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Originally Posted by Thane
Ahh, I see. We create societal laws, ethics and moral concepts because we're highly social animals. So, I suppose you beleive this, somehow now proves we're only animals now ?
Raise up the animal so that it doesn't look so bad to lower the human.
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Highly social
and intellegent animals. Ants are also highly social (moreso than we are), but any creating or processing that happens, occurs among the hive as a whole. This is not better or worse than human society, but it is profoundly alien.
You are the one talking about raising and lowering here, not me. Both humans and animals are capapble of behaving in 'low' or 'elevated' ways, if you will. Our large brains give us enough foresight that we should know better- and advantage most other animals lack.
Anyway, what do you believe? That we are fundamentally different from other animals, and seperate from the rest of the life on this planet? Do we have a soul that animals lack?
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The ability to discriminate the difference between humans and animals and the difference between individuals OF a related human family doesn't somehow tie humans as the kin to animals. The THEORY of evolution (which is continually evolving ITSELF) does that. Not so well either. That is a rather big argument among academics actually. One I'll let THEM bandy about for eternity.
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The only 'academics' debating the validity of evolution are the self-styled creation 'scientists' that shout from the fringes of biology. That debate occured when Origin was published, and has been over for a long time. What is still developing is our understanding of the mechanisms involved, and the specifics of history. A 'theory' in scientific terms does not mean a 'guess'; it is the term used for ideas that have the highest degree of confidence possible in this field.