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What is Intelligence? 25
The actual behaviour of the evolutionists themselves, modern
intellectuals, and the educated and more highly evolved humans in
general demonstrates this fact.
For example, just statistically speaking, to pass on this “selfish gene”
effectively would seem to suggest having as large a brood of children as
possible, to ensure maximum chance of at least several of our progeny
surviving and passing and distributing in turn their genes as far and wide
as possible.
But we “educated” and “intelligent” citizens think small is beautiful. We
don’t seek families of dozens or thousands like farm yard animals and
insects do.
We demand quality of life, not mere survival.
We like to immerse ourselves in art, music, song, and indeed scientific
exploration for their own intrinsic worth, for their own sake.
And regardless of our evolutionary imperative of “survival” and even
“reproduction”, we will if our quality of life is sufficiently lacking decide
to “end it all” – we will commit the ultimate anti-evolutionary act of selfdestruction
and personal extinction.
And we can call it “chemical imbalance” in the brain if we wish, but there
is a greater demand for this quality of life, the need for wonder, magic,
sparkle and happiness in life, and a correspondingly greater capacity for
self-destruction amongst the more evolved, the “bigger brained” (or more
complex brained) than the less intelligent members of our species and
race.
What on earth is going on?
Again, we have merely a theory, so as we said, we are asking for
consideration, not belief.
Suppose there is a supreme intelligence underlying Nature, expressing
itself as Nature.
Then nothing in Nature is accidental. All is causal, all is design. But not
everything is “made perfect” at once. There are trial designs, failed
designs, rejected designs, outmoded designs, and so on.