@archer5691 what she said. The IQ differences are easily explained by the effects of poverty and racism. You give children poor quality food, poor quality education and add in extreme stress, you get people with stunted growth in many areas. All of these claims were made about Italians, Jews, the Chinese etc. Yet when removed from poverty and it's ill affects those "races" have a perfectly normal IQ range. Its not genetics, it's the effects of poverty.

@Blindbird Exactly & Thank you!

Me thinks that Sam Harris likes to use big words to compensate for the fact that he can't quite fill his big-boy Humanist pants.

@TroyBarber64

That's misogynistic and homophobic. Ridiculing a man's penis size is as cheap as anything racists spew.

Ezra attacked Sam with false premises and ridiculous derivative crap. Sam and Murray are not racists.

@Ellatynemouth I can see how you may have derived your assertions by my use of the words "compensation" and "pants", but feel that you misconstrued my message.

The metaphor of "filling pants" or "filling shoes" just means that someone hasn't risen to the level of respect as their peers; in Sam Harris's case, he doesn't deserve the respect that I hold for Dawkins or Hitchens (rip).

As to the compensation part, that alludes to my annoyance toward people who sound intellectual without fully comprehending the subject matter, or what I refer to as book-smarts V's street-smarts.

I am more of a street-smart person with enough education to understand the content from intellectuals. I tend to phrase things in crude terms. I am neither a misogynist or homophobic - actually, I really don't understand how you concluded how you thought my comment was homophobic, I am kinda lost on that one...