I once asked a very religious friend of mine if evolution could be possible. He fervently denied it could. I asked him then if God has any limitations. He fervently denied that. I pointed out that making evolution and God (or a belief therein) mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive put a limit on God's ability to create the world according to certain laws of physics and evolution. You CAN have it both ways. Just don't go all "ape"sh*t over it. WHAt NEVERMiND KooLNEsss MANn Great clip wildcat. Very common misconceptions in the "debate" (read : religious refusal to accept) evolution. I'd say that nearly 90% of the people I engage on evolutionary discussions use one or more of those false understandings. Even intelligent people are not immune to those misunderstandings because few people actually research what they think they know. thanks for the clarifying clip.a lot of times these terms are misused. thx, in fact it seems that the most difficult idea to get across is the one concerning the centrality of humans at the top. there is no direction in evolution and no top. In fact, wildcat, it is possible to say that human intelligence is merely a byproduct of evolution, since there are no goals. yes Jorjor I think i can agree with that.. however whats the "merely" for? intelligence as a byproduct of evolution can very well be the emergent property of all life, which in turn can bootstrap via thought and self reflection I say "merely" because our ancestors evidently found themselves in an ecological niche in which intelligence became the deciding factor of survival. It is supposed that this was a consequence of spreading out from forest to savannah and grasslands where there were fewer places to hide and cunning was required. This goes to answer the creationist question,"If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes? Why didn't they evolve, too?" The answer is that they occupied another niche that had demands on factors other than sheer brain power, and, therefore, developed in other directions. Had earliest man stayed in the forest, there would not have been as great a demand for intelligence and w... There were quite a few branches of intelligent human-like creatures that existed at the same time (Neanderthals existence overlapped that of ours). That we are the only surviving "sapient" species might suggest that intelligence isn't an overly strong survival trait. Or in the very least is a very niche specific survival trait. |
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