(March 12, 2010 at 1:54 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: @ Tav
No I think the point Angel makes is that 'specialness' comes from our unique position of dominance and not the other way around. At this point in time our position reiterates the theology.
Of course there are other forms of intelligence and isn't everything that has no exact equal unique? I think his wording was poor, but he went on to clarify what he meant, which floors the many repeated rebuts on that count.
Position of dominance in our own, specialized environment. I'm making the point that we are no more dominant and special than any other animal that is at the top of its food chain in its specific environment. We are nothing without specific tools and adaptations that we have developed over thousands of years. To think we were just created with some sort of divine dominion over species is not seeing the forest through the trees, and going against established facts.
Every single animal is unique. Our intelligence is a unique trait, but no more special than a lion's claws or a peregrine falcon's ability to dive. They are developed over time. Natural selection doesn't favor any one species over another. An assessment of "we are so unique that it had to have been God" is an ignorant argument and from personal incredulity.
Understand?