(June 2, 2013 at 8:53 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote:(June 1, 2013 at 8:06 am)cato123 Wrote: Human infants will place the feces of several different species in their mouths, most freqently their own. So much for Allah implanted information.This is another proof of intelligence
Unless of course the argument becomes that Allah really does want everyone to eat shit and we are just ignoring him.
God gave instincts more to animals, because they are not fully responsible for their deeds (there is no reward or punishments)
On the other hand god made us responsible for our actions so we need to learn then act.
don't you see that instincts should be more sophisticated in us as we are more advanced, it is not the case.
(June 1, 2013 at 8:02 am)orogenicman Wrote: Erm, cats don't have to be literate to understand that pointy things may hurt. After all, cats have some rather pointy objects on their paws, so they would intrinsically know something about the subject. One doesn't have to be an Einstein pussy to figure this out.I agree that this thread is not as strong as the others
I think it should be completed with real experiments where you raise a number of cats without seeing a Scorpion then test them with some with other pointing objects
I'm sure that they still act the same.
Before YOU start on those experiments you should reconsider making prior assumptions such as the one you made above.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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