If evolution is true, how come humans are the only intelligent beings?

[RyanM]

We're the only intelligent species on the planet because we killed all the other ones. ;-)

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: MachFive
We're the only intelligent species on the planet because we killed all the other ones. ;-)

 

[bigalt]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt
What about dolphins?

Humans say that they are more intelligent because they build cars and cities while dolphins eat fish and play around all day. Dolphins contend they are more intelligent for the same reasons.

Ryan

So the dolphins have told us that they are more intelligent than us? Sounds like someone's been smoking something pretty strong...

Way to be literate, my man!

laugh, douglas adams = literature?

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt
What about dolphins?

Humans say that they are more intelligent because they build cars and cities while dolphins eat fish and play around all day. Dolphins contend they are more intelligent for the same reasons.

Ryan

So the dolphins have told us that they are more intelligent than us? Sounds like someone's been smoking something pretty strong...

I know I butchered the quote, but you need to recognize the Douglas Adams. If you haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide series, do yourself a favor and get out from behind your screen, do something productive, and read those books.

R

I downloaded the audiotape awhile ago, but it was so rediculus that I couldn't finish it.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

 

[GagHalfrunt]

If evolution isn't true and we were truly created by some great bearded cosmic muffin, how come we're the species least adapted to his environment. We need to build houses, harness fire and cultivate food because we have survival skills below those of a newborn raccoon. We have very poor ability to deal with extremes of temperature, too much water, not enough water, we're easy to starve, easy to kill and totally defenseless without tools. When mankind eventually damages the planet to the point where it no longer can support human life, the plants and the insects will go onward and we won't be missed.

If there's a God and he truly created the master species on earth in his image, you better bring a big can of Raid to the afterlife because insects are in most ways FAR superior to us. They're better adapted to this environment and will easily survive whatever calamity (either natural or manmade) kills us off. Remember that dinosaurs ruled this planet unchallenged for over a million years. We've been around for 100,000 or so. Insects were here long before the dinosaurs ascended and they'll be here long after we're gone.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: bigalt

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt
What about dolphins?

Humans say that they are more intelligent because they build cars and cities while dolphins eat fish and play around all day. Dolphins contend they are more intelligent for the same reasons.

Ryan

So the dolphins have told us that they are more intelligent than us? Sounds like someone's been smoking something pretty strong...

Way to be literate, my man!

laugh, douglas adams = literature?

For the imbecilic:

lit·er·a·ture ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ltr--chr, -chr)
n.
The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: ?Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity? (Rebecca West).
The art or occupation of a literary writer.
The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.
Music. All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Lifer
Nothing comes close to the intelligence of humans.
Not monkeys, not dolphins... NOTHING.

So if evolution is true, then how come humans are the only that evolved into what we are today?

We do not have any equal.
Most animals have "relatives"... like different species of fish, cats, etc.

there are many species with unique capabilities, what is your point? there has to be a best.

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt
What about dolphins?

Humans say that they are more intelligent because they build cars and cities while dolphins eat fish and play around all day. Dolphins contend they are more intelligent for the same reasons.

Ryan

So the dolphins have told us that they are more intelligent than us? Sounds like someone's been smoking something pretty strong...

I know I butchered the quote, but you need to recognize the Douglas Adams. If you haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide series, do yourself a favor and get out from behind your screen, do something productive, and read those books.

R

I downloaded the audiotape awhile ago, but it was so rediculus that I couldn't finish it.

You don't listen to books, you READ THEM!

Adams is classic science fiction literature. Don't be a snob about books and literature. Just because they aren't classic novels doesn't mean they aren't a good read.

R

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030512/neanderthal.html

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

Umm. they were 2 different species... there were Neanderthals, and there were Cro-Magnons (us). Maybe you should know your stuff before you laugh at others.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/evidence/prog6/page5_2.shtml

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: rgwalt
What about dolphins?

Humans say that they are more intelligent because they build cars and cities while dolphins eat fish and play around all day. Dolphins contend they are more intelligent for the same reasons.

Ryan

So the dolphins have told us that they are more intelligent than us? Sounds like someone's been smoking something pretty strong...

I know I butchered the quote, but you need to recognize the Douglas Adams. If you haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide series, do yourself a favor and get out from behind your screen, do something productive, and read those books.

R

I downloaded the audiotape awhile ago, but it was so rediculus that I couldn't finish it.

You don't listen to books, you READ THEM!

Adams is classic science fiction literature. Don't be a snob about books and literature. Just because they aren't classic novels doesn't mean they aren't a good read.

R

I have the feeling Douglas Adams will be our Dante to the future. 😀

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

well from what i know they were distant cousins. its debated whether homospaiens killed em off, or interbred them off. and yea, its possible we've killed off many of our distant distant cousins along the evolutionary road🙂 like branches on a tree.

 

[gopunk]

Umm. they were 2 different species... there were Neanderthals, and there were Cro-Magnons (us). Maybe you should know your stuff before you laugh at others.

but then we wouldn't be able to correct him 😛

 

[djheater]

Discussions of evolution and natural selection are unfortunately fraught with mis-anthromorphism ( I made that one up). Evolution and Natural Selection don't care whether you're smart or not. They are not replacements for God, nor do they preclude the existence of a higher power.

Being smart may have been one of the things that tipped the scales and allowed us to reproduce and survive, or it may just be an accidental mutation. Being smart is an assesment of a nebulous concept of 'intelligence'. We're smart by human standards, that's all. Do you think we're smart by God's standards?

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

well from what i know they were distant cousins. its debated whether homospaiens killed em off, or interbred them off. and yea, its possible we've killed off many of our distant distant cousins along the evolutionary road🙂 like branches on a tree.

Exactly... we probably killed every other intelligent threat to us. Heck, we even kill our own species, do you really think it's that farfetched we would have killed others?

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030512/neanderthal.html

0wn3d!

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: djheater
Discussions of evolution and natural selection are unfortunately fraught with mis-anthromorphism ( I made that one up). Evolution and Natural Selection don't care whether you're smart or not. They are not replacements for God, nor do they preclude the existence of a higher power.

Being smart may have been one of the things that tipped the scales and allowed us to reproduce and survive, or it may just be an accidental mutation. Being smart is an assesment of a nebulous concept of 'intelligence'. We're smart by human standards, that's all. Do you think we're smart by God's standards?

well i don't think that being smart allowing us to reproduce and survive and being an accidental mutation are mutually exclusive 😉

 

[bigalt]

For the imbecilic:

lit·er·a·ture ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ltr--chr, -chr)
n.
The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: ?Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity? (Rebecca West).
The art or occupation of a literary writer.
The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.
Music. All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.

my fault, I was hung up on the artistic value bit.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
Because we killed off our other intelligent cousins, the Neanderthals.

This is true. If Homo-sapiens did not kill off Neanderthals, there would be two groups of "intelligent" primates on the earth. Some scientists contend that Neanderthals may have been just as smart, or smarter, than Human Beings.

hah, if you believe in evolution then you should recognize that 'humans' evolved from neanderthals, or as they like to call it, the neanderthals with the 'better' traits outlived the 'dumber' ones. But they were not 2 different species....

well from what i know they were distant cousins. its debated whether homospaiens killed em off, or interbred them off. and yea, its possible we've killed off many of our distant distant cousins along the evolutionary road🙂 like branches on a tree.

Exactly... we probably killed every other intelligent threat to us. Heck, we even kill our own species, do you really think it's that farfetched we would have killed others?

lol yea, much like the chimps we are a homocidal bunch🙂

 

[idNut]

"If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?"

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: idNut
"If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?"

why are your distant cousins still alive?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: idNut
"If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?"

is this a serious question... or was it just a funny quote? no offense intended...

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: idNut
"If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?"

We didn't evolve from apes. You've watched to many cartoons. We MAY have had a common ancestor from which multiple species evolved.