I accept evolution, BUT why are we sooooo damn different from other animals ?

Are you suggesting that a parrot is not different from a killer whale? Or a spider from a horse?

 

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Then you did a lousy job of making it.

I can't make any sense of the question, but it should be obvious that the salient differences between humans and animals are qualitative, not quantitative.

No, intelligence alone is insufficent to yield discoveries such as those of Newton and Einstein - which is why the latter observed that science without religion is lame.

 

No way man , space aliens banged something.

 

Language accounts for most of it. It allows for knowledge to "pile up" over time, and allows for more complex social organization.

 

Right, space aliens banging neanderthals. Funny how reproduction is this precise process that requires 99.9% similar mates but for some reason species from totally different planets were somehow able to do the deed. Also why would some super-advanced species flying among the stars want to mate with an inferior ape-species in the caves of some backwater planet?

 

I guess you don't watch ancient aliens .

 

Love that show.

 

Doesn’t that depend on the scale you’re measuring the quality of things though? How do you even compare human intelligence with things like the ability to fly, hibernate or survive in extreme (from our point of view) environments? I’d suggest the only reason we hold up intelligence as something special is because intelligence is what we’re using to make that judgement.

Possibly some discoveries but we could certainly have development much of the fundamental social structures that are being held us as the line of distinction between us and other animals and even if we consider “genius” as key, that’s really just intelligence at the extreme so it’s still an element of the same species characteristic.

 

I don't. You're the one fixated on that.

Intelligence alone would never have produced the United States of America.

No it isn't.