(March 11, 2010 at 6:19 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 11, 2010 at 6:00 pm)Saerules Wrote: We are more adept with our intelligence than other animals on Earth...
That's enough to concede the point
Not at all. He's trying to say that "intelligence" by itself is a superior evolutionary mechanism than flying or big nasty teeth and claws. It is simply a self-centered way of looking at things because he thinks mankind is intelligent (and, I concede, a minority of the total population probably is.) But "evolution" does not give a rats ass for his definition. Bears have evolved the way they have because big teeth and claws work for them in their environment. Evolutionary success is merely defined as surviving long enough to pass on your genes to the next generation.
There is no hierarchy of evolutionary traits. What works survives and what doesn't dies out. There is no silly-ass god directing everything.