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Quote by: Winter wind  I stand corrected. I didn't look at the link. However, you still haven't proven that:
Dog living with humans = human like intellect
Once you do, I'll shut up.
I can't believe I'm making this argument, but what about morals? I know religion doesn't have a copyright on values, but what's so bad about religion? Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Buddha, Confusions, Mother Teresa, hell, most great people of action were religious. (while it's true so were a lot of evil people, the above people based their greatness in their religion.) |
A child raised by humans will learn how to be human from them. The child may learn barbaric values, and turn out to be as those we put in prison, or a child may learn to be very civilized and become a lawyer fighting for justice. How we turn out is not as simple as being a human and different from other animals. One could argue, we are retarded apes, because it takes us much longer to mature. Our personalities don't solidify until age 30, and then we continue to go through life changing phases.
What is so bad about religion is the fallacy of what it means to be human. To be human is not equal to being mortal angels. We are not cut from the same Adam and Eve mold, but are are as diverse as the nature can make anything.
You brought up an excellent point! Another thing that makes us different from animals is our great diviersity. No other creature can be as diverse as humans.
It is the sum total of all our differences, that makes us to different from animals.
Each individual is uniquely different. Groups of humans, such as tribes and nations are different. Even as individuals, we do not remain the same throughout our lives, but are constantly changing. The religious story of creation is misleading. We were not made from a mold, equal in all ways, and then from there either sinful or angelic.