Chimp vs. human brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 15:51 (4366 days ago) @ dhw

David:The Hobbits are one of four lines of humans that co-existed in the recent past. Our line, the Neanderthals, the Denosovans and the Hobbits. Why produce a branching tree unless the result is an important part of the plan? 
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> dhw: Why indeed? Especially when you make all those other lines extinct? Why produce dodos and dinosaurs? If I plan to make a fruit cake (often an apt description of homo sapiens), do I have to make and chuck out a sponge cake, a carrot cake and a battenburg as well?-The problem you are having is the problem atheists have. They want God to have a human-ly series of logical thoughts. Evolution is a bush, not a tree, even if Darwin's notebook shows his tree. Humans are a pinnacle of development, with a brain that had no reason to develop, no challenges that made it develop. After all our cousins, the apes still exist 6-8 million years after our heads exploded, and they are still tiny-brained, with no more sense than your pet dog. -I don't know why God used the pattern of evolution we see. He knows but He is not explaining. We see the 'how' but not the 'why', so in a way we are back to the divisions between science and religion. It is permissible to guess at the why. And that permission comes from recognizing there must be a first cause, information is present which had to come from somewhere, and that cause did it the way He wanted; His logic not ours! The problem is atheists and agnostics try to out-think God. (Please see my recent entry today about zebra fish altered embryoes, where the scientists tampered and brought out pre-existing information hiding in the genome!)