[LeGrande]

Your reference <>http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2010/08/creation-myths-of-tenured.html<> posits an infinite gap between animal and human consciousness.

I have played with dolphins in the wild. They are as aware of life and their existence as I am. In the ocean I am the poor crippled blind idiot compared to them.

Life, in all its forms, is the same and it all traces back to if not one, then a few single sources.

[BrandtMichaels]

Horse hockey. You can not prove that and the Cambrian explosion absolutely dis-proves this most inane conjecture.

[Colofornian]

Life, in all its forms...all traces back to if not one, then a few single sources.

But that Source isn't God, eh?

Personal life from impersonal life?

I have played with dolphins in the wild. They are as aware of life and their existence as I am.

Well, I at least agree with you that personal awareness is greater than impersonal "isness" -- metaphysics.

But then so many atheists go off full-cocked on things and claim the personality of people, mammals & animals all emerged from single, or "if not one, then a few single sources" -- and most of the time that's postulated by naturalists and atheists to be impersonal sources.

The "it" -- the source of faith for such naturalists and atheists -- which isn't aware of life -- is somehow greater than those entities that are personally aware?

Wow! What faith!

[Matchett-PI]

"Your reference posits an infinite gap between animal and human consciousness. I have played with dolphins in the wild. They are as aware of life and their existence as I am. In the ocean I am the poor crippled blind idiot compared to them."

No doubt you also believe that dolphins get jokes and understand baseball, too.

I have no inclination whatsoever to argue with someone who insists that he is simply the expression of his selfish genes. What can I say? Your genes won.

You wrote: "Life, in all its forms, is the same and it all traces back to if not one, then a few single sources."

That was true - up to a certain point.