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Originally Posted by Cynosure
I never said animals are unintelligent. I said human intelligence is vastly superior to animal intelligence.
If I say a human adult is vastly more capable of complex thought than is a human toddler, does that make it sound like a human toddler can hardly think at all?
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Okay but, looking back on these posts, my original point is that I don't think we're nearly as smart in relation to other animals as you think we are. Have you been paying attention to my emphasis on language? It's hard to tell 'cause you've been cutting it out without a response.
Speaking of which, I can't believe you edit my sentences in the quoted context. It's like you're trying to remove context to emphasize your point of view...
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Methinks this – that ol' ax of yours, that you love to grind – is what's keeping you from conceding here that human beings are vastly superior to animals in intelligence.
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How so? What does our intellect as a species have to do with Creationism?
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So, seriously... If for some reason you had to save either a church full of Creationists, or a barn full of animals, and it had to be one or the other, which would it be? Seriously.
But, of course, it's a rhetorical questions, because we already know the great lengths a rescue team will go, and the enormous costs a society will bear, just to rescue a single human being in peril.
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How serious could your question have been if it's rhetorical?
Would you be surprised if I saved the idiot filled church instead of the barn? How is this question at all relevant?
By the way, here's another YouTube gem for the discussion: