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Think you could elaborate a bit?

Well, the famous equation of relativity technically is physics, not math, although the correlation between the two fields would cause some blurring. Nonetheless, he personally expressed difficulty with mathematics, despite having some success in his studies. Math was not his strongest suit, physics was.

Einstein's brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_brain

In any case, this is getting off topic. If you wish to further the discussion of Einstein, please create another thread or take it to the PM system.

I don't think enhancing the intelligence is important becuase for me, as long as you are happy with your life and you did your best it is enough. God won't ask us when we go to heaven if we are geniuses or what, I think he would ask us how we did it.. We have a saying "10% on what we did in our life, 90% how happy we are in making our life."

Well, how close we are to genetic engineering human children to be geniuses is all relative. If by "close" you mean that we are making large advances in the field, then yes, I suppose we are. But I doubt that I or anyone else in this forum will be alive to see the generation of baby geniuses grow up.

Also, I'm not sure how necessary it is to have a Utopia at all with a smarter society. I don't know about "perfection," but humankind has been progressing and advancing the average IQ and lifespan for more than a million years now. In my opinion, a world with smart people will more or less be a normal society, albeit with more advanced technology and newer culture based on years of trends and social events.

Having more intelligence doesn't necessarily mean being less emotional, although people see to think that a great deal. I go to school with incredibly intelligent people, and most all of them are very passionate about some cause or another, and are very emotional when you tread on their toes. The future as portayed in science fiction is still just fiction.

i think its a good idea i suffer from deslexia and it wasnt disscoverd untill i had finished my gcses which most of them i failed and i allways wished i was a little smarter i tend to forget thing very easily sad

It would be interesting to genetically engineer people to be smarter, because we would be able to solve some of the problems in the world. However it would probably cause just as many problems as it solves.
I do think that smart people tend to be kind of odd...
In middle school we had special classes for the smart kids(well in high school too), but it was the same bunch of kids all day. Trust me, weird doesn't even begin to describe it.

Personally, I'm all for enhancing human beings through genetic engineering, be it intelligence wise, or physical wise.

My reasoning mainly stems from counter-reasonings for opposition towards genetic engineering.

a) Some will reason that genetic engineering is against "God's will" or natural order. Needless to say, if we were given the power and knowledge to do it, it is definitely within "God's will" or natural order.

b) Genetic engineering leads to the unknown. Indeed, that's the whole point of science, really. Venturing into the unknown, and learning something extremely valuable from it. I believe that genetically enhanced human beings will be the next step in human evolution. I feel no fear for the unknown, but instead, I feel reverance and curiosity.

Einstein's IQ level was estimated to be about 300. He was just one man, but the advances that resulted from his ideas and theories are immeasurable. He fixed that 7% error that was found in recorded data of extreme phenomena(speed of light, etc.). He proposed that energy was mass, and mass was energy(E=mc^2).

Just one man, with a high IQ level, and not much more(he was a failure in school), and he had aided Mankind so much. Imagine if we had 6.6 billion people with the same IQ level in the future. If one man could push science so far, I shudder to think what 6.6 billion of them can do. But I shudder not in fear, but in anticipation. I CAN'T WAIT!