tenkev wrote:A. There is no reason to put the adjective "scientific" in front of evidence. Evidence is evidence. Just a pet peeve of mine that people do all the time.
Fair enough. Any cursory look at history reveals more than enough evidence to prove, conclusively, that "race" has absolutely no bearing, whatsoever, on intellectual or technical ability. Western Europe was an intellectual backwater for much of the common era while Middle Eastern, North African, and Chinese civilizations flourished.
D. If you concede the fact that there are visible differences between the average bodies of people of different races; then, the burden of proof is on those who believe that those differences are confined only to the physical and not to the mental.
Apples and oranges. Physical characteristics are entirely the product of genetics; intelligence (a broad term) is very much reliant on environment. The achievement gap observed in American schools between blacks and whites is a product of a number of things (socio-economic, cultural and structural issues) that have nothing to do with genetics.


