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You proved that old saying completely wrong. It should read:
"One word, or perhaps 3, can often be worth a picture".
Posted on 08/26/2017 5:15:35 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan
Modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are not just incrementally superior to any other hominid or animal; we’re qualitatively different, both as the only known technologically-intelligent species and by virtue of dozens of unique abilities.
It is not a claim but a demonstrable fact that anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are vastly superior to every other form of life and, for whatever reason, all the genetic mutations that make us unique and confer over 40 traits and behaviors that result in evolutionary advantages over every other animal, occurred within a short period of time, within just one genus, and nowhere else.
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We cook our food.
“Why Are Humans Unique and Superior to All Other Animals?”
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Whom sez?????????????????????
Each species has its own technological and social structure that is pretty much impossible to duplicate with other species.
Can a human build an ant colony, populate it, create a social structure and devise the technological means for ants to become better at how they live, interact and communicate? Ants go hunting, have wars with other colonies and make baby ants. They have a social structure, homes and while I cannot confirm or deny it, take the family on outings, primarily to picnics
The human race is doing what we do for the betterment of the human race. Ants do what they do for their betterment. Right now there is an ant colony having a town hall, voting on whether the Pelosi and Schumer ant should be fed to a bunch of neonazi spiders.
Short answer: Because we have the breath of God.
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You proved that old saying completely wrong. It should read:
"One word, or perhaps 3, can often be worth a picture".
We have big brains.-—AND the ability to imagine..the concept of ‘tomorrow’better than the cat who merely buries a kill to eat later.... !
Of all God's creation, only man is created in His image. Only man has been placed over all of the creation.
Maybe because God Almighty had the Earth and seas bring forth creatures of all kinds and then decided to make Man in “our own” image and likeness?
It’s all found rather handily in the first few pages of the Bible.
Star Trek: “A Taste of Armageddon”
“That we aren’t going to kill...today.”
Why are humans superior?
Because the competition tasted good. And now we are unique as well.
Not only can they talk, they can THINK, they can reason
I would disagree somewhat.
Man is above other earthly creatures. But lower than the angels. What puts us lower than angels is our current organic bodies.
What puts us above the other earthly creatures is the quantum entanglement God imparted upon us and our incorruptible spirit selves.
And that definitely is something which requires a higher intelligence in order to grasp its meaning. However, the actual qualitative difference is not the degree of intelligence, but rather in the possession of knowledge.
We as animals have instincts / learned behaviors / etc. We as humans also possess revealed wisdom regarding good and evil.
More to your point... I say it is a unique characteristic of ours that we do NOT simply do what we do 'for the betterment of the human race'.
But rather for both Higher reasons and lower.
Because God made us that way. Any other “deep” questions?
I wondered how many posts it would take before the correct answer showed up.
“Can a human build an ant colony, populate it, create a social structure and devise the technological means for ants to become better at how they live, interact and communicate?”
Housing project comes to mind. Not as industrious, but the hive mentality is on display.
Until we learn to communicate with honey bees and understand the complexity of their society, we need not even attempt to communicate with extraterrestrials.
Animals have never taken half my income and gave it to the “poor” (many who have more than I have).
While useless politicians pad their pockets.
Vastly superior in every way but one, we’re born in sin and by remaining dead in sin we’re no better than beasts, we breathe, eat, poop, sleep and die just like them. They’re not capable of sin. They die because of our sin.
We've been doing that for millenia.
But slave plantations are out of style in America today.
Because of, as I mentioned above, human's unique possession of the knowledge of Good and evil.
We CAN do it, but mostly we don't.
that is what I say every time I go check the cows and the dog is following. I obediently get out and put down the tail gate. He is really the king.
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