quote:Originally posted by gbrk:
how is it that man, and man alone, developed such intelligence as to invent, create, develop common languages and multi-lingual abilities and no other species has? How is it that the vast diversity of life can be explained and yet such a vast chasm of diversity of species exist?
gbrk, there ISN'T a "vast chasm." our DNA is 98% identical to our closest relative, the chimpanzee. we share 90% commonality with the common house cat. 80% with cows. 75% with mice. in fact, we can fairly accurately predict how long ago were split off from common ancestors according to the differences in our DNA. your assumption that we humans are so far advanced than "the animals" is built purely in ignorance and prejudice. it is not based on scientific fact.
we ARE animals, gbrk. we are currently the most successful animal (not counting insects) but that may or may not be temporary. mankind needs to get off his loft pedestal, realize and understand his place in this universe. insisting that the opinions and myths of bronze aged sheepherders hold more merit that a modern scientist is just so grossly offensive to modern intellect!
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It seems that science accepted Darwin's evolution of the species as the sole, indisputable, truth and the only possible method or vehicle for our existence.
wrong. true, darwin's theory was mostly accepted by the scientific community when origin of species was first published but there were still a few detractors. since that time 150 years ago, it has been overwhelmingly supported by countless converging lines of evidence. you simply do not (and likely cannot) understand the evidence until you remove the blinders your primitive religion has placed upon you.
quote:The other question, I'd also pose is ... Is it too difficult to accept that quite possibly the actual answers and process, by which we got here, is totally beyond the ability of man/woman to understand or conceive even with our own limited abilities and understandings?
gbrk, we have a VAST understanding of how life came to be! no, we do not know exactly how it first appeared on earth (and won't know until time travel is invented and we travel back to witness the event(s)) but we do understand the numerous processes by which it could have happened. no, we cannot yet duplicate the processes but we understand it so well that scientists are on the very verge of creating "life from non-life" in the laboratory as we speak.
by your logic, when science creates "life from non-life" we will become gods.