This, in and of itself, doesn’t prove anything of course. Persuasive writing is used by the right and the wrong. However, I think it is a rather cheap tactic.

The fact you said ‘ethnic jews’, which describes people with Jewish parents that do not actively practice Judaism also has me somewhat baffled.”[/quote]
Your confusion stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the term “ethnic Jews”. An “ethnic Jew” refers to a person who has Jewish ancestry. The term is meant to differentiate from “religious Jews”, which are people of the Jewish religion. Whether you’re an “ethnic Jew” depends on whether your biological parents are of Jewish ancestry and won’t change. Whether you’re a “religious Jew” depends on your current religious views and therefore can change. It is possible to be either one of those things, or both, or neither.

Donlaudanny was speaking about people of Jewish ancestry, not people who follow the Jewish religion.

P.S. Your ending insult to him is quite ironic considering the ignorance you displayed in that post.

I can’t say anything about art or style since those are subjective, but Ethnic Jews are on average more intelligent. To deny this claim is like denying the claim that Kalenjin runners are on average faster. The disproportionate number of Nobel prizes is evidence for the former and the even greater disproportionate number of long distance running records for the later.

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002812.html

Not all humans are created equal. Some individual are larger, smarter, faster, etc. The same trends can be applied for races. Height and skin color are the most obvious. Intelligence has been heavily sexually selected for throughout human evolution, and is it such a leap to logic to state the selection pressure for intelligence might have been different depending on different geographical and cultural conditions?
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Help me understand this. How is it that people of a certain belief are “on average” more intelligent than people with different beliefs.
The fact you said ‘ethnic jews’, which describes people with Jewish parents that do not actively practice Judaism also has me somewhat baffled.
Since being Jewish is a religious belief choice….emphasis on choice, I’m not sure how you can say that “on average” Jews are more intelligent.
If I convert to Judaism tomorrow will I suddenly become smarter?

The shred of evidence you provided to support your ‘Jews are more intelligent’ theory is this…
[quote]donlaudanny said: “I am not Jewish.”[/quote]
That one statement seems to help prove that Jews are more intelligent, more intelligent than some anyway.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-34.60219,20.303051&spn=0.003117,0.007167&t=k&z=18&om=1

It’s worth noting that the Vela satellites discovered what turned out to be Gamma Ray Bursters – http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast19sep97_2.htm. The satellites had picked up several bursts of gamma rays coming from outer space. Stumped, the DoD and NASA decided to throw open the curtain of secrecy over the satellites and share the data with the astronomical community. It was quickly realized that this was an entirely new type of extragalactic object.

This wasn’t the only time the military shared its work with astronomers. When the astronomical community was trying to figure out how to account for atmospheric distortions in their latest telescopes, the DoD freely handed over their information on adaptive optics rather than see millions of dollars of taxpayer money be spent on something they had already perfected.

You can, but they aren’t kosher…

Yeah, I agree. Until there is science or hard stats behind something like that it is hard to know anything for sure, but it does pose a good question to ponder.