Different in degree or kind: EVOLUTION (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 07, 2015, 00:16 (3391 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: It is clear that whether you believe in a soul or not, animals and humans share the same mechanism for their modes of thinking, which inevitably leads to the question of just what you think your God created separately. If animal bodies evolved and human bodies evolved, why would the animal soul-brain mechanism evolve but the human soul-brain mechanism have to be separately created? -I think you are correct as far as you have gone. Upon reflection I have told you that I equate soul and consciousness. I do think the brain acts as a receiver especially because of the evidence from NDE's. I am sure that animal consciousness/soul complexes are not the same as human and the human is different in kind not degree. I think special evolution by God created the very specialized and different upright body posture, specialized use of the arms and hands, and a very superior and different brain and consciousness. I do not see continuity but special creation. The basic reason is I see apes the same as 10 million years ago. Unchanged and vastly left behind when the human development is compared. I see no natural cause for this, or natural impetus that would drive it as a challenge to be overcome. If we assume animal improvements are evolved to improve survivorship, there is no evidence of that need in the animals we seem to have arisen from. We changed. They didn't. It is not a 'how' question to be solved. It is a 'why' question and all I see is purpose.
 
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> dhw: I didn't actually ask how it all works, but whenever I raise alternative hypotheses to your own, that is the sort of question you ask, as if not knowing invalidated the hypothesis in all cases but your own.
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> I try to work only from what I already know or can be learned, and then try to work to the best solution to what problem or theory is presented.