Re: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

David Opderbeck wrote:
> Well, "42".
Now all we need is the question. Don't make me start reciting Vogon
poetry.
> But why echolocation? And I'll be first in line to take the test,
> once the dolphins work up the questions, do the statistical
> validation, program it in a web-based app, and send me a password.
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> Still waiting. Still waiting.....
Actually, the dolphins are waiting on you. They think that using
pencils or pushing buttons on a keyboard is a pretty inconvenient mode
for testing (let alone that it is up here in this impossibly dry &
nutritionally impoverished atmosphere). Their test is an oral one, &
you need to swim down in the ocean to take it. The few scientists who
have tried this haven't even been able to functionally learn the
language yet, at least not enough to take the test-- must represent an
idiot species.

This is tongue-in-cheek, of course -- but not entirely. It seems the
weight of Scripture is behind Jack's view that we have eternal souls.
But there just might be more to the whole story than is revealed to us
in Scripture. We are only told what concerns us or should concern us.

--Merv

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> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Jack <drsyme@cablespeed.com
> <mailto:drsyme@cablespeed.com>> wrote:
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> First of all, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
>
> Regarding the type of intelligence we have compared to animals,
> certainly if the dolphins drew up the test, they would include
> echolocation, and we would appear to be idiots. And this has
> parallels in neuroanatomy where the portions of the mammalian
> brain responsible for things like this are enlarged in dolphins
> compared to us. But, if there is any objective criteria the EQ is
> one of them, and despite a brain that is quite different
> than ours, our brain size compared to our body size is still
> larger than dolphins, easily, but they are clearly second, (and
> rats cant compare to birds, so Doug Adams got that wrong.)
>
> But this is a difference in degree and not kind. My contention is
> that humans differ in kind because of the presence of an eternal
> soul, whether or not this is accessible to objective observation
> or not.
>

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