(April 26, 2018 at 1:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(April 26, 2018 at 12:56 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Again, loosely picking facts to support an aesthetically motivated view. We certainly are superior to all those species we brought to extinction in our pursuit of our own convenience. We have reasonable hopes of being able to thwart another Dino killing asteroid in the extremely near future in geological terms, ask the dinosaurs what they had on the drawing board.
In the interest of fulfilling the aesthetic desire to say humans are no different from animals, you’ve shifted the goal post effectively from humans have to have unique traits and capabilities to be considered different from other animals to humans have to be all powerful gods to be considered different from other animals.
No we are NOT superior! PERIOD!
We merely have DIFFERENT ADAPTATIONS.
Cockroaches and bacteria cannot write Shakespeare or build a nuke, no, but they damned sure outnumber humans and have been around far longer.
I'd only agree that if HUMANS pick the right path, and stop our tribalism view, we can delay our finite ride and extend it. But it is still finite.
Screaming doesn’t lend weight to any argument of any type, especially ones based on aesthetically selected criteria.
