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Evolution. Does it come with an IQ? Does the IQ develop along the way.

Posted by GOG on May 25, 2026, 6:28 pm

Does God have an IQ?

IQ is an arbitrary unit of little value. Intelligence is far too complex to be evaluated by a number

Posted by DFM on May 26, 2026, 2:08 pm, in reply to "Evolution. Does it come with an IQ? Does the IQ develop along the way. "

Agreed.

Posted by 7:77 on May 26, 2026, 7:59 pm, in reply to "IQ is an arbitrary unit of little value. Intelligence is far too complex to be evaluated by a number"

I've taken pretty much every standardized IQ test there is, most more than once. What do they tell me? That I'm ultramegasupersmart?

LOL...not really. The results tell me that I'm a reasonably smart person who happens to be really good at taking tests. Intelligence is indeed far too complex a matter to be more than superficially ordinalized/empiricized by such testing.

Personally, I am VERY GOOD at Mathematics & Sciences. Otherwise, just average.

Posted by DFM on May 27, 2026, 12:39 pm, in reply to "Agreed."

Example: 950 out of 950 in GRE for Mathematics. It does mean that I am a genius, but it DOES mean that I studied very hard (70 hr/week for years) and actually learned the material well. It does NOT make me an outstanding mathematician like Karl Gauss or Emmy Noether.

Oh shoot! Then my testing out at 190 means very little. Haha.

Posted by GOG on May 27, 2026, 7:11 am, in reply to "Agreed."

Just kidding. But some of us are obviously dumb. The smart thing is recognizing limitations, and not get in over one’s head. Find that niche, and not seek to be something that never can be. And never cease to strive for improving one’s personal life. Having said all this much mush, obviously “Evolution” was beyond genius. While not quantifiable in test numbers, that we exist is qualifiable and evidence of a supernatural ‘IQ’ imo.

Definitely "beyond genius."

Posted by 7:77 on May 27, 2026, 11:05 am, in reply to "Oh shoot! Then my testing out at 190 means very little. Haha. "

The complexities of evolution, particularly when one incorporates thee vast spans of time involved, the incomprehensible numbers of individual allele transmissions, etc., are orders of magnitude beyond the computational capacity of any human (or, thus far, the tools we create). "Field too large" and all that.

"Supernatural"? You don't really believe that crap, do you?

Posted by Cheap Seats Shaman *= on May 27, 2026, 10:39 am, in reply to "Oh shoot! Then my testing out at 190 means very little. Haha. "

It doesn't sit well with the religious community that there is intelligence and technology far superior to ours?

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