We have thumbs...
Oh’ a brain to show us have to use them...
Because we can Google the Answer from orbit.
Let’s see, first thing this morning I had two cat puddles to clean up. It’s a dominance issue. I let them in/out and fed them, all before taking care of my own needs. I wonder who is superior to whom.
Cats have also provided scientific proof that the world is not flat. If it were, they’d have knocked everything off by new.
Does this article make Edward Watson a racist bigot homophobe white Supremacist Nazi?
We started cooking our food that lead to more protein that lead to bigger brains. We have big brains.
But if dolphins had thumbs, they would build stunning underwater cities...right?
Good grief, the lack of basic common sense knows no bounds.
One word: “Plastics”
Yes! Humans are vastly more intelligent, and in some cases, vastly more stupid. Humans are not just monkeys with a bigger brain. There is a qualitative difference. We are capable of abstraction and we can use symbols to represent those abstractions.
Discovering that elephants are more intelligent than we thought is a good thing, but it doesn’t change the fact that humans are immensely more intelligent.
Say what?
My dogs are a HELLUVA LOT SMARTER
Than the 47%
Kinder & gentler too
And better looking
Humans are also exponentially more evil than animals
The answer is in the Book of Genesis
We are created in the image of Yahuah (God).
Nothing, God, or aliens? There’s a 4th possibility: we ourselves. We could have intelligently designed our descendants.
Cave Mom: Go mate with Alpha. He’s clever, he can make a spear, and he’s better at throwing it too. You’ll always have food. Forget Beta, he’s a handsome brute but a brute is all he’ll ever be and it won’t be long either because he doesn’t learn. Always remember, people make people like themselves. So if you want Alpha babies, you need an Alpha. Don’t argue, your father is on my side.
After a while (not an eon) the process will snowball.
The article presumes that, absent an external factor, breeding is random. But as soon as people understood how they reproduce, breeding was by design.
We have a soul. We also have a cerebral cortex and the ability to conceptualize and the only creature that builds tools.
Because God said so!
We cook our food.
“Why Are Humans Unique and Superior to All Other Animals?”
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Whom sez?????????????????????
Of all God's creation, only man is created in His image. Only man has been placed over all of the creation.
Maybe because God Almighty had the Earth and seas bring forth creatures of all kinds and then decided to make Man in “our own” image and likeness?
It’s all found rather handily in the first few pages of the Bible.
Star Trek: “A Taste of Armageddon”
“That we aren’t going to kill...today.”