EDIT: Please don't refer to me or any other vistor of this forum as 'children'.
Then please don't act like it.
As far as the brain and intelligence go, please go to your nearest university and look up the Science article I referenced and briefly quoted there. It is far better for you to go to the source for that than argue a brief quote with me.
I don't have a lot of time for a Google search right now, but a short one turned up a couple of interesting links for you:
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/ ... /brain.htm
If you can get hold of the copy of the Lancet referenced here, this article looks interesting:
Half brain but not half function
Maria T Acosta, a, Patricia Montañezb, c, d and Fidias E Leon-Sarmientob, c, d
a Department of Neurology, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
b Instituto Neurologico de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
c Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
d Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 030730.htm (one would expect, if intelligence is a physical phenomenon, that children who have half their brains removed to control chronic severe seizures would be somewhat idiotic -- but such is not the case)
Please consider the following:
Writing about their experience, in the August 1997 issue of Pediatrics, “Why Would You Remove Half a Brain? The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy - The Johns Hopkins Experience: 1968 to 1996,” Johns Hopkins Children's Center neurologists John M. Freeman, M.D., and Eileen P.G. Vining, M.D., look toward the future. “Awed” by the apparent retention of memory after removal of half of the brain, either half, and by the retention of the child's personality and sense of humor, they look foward to the time when there are less radical approaches to these problems, for which hemispherectomies are at present the surgery of last resort. Today, Drs. Freeman and Vining and their colleagues are investigating promising new treatments for Rasmussen's syndrome, which might one day make hemispherectomies obsolete.
from here:
http://www.drbencarson.com/hem-facts.html
I think some of that will at least give you pause....