religion-is-a-mental-illness: noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination: religion-is-a-mental-illness: Common C
religion-is-a-mental-illness: noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination: religion-is-a-mental-illness: Common Creationist Misconceptions No. 25-32. nah fam the “animal” argument is kind of subjective and altogether not even that related to theism ability to appreciate art and high-level thinking separates us from animals humans not being animals doesn’t make god or any other deities real, however we’re all here on this mud ball by chance Humans are animals. Calling it “subjective” and trying to pass it off as some kind of pseudo-intellectual philosophical bullshit because you don’t like it is dishonest and scientifically ignorant. It’s not “agree to disagree” any more than gravity or electricity is “agree to disagree”: you either accept it or you’re wrong. Because smarter people than you (and i) figured it out, mapped it out in comprehensive detail across DNA, chromosomes and genes, proteins, biological morphology and more, across hundreds of years, in books and volumes and studies and data. More so than your less-than-cogent:nah famDenial will not help you.We are a species of animal. The science - the biology, the genetics, the anthropology, the chemistry - proves it. If you’re that insecure about recognizing you are a form of animal - distinct, but still an animal - then that’s a problem you need to work on yourself in regards to your ability to deal with reality, and your belief that your feelings constitute it. For Quetzalcoatl’s sake, why on Earth do you think animal lab test animals have been a thing for decades (and more recently, protests about them)?ability to appreciate art and high-level thinking separates us from animalsFirstly, “high-level” actually is subjective, and all you did is name things that you value. Cite me a paper that lists those as objective criteria for separating animals from…. whatever the hell you think we are. They separate us only from other species and are in no way evidence we are not animals. You can’t fly. You can’t lay eggs, you can’t kill an antelope with your jaws. There’s literally thousands of things you can’t do that other species can. See well in the dark. Breathe underwater. Regrow a limb. Run at 60mph. Build a honeycomb. Communicate underwater over long distances with high-frequency whistle sounds.BTW:https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-chimpanzees-create-art-1236945444http://langint.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ai/en/album/the_drawings_by_chimpanzees.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/30/chimpanzee-wins-10000-dollars-abstract-paintinghttps://mashable.com/2017/11/05/painting-dolphins/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/lithuania/1495710/Dolphin-paintings–the-latest-in-abstract-art.htmlhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150625112010.htmhttps://www.cnn.com/2013/01/19/health/chimpanzee-fairness-morality/index.htmlhttp://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/chimps_and_bonobos_prove_that_moral_behavior_is_a_product_of_evolution/https://www.livescience.com/24802-animals-have-morals-book.htmlAnd I wouldn’t brag about “high-level thinking” in the first place if you’re unable to accept well-established, well-documented facts and instead operate solely on your instincts. You’re pretty much disproving your own point.We are not all here by chance. We are here because millions of small changes have added up over millions of years, and we are the result of being on the successful branch of that line. More species than exist today have already died out because their propagation was less successful than ours. We carried and propagated traits that worked in our advantage. Just as occurred for all the other thousands of species that exist today.Fucking deal with it, because in spite of how pseudo-”enlightened” and “intellectual” you try to cast it, this sort of claptrap, almost daring to dip its tip into the cavity of “souls” or “spiritual,” is as stupid, regressive and evidence-free as theist bullshit. This is the best retort to bullshit I have ever seen. Like if there were Oscars given for calling out someone’s bullshit this would win!! -- source link
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