Author Topic: Religion & Spirituality  (Read 4007 times)

SteveH

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Re: Religion & Spirituality
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2019, 08:13:07 AM »
No, what sets us apart is the extent to which we can do those things. Other animals have demonstrated a capacity for all of those, albeit to a limited extent.
A very limited extent indeed. Whatever you think of religion, it is symptomatic of all those, and, of animals extant today, only humans have any capacity for religion. (Some of our hominid ancestors, especially Neanderthals, probably had religion as well.)
As for the food chain, humans are not at the top of it. There are animals which kill and eat humans if they get the chance, which are therefore above us. I can't see why anyone would think the food chain relevant, anyway.
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Re: Religion & Spirituality
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2019, 08:31:05 AM »
When the term 'top of the food chain' is used it isn't always related to food, as it my case, I just meant humans were more advanced than other animal species.
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Re: Religion & Spirituality
« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2019, 08:34:54 AM »
When the term 'top of the food chain' is used it isn't always related to food, as it my case, I just meant humans were more advanced than other animal species.
More advanced is a meaningless term in evolution.

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Re: Religion & Spirituality
« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2019, 11:30:14 AM »
When the term 'top of the food chain' is used it isn't always related to food, as it my case, I just meant humans were more advanced than other animal species.
and the 'food chain' is a poor description anyway . It's more of an integrated web rather than a linear pathway with a starting and end point

Spend some time in the Australian outback on your own and then tell me humans are at the top of it .