Different in degree or kind; language (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 27, 2014, 15:49 (3619 days ago) @ dhw

David: "Difference in kind" means that humans did not evolve by any form of Darwinian evolution. Our animal bodies did change very divergently from apes, but that part of us appears as evolved, or helped directly by God to evolve. On the other hand our intellect and consciousness are currently totally unexplained (See Nagel) and represent to me direct help from God.[/i]
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> dhw: Thank you for this direct, but slightly confusing answer. If our animal bodies appear to have evolved from apes, it's difficult to see how you can argue that humans did not evolve “by any form of Darwinian evolution”. -You are correct. I didn't make that answer of mine clear enough. Our physical bodies appear to have been evolved as with all other animals. I still don't know, for I cannot see any definitive evidence to decide whether it was all coded from the beginning, or assisted along the way. BUT, following Adler, our brain development and the resultant intellect and consciousness is light year apart from the true animal without that attribute. We are different in kind for that reason.