(April 4, 2010 at 2:30 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: This is not circular reasoning at all. When the bible claims that man is made in the image of God, and that man is superior to animals, it is not said in the same context as I'm using it here. In other words, no one was saying "the fact that we are the only species with sapient intelligent is evidence there's a God." I'm the one making this claim. What we see around us corroborates what was written in the bible, in passages written with entirely different purposes.That was their world-view, their perspective or subjective take on reality, like the world being flat, the idea we're superior to all other life is as dead as a doornail.
You're corrupted your capacity for intellectual study with such rod and that is a sad thing for a sapient creature to do. It makes you ignorant of the varying levels of intelligence that is empirically abundant out there. I mean take a look at these big fellas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAUleX5h8A
Every time I see them I get Goosebumps, I realised they're studying us, they are alive like you and me, watching us and interacting with us, if that’s not sapience, a living being that is self-aware then I quite simply don't know what is.
