Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150307200513/@comment-14745711-20150311080828

These are all good points, but I will still try and put up some arguments, more for the sake of having a good argument than anything else, so this is friendly. The IQ that a person displays on tests for IQ is not always their true potential intellect. Then again I suppose you could regard IQ as simply that person's current intelligence. I did actually look up what IQ is, and really it seems to be a way of measuring not so much intelligence on a universal scale, but rather as to whether or not a human posses average intelligence. Other races may display IQ in different ways than humans do, perhaps it is in their creative levels that they progress rather than raw knowledge? Not the best suggestion but I suppose you get what I mean.

As for your evolutionary arguments, they seem correct to me, as a person who at least likes to think they know a decent amount about the theory. But they do not actually work for me because, well, I don't believe in evolution; I am a creationist. No I am not going to argue on that point since generally people don't really care how logical your argument is I've found, they just say you're biased (as if they're somehow not) and that you shouldn't bring religion into science (which I'm not!). But since in 40k they seem to follow normal evolutionary laws, then I'd say yes you're right.

So, very well it would make sense for the Eldar to have a higher IQ due to evolution and gradual genetic improvement. But wouldn't they have changed a tad more from the standard humanoid? I mean we know humans mutate into new forms all the time in 40k, so why haven't the Eldar done the same? I'm wondering if they have a problem with their genome, perhaps developed by all the excess that led to Slaneesh being created, although that seems a bit too recent, but whatever. It seems also that surely they would have better tech than this after millions of years, I mean it is pretty good, but it isn't perfect otherwise no one could take them on and survive. Their biology also isn't really much better than a humans (yes it is better, but not by very much).

So, there are my friendly arguments, just because I'm enjoying this and I like a good debate.