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To: Dog Gone

I was asking whether someone with no concept of God could have a conscience. A sense of right and wrong.... I’m not sure how we can test the answer to this question. It may just have to be something we debate.
***I think some interesting data points could be generated by having the discussions with Apes and other mammals who have been trained in Sign Language.


216 posted on 08/02/2008 9:04:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

Has anything ever been found that was generated by a species not human which indicate a sense of creator, a higher power than species threat/resolution? IOW, has there ever been a behavior or artifact found in a non-human species that can be interpreted as a sense of godness beyond the physical realm of their existence? As I recall, Koko when asked about her new kitten to replace the one who was killed signed allball for name and when asked if this new kitten is the same as previous allball, she replied not allball. There seemed to be no sense of goneness on any other level than ‘not there physically’.


218 posted on 08/02/2008 9:19:19 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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