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(although lol - I'd challenge people to find those 5% on anything other than trivial stuff , like the sky is blue maybe
I mean it's a damned site more feasible than this version which follows below .... ( to which people around here arguably want to give equal merit)"big bang theory has made predictions that have turned out to be incredibly accurate , and the evidence for it being right is , well , overwhelming .
theory may mean " guess" in everyday english, but not in science. "
DAY 1.
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
DAY 2
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:
and it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
DAY 3
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of
the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
DAY 4
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:
1:15 And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
so.
1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
DAY 5
1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
if this isn't a "guess", then I'm a monkey's nephewDAY 6
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was
very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Yes that's exactly what I was getting at, clumsily.
I no longer wonder why we're here and just try to enjoy the ride. That does not preclude a journey of discovery however, whether spiritual, philosophical, of the planet, whatever.
I notice that yielding to strictly animal instincts does not make me very happy, while an interest in more nobler ideal does.
I liked the Dalai Lama's answer when questioned as to the purpose of life:
"I don't know" LOL
It is just so stupidly easy for a blind man to drive a bus through the gaping holes in creationism.
I converted to become a Humanist.
Just an animal with some special talents
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Are we any more special than just being an 'animal'?
Toddlers Are Smarter Than Apes, but Not by Much
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A German team of anthropologists has published a new study claiming that human toddlers learn better than adult apes only in certain areas -- namely "social intelligence," like learning from others -- which could influence our understanding of what sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.
The study shows that two-and-a-half-year-old human kids perform about as well as great apes -- namely chimpanzees and orangutans -- in certain physical-learning problems, like finding hidden objects or using a stick as a tool. The apes also had math skills which the kids hadn't yet developed, like estimating the number of raisins in a covered dish after watching a scientist distribute the treats.
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Science 7 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5843, pp. 1360 - 1366
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146282
Research Articles
Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis
Esther Herrmann,1* Josep Call,1 MarÃa Victoria Hernà ndez-Lloreda,2 Brian Hare,1,3 Michael Tomasello1
Humans have many cognitive skills not possessed by their nearest primate relatives. The cultural intelligence hypothesis argues that this is mainly due to a species-specific set of social-cognitive skills, emerging early in ontogeny, for participating and exchanging knowledge in cultural groups. We tested this hypothesis by giving a comprehensive battery of cognitive tests to large numbers of two of humans' closest primate relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as to 2.5-year-old human children before literacy and schooling. Supporting the cultural intelligence hypothesis and contradicting the hypothesis that humans simply have more "general intelligence," we found that the children and chimpanzees had very similar cognitive skills for dealing with the physical world but that the children had more sophisticated cognitive skills than either of the ape species for dealing with the social world.
Science 7 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5843, p. 1308
DOI: 10.1126/science.317.5843.1308
News of the Week
PSYCHOLOGY:
Nonhuman Primates Demonstrate Humanlike Reasoning
Elizabeth Pennisi
Experiments reported on page 1402 of this issue of Science suggest that the supposedly unique human ability to understand others' intentions is shared by chimps and at least two monkey species.
Science 7 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5843, pp. 1402 - 1405
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144663
Reports
The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates
Justin N. Wood,1* David D. Glynn,1 Brenda C. Phillips,4 Marc D. Hauser1,2,3
Humans are capable of making inferences about other individuals' intentions and goals by evaluating their actions in relation to the constraints imposed by the environment. This capacity enables humans to go beyond the surface appearance of behavior to draw inferences about an individual's mental states. Presently unclear is whether this capacity is uniquely human or is shared with other animals. We show that cotton-top tamarins, rhesus macaques, and chimpanzees all make spontaneous inferences about a human experimenter's goal by attending to the environmental constraints that guide rational action. These findings rule out simple associative accounts of action perception and show that our capacity to infer rational, goal-directed action likely arose at least as far back as the New World monkeys, some 40 million years ago.
Behavioral Science Turns to Dogs for Answers
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"Dogs can do things that we long believed only humans had mastered," says Juliane Kaminski of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in the eastern German city of Leipzig.
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"When it comes to understanding human behavior, no mammal comes even close to the dog," says Kaminski. Her Leipzig research team has demonstrated that dogs are far better than the supposedly clever apes at interpreting human gestures.
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Dogs are so geared toward communication with people that it seems to run in their genes.
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"Puppies are still with their mother at six weeks. The phase in which they are most susceptible to human influence only begins after that," explains Kaminski. Her conclusion is that the animals must already have the innate ability to interpret human gestures.
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FFS 2020!!
You continue to hammer the binomial, big bang vs genesis despite trying to gently point out that that is not where this discussion is at. Nobody is interested!
You are Dawkins' answer to Bullmarket.
I can be wrong but we promote weaker and weaker genetic material to slip though natural selection process.
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Our unique capabilites include:
Empathy.
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Why engineers yawn less than psychologists
Psychologists have shown that a phenomenon called "contagious yawning" is strongest in people who are more empathetic and have a more developed sense of social awareness.
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Chimps Are People Too
Time: Sunday, September 23, 8:25 PM
Channel: SBS
Duration: 55 minutes
Rating: PG
Type: Documentary
Danny Wallace, a London writer, is sent to Uganda on a scientific mission to find out the differences between apes and humans. He believes the time has come to make our hairy relatives part of the human family. Scientific research has revealed that chimps possess 99.4 percent of human DNA, considerably more than the gorilla. But what then makes humans the greatest ape? He talks to many primate experts and scientists who reject any thought that chimps are human. He visits a sanctuary where chimps are studied and experiments are carried out to work on their problem-solving ability, and they pass with flying colours. In America, he meets Sue, a woman who studies bonobos (or pygmy chimpanzees) at close range.
Currently on
question is ..
Are chimps Humans ???lol
He visits a sanctuary where chimps are studied and experiments are carried out to work on their problem-solving ability, and they pass with flying colours.
Hey whiskers what did you think of the problem solving ...Saw a little of it
... I have had an affinity for animals all my life and am not at all surprised by what they can do.
Hey whiskers what did you think of the problem solving ...
(PS I get the feeling that different chimps would behave differently btw)
And of course they talk to me, and I back to them.
LOL: say this to someone who doesn't connect with animals and they will regard you as certifiable!
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
..... Adam Smith
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
..... Adam Smith
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