Originally Posted by
TheCentaur
How do people living with animals and adapting to and mimicking their behavior support this statement? Like I said in a previous post, you could decide to spend your life climbing trees, it would not make your offspring a better tree climber. Yes, your DNA can be altered chemically (like the example of playing with radioactive waste) but the youtube examples you offer are NOT that.
Yes people have potential to do many things, but are ultimately gentically limited. JJGold could play basketball everyday since he was 5, live it, breath it, practice it, and he would not be 360 slam dunking. If he was born into a tribe that played basketball for survival, he may be better, but he would never be Lebron, and his children would not be born with better potential for basketball unless he mated with one of their women.
Most of the reasonable world accepts this, but many cannot accept the flip side that not everyone is capable of being a mathematician.
I am not surprised you latch on to something such as epigenetics. Whenever you read about it notice how often the words "may" or "could" are used. Not a law, not even enough evidence to be a theory. When the subject switches from single cell organisms or simple plants to human beings it gets very shaky.
I don't really care what race you are Glitch, I enjoy the discussion. Contrary to what you or many may believe, I don't hate people or races, I hate convenient lies and dishonesty.
More on this later, I have to place some bets...