Re: [Phys-l] Ethnic Predisposition

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Reminds me of an argument (IIRC, attributed to Lord Russell) that because the more "intelligent"** go (went) in to the "church" resulted in an evolutionary change in average "intelligence".   The Catholic priests don't multiply while the Rabbis do.

** NB the "s and how heritable is "intelligence"?

bc often assumed by acquaintances and friends a Jew.

A trivium:   The late head of the Physical Science Dept. and geologist at UCSB (ca 1957) told me that the only prominent Catholic geologist was a seismologist.  (Probably not the case now?)

On 2012, Feb 01, , at 17:55, brian whatcott wrote:

> "In the US, only  2 percent of the population is Jewish, yet about 30 
> percent of the members of the National Academy of Science and 30 percent 
> of the Nobel Prize recipients


All or only US?  All fields or only physics?


> are from a Jewish background. That's no 
> coincidence..."
> Greg Feist,
> San Jose State U., Calif.
> Pres: Intl Soc for the Psychology of Science and Technology.
> as quoted NewSci Jan 28th p29
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