Humans are Becoming Genetically Less Intelligent

[Andrew Chung]

1. Human intelligence is largely hereditary.

2. Civilization depends totally upon innate intelligence. Without innate intelligence, civilization would never have been created. When intelligence declines, so does civilization.

3. The higher the level of civilization, the better off the population. Civilization is not an either-or proposition. Rather, it's a matter of degree, and each degree, up or down, affects the well-being of every citizen.

4. At the present time, we are evolving to become less intelligent with each new generation. Why is this happening? Simple: the least-intelligent people are having the most children.

5. Unless we halt or reverse this trend, our civilization will invariably decline. Any decline in civilization produces a commensurate increase in the collective "misery quotient."

Logic and scientific evidence stand behind each statement listed above, see Neoeugenics.com

So, what are your thoughts?

Regards.

[Epsilon=One]

1. Human intelligence is largely hereditary.

2. Civilization depends totally upon innate intelligence. Without innate intelligence, civilization would never have been created. When intelligence declines, so does civilization.

3. The higher the level of civilization, the better off the population. Civilization is not an either-or proposition. Rather, it's a matter of degree, and each degree, up or down, affects the well-being of every citizen.

4. At the present time, we are evolving to become less intelligent with each new generation. Why is this happening? Simple: the least-intelligent people are having the most children.

5. Unless we halt or reverse this trend, our civilization will invariably decline. Any decline in civilization produces a commensurate increase in the collective "misery quotient."

Logic and scientific evidence stand behind each statement listed above, see Neoeugenics.com

...what are your thoughts?You have arrived at conclusions that are not warranted by your facts.

In your first statement you concede doubt/certainty with the word "largely."

In the following statements your definitions are vague and your conclusions do not reflect the vagueness of your axiomatic definitions.

You state that something is "Simple"; which it is not; in fact the issue is quite complex. You tend to move toward certainties in your arguments from uncertainties and vagueness in your premises. Logic cannot tolerate such inanities.

Neither logic nor scientific evidence can support your conclusions; though your premise statements may be derived from both "logic" and "scientific evidence"; both of which are quite often badly mistaken.

Finally, we effectively use such a small proportion of our "innate intelligence" that any temporary partial erosion (which is doubtful under your scenario) has little overall effect when considering the many greater factors that account for the "misery quotient"; such as: war, poverty, politics, economics, religion, etc.

I would argue that the misguided premises of Neoeugenics is a larger factor contributing to the overall "misery quotient" than any overall effects from from who is and isn't progenating.

[chrisforbes]

What a load of subjective nonsense. Some of the greatest minds in human history have been born into large impoverished families. This type of prejudice leads down dark roads to which there is no return.

Are you saying that we should disregard the last 2,500 years of human history on the basis that one generation may not appear as well schooled as the next. You can imagine what the artists said when the post modernists came along, or what the luddities did with the advent of machinery.

Further studies in history should help you join the dots.

[blackgem]

Also, the objective evidence simply does not support this - successive generations have been getting more intelligent, not less. However, the emphasis of intelligence has changed from simple cognitive knowledge to the need for meta-cognitive skills, in other words it's no longer about what you know but how good you are at learning.

[chrisforbes]

Anyone can pass a test through training and understanding the method. Lateral thought is harder, life is a jigsaw!

[WonderingWorm]

I googled " humans are less intelligent now" because was reading about some discoveries of ancient history and wondering why today sophisticated man was not able to explain the science and the old technology. Being an electronic student I learn theories and absolutes. I also learn that new technology derives from old.

There is this video on youtube youtube.com/watch?v=eUKU1Ts7k9o"](hidden civilizations) talkig about this underground civilization that has no electricity, but as you enter the underground cavern it lights up as you progress through it. How do you explain that? In Peru we have seen the land with ancient carvings that can only be viewed from the sky, that too is a mystery. I could go on.

Man has always fought about religion, If you look at the bible as a historical reference in the creation of man and his fall. We would know that man is in a declining state, based on his disobedience to the natural order. Remember Noah lived to be 900 and we are lucky to get passed 70.

If you read the "Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee Houston", here you will find much more science and technology that hasn't or wont be explained by man.

I'm personally irritated when I come across a man that never says he doesn't know. Its too many unexplain evidence that at some point that man had more sense and enginuity than today


You have arrived at conclusions that are not warranted by your facts.

In your first statement you concede doubt/certainty with the word "largely."

In the following statements your definitions are vague and your conclusions do not reflect the vagueness of your axiomatic definitions.

You state that something is "Simple"; which it is not; in fact the issue is quite complex. You tend to move toward certainties in your arguments from uncertainties and vagueness in your premises. Logic cannot tolerate such inanities.

Neither logic nor scientific evidence can support your conclusions; though your premise statements may be derived from both "logic" and "scientific evidence"; both of which are quite often badly mistaken.

Finally, we effectively use such a small proportion of our "innate intelligence" that any temporary partial erosion (which is doubtful under your scenario) has little overall effect when considering the many greater factors that account for the "misery quotient"; such as: war, poverty, politics, economics, religion, etc.

I would argue that the misguided premises of Neoeugenics is a larger factor contributing to the overall "misery quotient" than any overall effects from from who is and isn't progenating.

[jklm538]

i don't think so

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