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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
But apes have ventured into space. In fact apes from many countries have ventured into space.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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LucyTheApe Inactive Member |
A leap straight into rhetoric, nothing's changed around here, Jar! Can you give me an example of an animal that has created an automaton?Or a bird that decided it wanted to be landscape architect? Edited by AdminModulous, : content hidden use peek to see There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything. blz paskal
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2136 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Can you give me an example of an animal that has created an automaton? One of England's most ingenious robot inventors is Dennis Weston of Leeds. His best known creation is Tinker, a six-foot-taII robot that can be programmed for such tasks as washing a car (upper right). Tinker is activated by some 430 motors and can be controlled up to two miles away via Weston's control panel (upper left). A TV camera in the robot's head even transmits a picture to the operator. In the two lower photos, Weston is shown at work on a new creation, Percy. Electronic sensors in the head (right) receive high-frequency signals that enable Percy to calculate the best route past objects in his path. Edited by Coyote, : Add text Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Can you give me an example of an animal that has created an automaton? Of course I can. I can even give you the names of some animals that have built automaton, as well as the names of apes that have gone into space. Edited by jar, : fix subtitle Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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LucyTheApe Inactive Member |
OK Jar, next questions...
There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything. blz paskal
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The automatons were all created by human animals and yes, all the apes that ventured into space went of their own volition. Many even wrote about their experiences after they got back.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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LucyTheApe Inactive Member |
Jar, do you have a reference to the memoirs of those space apes? Are you saying that humans are apes?
Do you really want to address my stated differences between humans and animals, or not? There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything. blz paskal
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Of course humans are apes. They are also animals.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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LucyTheApe Inactive Member |
Jar, at least try. When and why did only one type of animal develop the ability to reason?
How and why is it, that only one type of animal can decide how to live its life? There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything. blz paskal
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2136 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
Are you saying that humans are apes? Some distinguishing characteristics of primates include:
But wait! There's more: Superfamily Hominoidea This superfamily contains humans and their close relatives, the apes. The first hominoids first appeared about 25 million years ago. Present-day hominoids are characterized by the absence of tails and by rather primitive rounded molars. This means that hominoid molars are less specialized than other primates. Some Hominoid characteristics include:
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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jar Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I'm sorry but what makes you think only one type of animal develop the ability to reason or one type of animal can decide how to live its life?
Those are both really silly assertions, pitiful actually, in addition to being fallacious and irrelevant. There is ample evidence that Gorillas, Bonobos, Chimpanzees, Orangutans, Ravens, Crows, Mockingbirds, Beaver, Elephant, Dolphin as well as other critters have the ability to reason and decide how to live their lives. But as I pointed out above, it is also irrelevant to the topic. There is a human ape alive today. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4220 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
I have given three points that address the topic. Now you explain why something like Neanderthal, with a bigger brain than us, went extinct? Why did all the other millions of side species in last 5 million years all go extinct? This is your problem. There are numerous reasons a larger, stronger species may go extinct while the smaller, weaker may survive. ie: Why did the smaller Carcharodon carcharius (Great white shark) survive while the much larger Carcharodon megalodonbecome extinct? The size of the brain of Neanderthal has very little do with survival. Bigger isn't necessarily better. One could say the sapiens was better at adapting to change than was neanderthal, similarly carcharius was more adaptable than megalodon. The same reason there are no dragonflies with 4 foot wingspans as of those in the Carboniferous period. If the sapiens, at the time of the Neanderthals were anything like there modern descendants, they were probably instrumental in the demise of the Neanderthals. We do do very good job of being invasive wherever we go, having caused the extinction of many species. Edited by bluescat48, : qs goof There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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LucyTheApe Inactive Member |
Thanks and G'day Coyote, nice list of suppositions, but no mention of the development of REASON and SELF DETERMINATION.
There no doubt exist natural laws, but once this fine reason of ours was corrupted, it corrupted everything. blz paskal
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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2522 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
Animals are slaves of instinct. They do not have the ability to reason deductively and do not have the power of self determination. That is why you've never read a good book written by a turtle. And why apes have never ventured into space. I already gave an example of an animal reasoning. Reasoning was needed for the raven to figure out how to fashion the hook from the wire and use it to fetch the food. As for turtles and books, I suspect the reason we haven't read any books written by turtles has as much to do with their inability to hold a pen or use a typewriter. And as for apes in space, lest your forget, humans are apes. We've ventured into space. Oh, and if by "apes" you mean "chimps", you should remember chimps were in space before we were.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2136 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: |
nice list of suppositions... Name one that is a supposition. (Note tagline.) Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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