(April 23, 2010 at 3:38 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: Humans are the only species with sapient and sentient intelligence. This is a gift because it has allowed us to conquer the world like no other animal. Our species is the only one capable of believing in a deity, so it's conceptually sound to surmise that we have been set apart. And all that = God exists.
Excuse me.... we are the only creatures with intelligence (sapient and sentient)? Depends on what yardstick you are using, but Monkey's and Dolphins both are generally recognized as being fairly intelligent on the scale of things (using another yardstick many would not consider humans to be all that intelligent).
Perhaps you were meaning we are capable of abstract thoughts? Possibly... nobody has every managed to ask a monkey yet whether they have a concept of god, but maybe they are capable of displaying awareness of abstract thoughts in another way... hmmm, a question for an expert.
As for conquering... LOL. Dinosaurs once rules the world and until that time our distant ancestors were hiding under bushes whenever a dinosaur was near.
And your conclusion stinks. Our species is the only capable of believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monsiter as well, or for that matter writing fiction about dragons. You know our ancestors believed the world was flat, at the center of the universe, riding on the back of a giant turtle, etc... we have believed lots of crap throughout the millennia. We used to worship the sun and some used to kill children and virgins to satisfy their deities.
Just because we are capable of a belief proves nothing.
A finite number of monkeys with a finite number of typewriters and a finite amount of time could eventually reproduce 4chan.