(October 23, 2016 at 7:39 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(October 22, 2016 at 9:18 pm)Lek Wrote: Neither dinosaurs, nor any other non-human creatures, have the capacity to think they are more special than other creatures.
If you're chased by a lion to the edge of a cliff, the crow's ability to fly can look pretty special. It's all relative.
In what way is our capacity to think more impressive than the cheetah's speed, a dog's sense of smell, or a hawk's vision?
It enables us to build cities, find cures for diseases, write books, etc. We can move around in vehicles twice as fast as a cheetah, we can build machines to detect odors that dogs cannot, and we can see clearly from a satellite in outer space what a hawk can see from 100 ft. These animals cannot advance their lifestyles. Even though they do have remarkable abilities, they still do everything exactly as they did 1,000 years ago. Of all the multi-million species that have evolved since life began, only humans have intelligence. We're not just a more advanced species, but rather a special species, set apart from all the other creatures on earth.
