[jennyp]

But more to the point, you're the one who's making the positive claim that there must be something extra at work here in order to get from simple & concrete to complex & abstract thoughts. Yet we all go thru that mental growth as we age (i.e. from 4 to 12). So, is there some kind of supernatural intervention that occurs at some point in everyone's childhood? If so, then how do you explain severely retarded people, who never reach the capacity to think abstract thoughts? Did the angel in charge of imparting abstract thoughts pass them by?

Retarded people are still people.

But they still can't handle abstractions. Somehow that ability, which every other person develops, escaped them. A naturalistic explanation is that there's something wrong with the wiring of their brains which prevented the emergent property of "abstraction" to emerge. The supernaturalistic explanation is - what? That the supernatural person in charge of injecting the supernatural substance called "abstraction" into our natural brains passed them by?

[SmartCitizen]

Haha. There are about 25 people replying just to me. There is no way I can possibly respond to all of the posts (unless, of course, I were the Jim Carrey character - Bruce Almighty) - and I do not wish to even try. It seems when anyone questions the sacred theory of evolution, the evo-bots (I mean that good-naturedly) come out of the woodwork!

You guys all take care now. Buh-bye.