Some Questions For Evolutionists?
Posted on 19. May, 2012 by admin in Uncategorized
Why are human beings the only species able to…
- display a complex consciousness (making us capable of abstract reasoning, introspection, extremely advanced and complex problem solving, and generating and sharing thoughts, ideas, words, and literature?
- advance almost limitless technology (what the human mind can conceive, it can, in all probability, invent, produce, and use)?
- build complex societies with laws, courts, rules, and written codes of multifaceted regulations?
- build prisons in order to separate certain members of our society from the rest?
- build complex buildings for shelter, which we then arrange into communities and sprawling cities with interconnecting, complex, technological infrastructures?
- transport and mobilize through artificial means of technology produced transportation vehicles?
- invent technologies that travel underwater, through the air, and into space?
- use complex language forms– spoken, written, and signed with our hands and body motions?
- invent artificial technological language forms, such as the various types of computer languages?
- invent more than six thousand unique language types within our own singular species?
- produce written, generational knowledge fashioned in a specific manner for generational transference?
- build libraries, write books, build schools for education, and invent computers that store our generational knowledge?
- produce and wear clothing?
- discover and use various mathematical principles and apply them to the invention of numerous technologies?
- invent the art of tool crafting, manufacturing, and use?
- seek control and manipulate the environment in which we live (we are the only species that is remotely capable of this)?
- build temples and altars and altars and to worship, both as individuals and as a corporate community?
- build fires and construct artificial fire-making devices?
- cook food?
- produce medicines and provide medical assistance for each other as well as the animal life around us?
- Perform surgery?
- care for all the other species of the world in a concerted effort?
- build weapons of war and assemble in military units to wage war against entire societies?
- build zoos where we contain and study examples of the other life around us?
- believe in God?
18 Responses to “Some Questions For Evolutionists?”
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Quagmire
19. May, 2012
it’s evolution.
Zaros
19. May, 2012
The capabilities of our brain alone are able to accomplish these things.. Don’t get where you were going with that at all until i saw “believe in God”. Thought you were being sneaky you sly dog…
OO
20. May, 2012
You left off
- produce idiotic rants on the Internet?
and
- not grasp the previous answers to his bullshit posts?
Mr. Bluelight
20. May, 2012
Primates have some of these abilities. Research a bit before posting nonsense.
Chimpanzees have built rudimentary tools for catching ants, for example.
Andymcj78 - Atheist
20. May, 2012
The usual pick and mix of sophisticated sounding questions which are cynically intended to muddy the waters. If you can’t convince people with logic you can always blind them with bullsh!t.
Great Gazoo
20. May, 2012
We have a culture….which helps the species survive. Its exactly the kind of thing evolution selects for.
Immune to Indoctrination
21. May, 2012
Opposable thumbs and well developed brains (As for the last one some aren’t quite as ‘well developed’ as others). I could make a similarly long and repetitive list of things that giraffes can accomplish with their long necks that no other species could.
Saul Tigh
21. May, 2012
This isn’t a question. It’s a troll jerking off.
ptvdml
21. May, 2012
1) I should point out that a lot of your points are redundant examples of the same thing.
2) Your argument is basically the equivalent of “look I can’t explain these therefore God did it!”—- to which I say even if nobody knows and answer to a Question, that doesn’t justify accepting a random unsupported hypothesis as absolute unquestionable “truth”.
Edit:
3) To answer your question you should study our evolutionary past. You will see very interesting things such as one of the reasons for our intelligence is our social structure:
—- Look at our closest living and extinct relatives which are all intelligent to varying degrees which live in smaller groups even compared to our ancient ancestors. This is partly the result of a mutation that allowed us to produce more vocal sounds relative to these other species.
—–It is because of this mutation that we were able to develop better communication/language faster, which is a key factor that allows for larger social groups and consequently faster knowledge accumulation and again in turn greater civilization & sophistication.
—-For example compared to our closest species the Neanderthal which our ancestors out competed and led to their extinction. They were very close genetically to us but if memory serves they were not able to produce a language as sophisticated as us because they could not produce an equal number of sounds and their group size was small next to early Homo-sapiens. Chimps and other living Apes have even lesser range of sounds which limits their ability to make a more sophisticated language, yet despite that they are able to coordinate attacks, defenses, alert for predators, make tools and teach younger chimps to make and use said tools.
Rebel_H
21. May, 2012
The answer is the frontal lobe. Only mammals have it, and ours happens to be larger than the rest of mammals. It’s the adaptation that help us survive when predators much stronger and larger than us threatened our survival.
There is also the fact that we have developed a speech center and language and have hands that can grasp and use tools.
All the things you listed are actually a consequence of Culture which is something that emerged when humans could effectively communicate by speaking and then by writing. Take a feral child for example, and they will know none of the things you have listed.
jflom
21. May, 2012
Some species have camouflage, some have toxic poisons, some are fast, some can fly, we have brains that give us more intelligence.
Not refuting everything you mentioned, but there are a few things to note:
Other species have their methods of communicating.
We aren’t the only species that build weapons.
We aren’t the only species that look after and take care of other animals.
We aren’t the only species that seek control over our own species.
Bulldog Drummond
21. May, 2012
Man is the only species capable of doing those things because man is the only species with an enormously expanded cerebrum. How such a cerebrum evolved is a complex question. Some evolutionary biologists believe that sexual selection rather than natural selection is a large part of the answer (the peacock’s tail is another example).
High intelligence has very high energy costs. Other species have found ways to live that don’t entail paying those high costs.
ANDRE L
22. May, 2012
HONEST people ask Science questions in the Science section.
DISHONEST people ask (what they try to make look like real) Science questions in R&S.
Thank you for the added evidence that religion = BAD morals.
-It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.
The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution.-
- R. C. Lewontin “Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth” Bioscience 31, 559 (1981) reprinted in Evolution versus Creationism, op cit.
Charles
22. May, 2012
Evolution caused all this to be possible. We evolved to the level where we can do this. Although some species of animals can do the some of the points to which you have highlighted to some degrees. Ants and crows form Armies and go to war against each other. Some types of chimps use tools to help in their tasks. Most pack animals form some form of complex society with leaders and rules.
Julie
22. May, 2012
why are cats the only animal able to retract their claws?
why are elephants the only animal with trunks?
why are giraffes the only animal with long necks?
Lightnin
22. May, 2012
The same reason why whales are the only species of mammal able to hold their breath for hours and dive to depths even submarines can’t handle. Why dolphins are the only species able to shunt an unwanted mate’s apparatus to a fake receptacle in order to avoid being impregnated by a substandard male. Why only certain species of plants are able to digest meat. Why some animals spit poison and others don’t. Humans happened to develop sentience, and all the things that go along with it, because it was evolutionarily advantageous to them. Other animals developed other ways to survive.
Do you know the price for our intelligence? In order to make tools with our opposable thumbs, we need to walk upright. Because we walk upright, our hips articulate in a nonideal manner, causing our females great distress during pregnancy and childbirth. Because of our great intelligence, our brains are extremely large for our frames. Thus our young have to be born before the brain is fully developed and the head gets too large to fit through the birth canal, making humans the most vulnerable of infants. The large head also causes the mother even more distress during labor.
So…is it any wonder that this only developed in one species? I mean, what great advantage does our intelligence really give us? Honestly, the mosquitoes are beating us in the evolution race. The evolutionary compromises necessary for us to develop our current intelligence are just so unlikely it’s a wonder it’s even happened once; why on Earth would we expect it to happen more often than that?
Pyriform
22. May, 2012
Evolution is such a slow process that it has taken this long for even one species to develop the intelligence necessary for those things. In time others animals may evolve to do so, if they can compete with us or we go extinct.
Ricardo
22. May, 2012
You tried that before, it was absurdly stupid the first time. It isn’t any more intelligent now.