Well-known science writer Nicholas Wade is about to publish a book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, attempting to reopen the discussion of racial differences based on modern genetics.
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Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.
Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.
The elided part above is the usual disclaimers about how toxic racism is.
Not clear why Wade thinks a conversation on the importance of race is “overdue.” Did someone blink and miss a couple of hundred?
Wade believes that Darwinian evolution is ongoing. As we try to explain patiently here, what is usually called racism is an inevitable conclusion from explicitly Darwinian evolution theory, a conclusion Darwin himself drew. As noted earlier, it was not invented by Darwinians nor is it a position adopted out of bad will; it is simply the logic of the theory that over time human groups will diverge into higher and lower (by someone’s standard).
Some of us wonder just how much modern genetics contributes to all this besides talking points. Didn’t many people always think themselves superior to “those other people”? Who turned out to think the same of them?
Never mind, the people who whisper that this book will be controversial are in little danger of being wrong. Stay tuned.
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Here’s Wade on the evolution of religion (can’t find a vid discussing the forthcoming book, but this may give a general idea of the approach):
OT: News, you might be interested in this interview I recently came across.
University of California, San Diego philosophy professor Dr. Patricia Churchland (I think I’ve seen that name come up here) gets snippy and flippant during an interview, finally hanging up twice in the interview because of the questions being asked:
http://www.skeptiko.com/237-pa.....xperience/
interview audio link:
http://www.skeptiko.com/upload.....chland.mp3
The, ahem, ‘non-racist’ Charles Darwin stated:
Yet contrary to what Darwin presupposed, it is found that the differences between individuals in a population are far greater than differences between populations:
As well, contrary to Hitler’s master race presupposition, it is found that Europeans are ‘de-evolving’,,
Moreover, the variations that do occur in the ‘recent’ sub-populations of the original African population are found to be deleterious,,
Here are two examples of deleterious mutations in Europeans that may surprise some racist people,,
I wonder what Hitler would have thought of these studies showing that Europeans are less genetically robust than their African forebears?
This next study, which supports the principle of genetic entropy (John Sanford), would have really messed with Hitler’s head;
Along that line, the I.Q. tests, that have shown supposed large differences in the intelligence between races of humans, are all shown to be biased by overlooked environmental factors:
Verse and Music:
Some people get hung up on the subject. 😉
To further undermine Darwin’s thinking:
I have found a ‘top down’ Theistic structure to the human body instead of the bottom up materialistic structure as was presupposed by Charles Darwin. The correct ‘top down’ structure for how our bodies are constructed ‘top down’ is as such.
Light is found to be directing/patterning the material particles/molecules of the body. To see this process first hand is amazing:
In fact biophotons, besides patterning the morphological structure of our bodies, are also found to be involved in orchestrating the chemical processes of the molecules of our body.
Moreover, as with ‘the electric frog face’, we can also ‘see’ biophotons being emitted from the human body in their regular maintenance of the body:
The next higher level of the human body is quantum information. Theoretically reducing an entire human body, every atom and photon, to quantum information, and teleporting it to another location in the universe, is discussed here:
And this ‘spooky’, beyond space and time, quantum information is now found in the human body on a massive scale,, in every protein and DNA molecule:
Establishing consciousness as the highest level present in the human body is a bit trickier since, as Planck and Schrodinger stated,,
Yet from ‘geometric considerations’ in Quantum Symmetries (and even the universe as a whole) it was possible for Eugene Wigner to pinpoint consciousness as the ‘highest level’ of reality present in our bodies:
,,, Here is Wigner commenting on the key experiment that led Wigner to his Nobel Prize winning work on quantum symmetries,,,
i.e. In the experiment the ‘world’ (i.e. the universe) does not have a ‘privileged center’. Yet strangely, the conscious observer does exhibit a ‘privileged center’. This is since the ‘matrix’, which determines which vector will be used to describe the particle in the experiment, is ‘observer-centric’ in its origination! Wigner stated this in regard to his work in symmetries (and quantum mechanics in general):
Also of note:
Thus Charles Darwin’s entire ‘bottom up’ materialistic worldview is in fact found to be completely backwards as to the way the human body is actually found to be structured.
Verse:
AHA. Indeed I have noticed for years the increasing need and desire of evolutionism to settle that mankind is superior/inferior based on race and sex.
They just didn’t like it when the answers were whites, Aryans, men.
if its Asians and Jews and women then its okay.
I welcome it.
Creationists rightly insist evolutionism leads to conclusions that men are not created equal in innate smarts.
The holocaust and the black issue simply slowed down these concepts.
They are ready to bring up it again and use it to design civilization.
Creationists can attack evolution as leading to racial or racist or sexist conclusions.
This author does not expect to get hurt but in his circles already expects to change conclusions and society.
While Obama is president.
They already really do put the black Africans as the inferior peoples. A sad thing is coming for black people just as they were getting confident.
lets get these clowns.
First demand on what basis are not English people being said to most superior?
Chinese people were the least successful of all mankind relative to numbers and historic opportunity. This is the reflection on intelligence. Not immigrants to North America.
Jews are also only immigrants to countries and only successful relative to that country.
It only counts where segregated peoples act on their own.
Its absurd to say a immigrant is not brought up by the native.
This is a English protestant world and its unrelated to DNA. Its all about Gods blessing, the true faith, and motivation relative to opportunity.
There is no difference between a African, Indian, korean, Jew, Irish Catholic immigrant to a English nation. they all rise upon assimilation but its just a English score. Not a ethnic score obviously.
This is a another great gift to creationism.
Evolution and race in these days can quicker break the publics trust in evolutionists competence.
We need another great debate.
Sad but it was coming to this.