Posted on 11/07/2001 4:42:23 PM PST by green team 1999
No, when considering self, that is a "healthy" perspective. It is called high self-esteem, too much is arrogance, too little is Darwinist. (yet surprisingly, it appears that most Darwinists are arrogant). You may feel inferior if you wish, that is your prerogative.
Nicely redundant. At any rate, as
long as just about every other mammal
on earth can make its own vitamin C
internally, the alleged superiority of
the human body over other animals
is a lie on the face of it.
Looks like they shoehorned that right in.
Well, that does depend on a definition of superiority. Since humans seem to be the only entities proffering an opinion, I believe we win.
Since I don't advocate the perfect creation
of man in situ without the benefit of
evolution, I'll leave the quibbling of just
what superior means to the creationists
who proclaim it. The point of the
exercise, at any rate, is that humanity
has evolved from something different
than what we see walking around
today.
Your dog also licks its own butt.
Thank you. And it is entirely possible that man was created as in the graphic picture seen at the top of this thread and has evolved into what we are today. As a matter of fact, the inability to make vitamin C suggests that at one time the human diet was so overwhelmingly fruit that we lost the need to make our own C. Use it or lose it.
I think you misunderstood my point and/or I didn't explain my position very well. I was trying to say that I believe humans were created with far better and more efficient bodies than what we have today. When I cited natural selection, it was not in defense of Darwinian evolution. Whenever natural selection occurs, it always results in a loss of genetic information. As specialization occurs in a species or an isolated group of that species, those creatures inevitably lose the genetic potential to produce certain characteristics. Now I could talk about mutations and genetic info, but I would be wandering farther from the original post.
Plus, this thread would end up being hundreds of posts long!
To woolyone: Looks to me that your dog was created diffently than humans.
You could learn some things from your friend gen[e]sis defender.
I agree with woolyone. Furthermore, I believe that <10,000 years ago, God created this universe, in 6 days, and that man was created in God's image. We can't convince each other of anything here on FR; that would take years. Three links to visit as a start for anyone interested would be:
Long time no argue bud. I hope all is well on your end.
That's historical times. Pre-history figures to offer a near flat-line graph. Anything else would be a stunner.
It IS a stunner. There was an explosion of art, religion, and creativity in tool use that occurs in conventional dating around 40K ago. The reason it seems flatline is that the non-human hominids did have a nearly flat line for a long time prior to that, before they all (except neadertals) go extinct around 70-80K ago. When true humans arrive, there is a "BIG BANG" of creativity. The earliest art we find is just as advanced as a college freshman art major, given the same materials, could do today.
I should save my articles documenting this to hard drive. All I did was add a bookmark, and those stories have been moved.
I try to keep my religion separate from factual science.
Great. You'll be able to provide references in biological science journals testifying to this so-called "decline" of evolution.
I'll accept an even dozen as proof of your claim. Cite:
Virtually every anthropological find I've read about since I was in high school in the '70s contains a sentence like the above. The trend has been toward a younger universe, more sophisticated "prehistoric" men, and catastrophism instead of uniformitarianism as an explanation for the disappearnce of the dinosaurs.
Why? Because we can and do eat fruit? Because as humans we actually enjoy fruit? A dog is superior to me because he doesn't want or need fruit? Stunning proof that objectivity can leave you wanting for common sense. ; * )
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