My dad has an officially tested IQ of 146 and believes evolution is a lie. Being smart often doesn't make you right, it mostly makes you more effective at believing what you believe.
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I wonder what he thinks when he sees breeds of dogs that are so different from one another. The dog breeders made them like that using artificial selection. Doesn't he think the selection process happens naturally driven by the environment instead of breeder?
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I forget his exact position, but the common position I heard growing up (that likely is similar to his) is that dog breeding is only losing information, not gaining; you shouldn't be able to breed a wolf out of a poodle.
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why does he believe it's a lie? maybe he has some profound insight or defines evolution in a different way.
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when I was a kid my parents had me do an official IQ test and I got 148
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Intelligence with low openness and high agreeableness just results in one being able to more thoroughly justify and rationalize whatever identity-bound-belief you have
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