcious level realizing that you've been destroyed here which is making you angrier and angrier with each word you type.
You've done nothing to support the contention that you can genetically justify a lower IQ in certain races. Rather, You've made several posts of weak, unrelated arguments, provided fuzzy and fallacious logic, and hurled childish, pathetically insecure personal attacks.
I'm a busy man, and thus have no more time to waste on you or this thread. You really are completely and utterly incapable of off-the-cuff thinking as Dr. Chimps so accurately stated, as well as extremly stubborn because you haven't yet admitted, nor will you admit, that you can't prove that there's a genetic relationship between race and IQ.
I leave your owning to be viewed for all posterity. Embrace it and learn from the experience, my son.
Our paths will no doubt cross many times to come on this board. I don't now, nor will I, hold anything against you, personally. Enjoy your day, and best regards.