Lars

Language comes naturally to us. The written word comes to us a lot sooner and more easily than advanced math. We learn it faster, retain it longer, make less mistakes with it and use it our whole lives. We can describe most of the universe as we know it through words, express ourselves through words…live every day with words. And yet…I’m not…[Read more]

tom sarbeck wrote:
Only by first studying math can he “know” that. He then “attaches” the limited math he knows to the limited universe he perceives. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

+1

You are both right. Evolution didn’t stop. Of course it didn’t. There is an enormous difference between how we can handle the heat, certain foods, skin color, endurance, blood type and much more. It has only been a near microscopic number of generations since man went sedentary and lived in large groups.  It’s true all species to have a potenti…[Read more]

It’s also more than just evolutionary pressure. We evolved to live in tiny groups of people roaming Savannah with mostly enough resources to get by, not too much violence and using ingenuity and speculation to adapt to slowly changing environments.

Having a detailed world view or a supernatural creation explanation is a consequence of this,…[Read more]

I was born on the dark side of the moon, I grew up in the land of Oz, spent some time in Alcatraz, then was reincarnated as Winston Churchill’s bull dog, then spent some time roaming the galaxy looking for people more intelligent than Earth-dolphins (never found it) and most recently I was reincarnated as a toothbrush. Being a to…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Davis wrote:
they are.

Then it’s not surprising that the CI hasn’t caught on.

And so passes one more duck and so goes yet another dodge.

jakelafort wrote:
In essence those whites who thought themselves better than blacks (almost all of them) had a special creation bias.

And yet it’s totally reasonable for men to make more than women?

daughterofkarl wrote:
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a Search for Who We Are

Hey. THanks for the recommendation. I have a pretty enormous reading list but I will put the book on it. Sometimes older books can explain general concepts and I find older books also add a lot more humanity and an intersting narrative. For example Desmond Morris’s…[Read more]

Yes they teach other their adopted sign language.

I’ve looked into this. The only source I can find is that one ape learnt signs by watching another ape sign with another ape. I cannot find any source which shows them expressing emotions other than saying good or bad. However I’ll look into it more. If they can express not just emotions but…[Read more]

I’m so sorry about your dad. It’s a horrible loss.  Glad to see you back, though 🙂

Simon Paynton wrote:
The two are unrelated.

Oh but they are. I’m happy to answer your question once you answer mine. I understand if it takes a few days…it’s not at all an easy task!

Simon thanks for making a comparison. Now please give me the list of the 15 in order, and I will be pleased as punch to give you several examples.

1000 words. That’s impressive. All done with extensive training by other humans. Did the ape then teach the other apes 1000 signs? Did they start communicating through that language? Did they express to one another their fears and concerns, appologise and forive? Did they find a way to release their anguish?

A dog doing some funny tricks tells us…[Read more]

So an ape learns 100 signs instead of 20 and you can train a dog to do some unremarkable  tricks and, that is even remotely comparable to human intelligence, cognitive structures and sentience…how?

Simon Paynton wrote:
I would have thought that’s a pointless exercise.

Oh crap. Is that a duck and dodge of the height of Dr. Bob’s stupidity? Thats so pathetic Simon it makes me want to spew intellectual vomit. Are you that insecure with your own dubious claims that you won’t follow through. You said comparing individual moral acts and c…[Read more]

Tom, it’s a murder of crows 😉