Evidence for ID and creationWhy? :: The Special Ape...The Special Ape... …and the problem with you and all christians is that you cannot rationally posit theories on anything one can see. tuppence wrote: We have not seen curiosity in any animal. We do not know what they think. We can compare our brain to theirs. We can state that we have larger areas which are responsible for “higher” thought and from this we can infer that we have a higher mental capacity. You are basing your assumptions/bias on a science that cannot, as yet, be proven. Thus, saying that man’s ability to ask ‘why’, which is based on a theory that cannot be proven, is not solid evidence for special creation. By the way, I do believe man has higher mental capacity, it is good science and the best theory based on “unproven facts”, just like evolution. You, however, cannot use this science as a defense as you require irrefutable “facts” that are 100% proven in order for you to accept something as the best explanation. So, try again. “In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history"—yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened. For this intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it. But if we could communicate with the mosquito, then we would learn that he floats through the air with the same self-importance, feeling within itself the flying center of the world.” From: On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense - Frederick Nietzsche Even in humans, punishment years after a crime has very little effect in extinguishing the criminal behavior (which, by definition, means that it is not even punishment). Usually the criminal attributes the “punishment” to being caught, not to the crime. Operant Conditioning holds that the best punisher be delivered within 30 seconds for maximum effect, be it a dog or a human. True, humans cognitively can span time better than animals (inferred anyway), but the reason for “punishment” is almost always laid on more immediate stimuli. When criminals stop doing crimes after going to jail, it is due to not wanting to get caught, not because they do not want to do the crime. tuppence wrote: And I am tempted to say: Man is special only because he decided he is special and this proves nothing. |
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