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Huge gap between humans and animals

Altfish

Veteran Member
Which dog is male and which is female
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Tell me who is the girl and who is the boy
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Do you mean we were lucky that our brains evolved to be super and all other animals were unlucky?
Firstly, I'm not sure what you are trying to prove with those photos.
I could post pictures of male and female humans that you couldn't tell apart. Pink and blue gives it away somewhat!!
I wouldn't use the word 'lucky'; I'd like to be able to fly, so maybe an eagle is luckier than me.
But the developed brain is an advantage (it wouldn't have survived evolution if it wasn't) in helping the species make uses of the resources around us; the ability to read and write is a great asset. It means we don't have to remember everything, we can look it up.
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
Firstly, I'm not sure what you are trying to prove with those photos.
I could post pictures of male and female humans that you couldn't tell apart. Pink and blue gives it away somewhat!!
I wouldn't use the word 'lucky'; I'd like to be able to fly, so maybe an eagle is luckier than me.
But the developed brain is an advantage (it wouldn't have survived evolution if it wasn't) in helping the species make uses of the resources around us; the ability to read and write is a great asset. It means we don't have to remember everything, we can look it up.

Many type of birds can fly, this thread indeed shows me how much deceitful some atheists are.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Again and again I repeat, Many kinds of birds can fly, many kinds of fish that can swim, but no other kind on earth can walk like humans, no other kind think to study and invent like humans ....etc, You only refuse such fact because you do not accept the notion that God exists.

It seems that you cannot conceive of a person recognizing that man has been gifted with remarkable abilities including intellect, language, culture, civilization, and more, without concluding that those gifts must have come from an intelligent designer. People disagreeing with you are not disagreeing that humankind is very impressive. They just don't agree that these distinctions argue for a god more than a blind, naturalistic processes.

When we tell you that we don't believe in gods because we lack sufficient reason to do otherwise, you might consider that it is the truth, and not some excuse to run from God as you seem to believe. How did you rule out that we mean what we say - we find no reason, including the nobility and striking achievements of mankind, to believe in gods?

Why only humans have superior brains, was it a disadvantage for other animals to evolve with super brains?

That's a very good question.

Asking it doesn't establish a supernaturalistic answer, nor eliminate a naturalistic one.

I suspect that the answer is related to the fact that brachiating, herbivorous, arboreal apes with grasping hands and binocular vision left the forest for the savanna, stood upright freeing their hands for tool making and spear throwing if they could evolve the intelligence to exploit this potential, became omnivores, formed bands for cooperative hunting making the ability to communicate and strategize more important (made them better adapted) if they could develop the neural circuitry necessary to support those activities.

Perhaps these changes in the brain leading to intellect and abstract thought may have to occur in an animal that already has the necessary physical attributes in place for the cost of a bigger brain to be justified by the benefits. Maybe you need the skills and attributes of a jungle ape modified by those beneficial to a plains hunter for big brains to become profitable. We pay a high price for them in terms of the brain's oxygen and glucose consumption - about 20% of the body's total - and relatively premature births compared with other apes due to the infant's relatively large skull for developmental stage, so these big brains might not be worth it in just any animal body.
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
anyone take the time to watch puzzle solving by primates?

there's a difference between us and ......them
 

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Don't know...but there are humans that use to worship [email protected] can stop genuflecting now..... bears are not Gods...which also proves there is a Huge gap between humans and animals....just not in the way you walking, hairless chimps think.....
ok....so there have been some really stupid humans
 

Bear Wild

Well-Known Member
anyone take the time to watch puzzle solving by primates?

there's a difference between us and ......them

Anyone take the time to watch different people try to complete the MCAT trying to get into medical school or trying to get through a class on quantum mechanics? There are clear differences in humans. What does that mean? Some are superior or just better at other things. I struggled through my quantum mechanics class - thus never went into a physics career. I can appreciate being the primates effort, but then again I am a primate. I certainty cannot climb trees like some of my primate brothers and sisters. Oh well, not the best at climbing trees and did terrible in my quantum mechanics class. I guess at the bottom of the primate family. Learning how to appreciate the what is special in all living things is something I respect, At least I can do that.
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
ok....so there have been some really stupid humans

I don't know why..... but I am going to let that one pass...mostly because you made it waaaaay to easy for a rather scathing comeback.......
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
Anyone take the time to watch different people try to complete the MCAT trying to get into medical school or trying to get through a class on quantum mechanics? There are clear differences in humans. What does that mean? Some are superior or just better at other things. I struggled through my quantum mechanics class - thus never went into a physics career. I can appreciate being the primates effort, but then again I am a primate. I certainty cannot climb trees like some of my primate brothers and sisters. Oh well, not the best at climbing trees and did terrible in my quantum mechanics class. I guess at the bottom of the primate family. Learning how to appreciate the what is special in all living things is something I respect, At least I can do that.

Good that you can write similar to other humans.
 
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