On Human Race: IQ
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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God has given to men many attributes, and these attributes are not evenly or equally distributed. Some men are taller than others; some men are faster than others; and some men are more intelligent than others. The subject to human intelligence — IQ — makes many uncomfortable for a number of reasons, but it is no less real and no less a part of God’s good ordering of Creation than is height or any other attribute.
Intelligence is largely genetic — overwhelmingly so, in fact. If your parents are or were intelligent, then it is very likely that you will be so as well. This holds even more true for human populations (e.g., races), as they share a common genetic pool. Some races are more intelligent than others. IQ is not the same from one nation to the next.
Now, the issue of human intelligence can certainly be, in and of itself, a fascinating area of study or research, but that is not our primary concern; rather, we are concerned with how human intelligence interacts with the Church. Is there a minimum intelligence for the preservation of the Church and her treasury of God’s Word and truth? Can the Western Church survive if all her members are replaced with foreign souls? Can the Church survive the ongoing replacement of Europeans by alien peoples?
These are not idle questions and the answers are not so much a matter of life and death, but of eternal life and eternal death. We have been given a sacred trust — the Word of God and His bride, the Church. Whether we will be faithful or flounder remains to be seen, but the present trajectory is most certainly grim.
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Parental Warnings
- Some of the terms used in this episode are considered offensive in modern speech, but are all used in their technical sense.
- The show notes include an image and video clip with a number of expletives.
Errata
- When discussing the four-sigma numbers at ~00:07:21–00:07:38, I (Mahler) failed to note that I was working with a decimal chart and did not convert from decimal to percentage (which I should have done) and so stated — twice — that the four-sigma portion of the population is “point one percent”, when, in fact, I should have said that it is 0.001%. Point one percent of one when working in decimal (1.0 being 100) is, in fact, 0.001%, but it is decidedly unhelpful not to mention that one is working with a decimal chart, and thus implying 0.1%. (It is actually 0.000892201505099236%, but I suspect I can be forgiven for rounding.)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . |
| 0:03.0 | . Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm Woe. |
| 0:42.7 | Today's episode is part four of our series on race and why it matters to us as a Christian church, |
| 0:49.7 | why it matters in the world, why it's something that's real that has consequences that |
| 0:54.5 | we can't ignore and that Satan isn't ignoring. |
| 0:58.6 | Today's episode is specifically focusing entirely on IQ. |
| 1:02.2 | We're going to do this in two parts like many of our episodes. |
| 1:05.4 | The first half of this episode roughly is going to talk about what IQ is, what it is roughly that it's measuring, how it |
| 1:13.3 | works when you have people of different IQs that are markedly different. |
| 1:17.2 | What does that mean? |
| 1:18.1 | What does it mean when there's a significant difference between two individual men as far as |
| 1:23.8 | their measured IQ? |
| 1:25.9 | And we're going to give some personal examples. We're going to say some things are very gauche. I'm going to tell you what my IQ is, which is really offensive because that's like talking about how much money you make. Nobody does it. It's just, it's not socially acceptable. The reason that we're doing it in this episode is not to flex. It's not to brag or to say, hey, we're really smart, |
| 1:45.6 | you should listen to us. It's to give you a fixed point and space to relate your own experience |
| 1:52.2 | to our experience and to help to illustrate how different people's experiences are in their |
| 1:57.8 | lives. Because while we may be smarter than most of the people who are listening, |
| 2:02.0 | and we'll talk about the statistics involved in that, there are people to whom you are significantly |
| 2:07.4 | more intelligent. Any listener of this podcast is to the same degree more intelligent than |
| 2:15.5 | entire populations in the world. And that's why we're talking about it. |
| 2:20.3 | Because when you're dealing with your everyday life, your everyday experience, most people you run into are average, |
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