RE: [Quranic Reflection] Animals are communities like us
May 7, 2019 at 9:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2019 at 9:53 pm by Brian37.)
(May 7, 2019 at 9:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 1. Atlas didn't claim that the Quran explains evolution.
2. Atlas didn't claim that only Muslims have dietary restrictions.
3. Atlas offered a reason why the Quran prohibits eating pork, a reason supported by Christopher Hitchens. Your reason is superfluous and (probably) incorrect.
4. Atlas never brought up keeping pigs as pets.
Good job droning on and on about points nobody raised. Nice to know you're consistent.
Boru
And #3 is why I brought up the rest of my reasons he was wrong.
Ritual is the reason. The only reason.
He did say "Maybe pigs have higher levels of consciousness".
It is true they do feel pain and do have emotions like humans. But they do not have the same level of complex communication as humans. That is not to say humans are an apex of life, we are not. But we are omnivores, like many other mammals. Including some species of pigs.
Atlass is simply trying to justify his religion, like any other theist does. I don't think he is a bad guy. But none of what he posted explains the nature of reality. It merely reflects his desire to be on the right track.
Other species group yes. But to call them "communities" like humans is not correct and to use the Koran to justify the word "community" is not the same language as when evolutionary biologists talk of ecosystems and and groups. Atlass is trying to square his old book to modern knowledge, and it does not work.
