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Originally Posted by Jordyn  why were we the creatures that got the larger frontal lobe?
what was it that inspired us to evolve beyond apes, natural selection, luck of darwin?
just because something can register discomfort, doesn't mean it's intelligent, just alive...dogs still stand in the middle of the road, deer are still shot during hunting season and dolphins still get entangled in nets, and brain dead people can still twitch when poked with a needle.
science can't explain why we developed these abiiities either...what decides "natural selection"?
all this about how science has it all figured out, no one has it figured out...they know the who, when and where, but with out a why..it's still theory, albeit good, sound theory...but no proof that we developed out of straight hard science.
at least the creationists have a theory as to the why, i don't agree they should compelety be rid of all lessons of evolution, or that creationism needs to be taught in school...but until i can be given scientific fact as to what made us the only group of sapiens to survive with this abililty of brain matter...i'm still liking the idea of a greater force giving us some sort of hand up from the animal kingdom into the world, as high functioning mammmals.
science can't prove it either way. |
I think it all comes down to what we are doing right now, man devoloped the ability to communicate. Dogs will stand in the road, yes, but if the dog gets hit and survives, it will learn to avoid the road, it will become afraid of the road. Another dog will go and do the same thing, because dogs dont have any type of communications network to share the knowledge that "road = danger".
There's a quote at the beginning of the Pink Floyd song Keep Talking on the Division Bell album, its by Stephen Hawking and it says:
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination.
We learned to talk.
Now I realize you're going to ask "how did we learn to talk"? And this discussion can go on indefinitely, we've effectively reached a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" scenario.