Suave

There's sort of a consensus among social scientists that what separates us from other animals is language. If you have a human child that is raised without learning a language (and it has happened), their cognitive and social development is severely stunted, and their behaviour does not become much more complex than a chimpanzee's. Language is the basis for everything that makes us human, in the narrowest sense of the term. I won't go into my spiritual beliefs, or fundamental aspects of "humanity", but suffice to say that language pretty much explains the vast majority of our differences.

TheKak, that's a huge oversimplification. My response was oversimplified as well (due to my tiredness and lack of inclination), but yours (not to be offensive) resembles a typical pseudo-intellectualist response. I don't presume to judge you in terms of how learned you are, or your intellect, but I found the parallels of your answer to a certain "type" of person's rather interesting. To contribute to the type of statement you just made, I may as well say that Earth is simply a glorified sphere, and nothing more. It is, in fact, much more than that, and the evidence is plain except to the senseless.