hostergaard

So, sleeping in space weightless, what is dreaming like?

We are asserting that no specific gene linked to above average intelligence has ever been found.

Which says nothing at all. Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. By asserting that no genes have been found that is linked to above average intelligence you are only insinuating that intelligence is not heritable.

Have you considered that the difference you experience in a students success depending on their persistence is not due to intelligence non-heritable but rather that education in school is made to be so simple that even the dumbest person can grasp it and thus persistence rather than intelligence makes the difference?

It will take destroying a single idea: the idea that people are born smart.

But that is what they are. Intelligence is strongly heritable. Destroying the truth is never a good thing, no matter how bad you feel about it. I am sorry, but your belief that we are born equal is simply factually wrong, reality isn't just a feel good show.