Different in degree or kind: our hands (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 12, 2016, 14:59 (2967 days ago) @ dhw
edited by David Turell, Saturday, March 12, 2016, 15:51

dhw:So where are you going to draw the line? God gave some organisms innovative intelligence but others had to be preprogrammed or personally tutored? And according to you, all of them, extant and extinct, only serve/served the purpose of balancing nature in order to produce and feed us humans. Ah, where would we have been without the weaverbird's nest?-I wish I knew why and how the nest exists. It can be interpreted, as it is in a book by believers that God is the guide. On page 110 of Nature's I.Q. nine knots are displayed, and seven of which are highly complex and would make a sailor proud , all from these nests. BBella and dhw have not seen these knots ( I assume) yet they think the birds invented them in their theoretical discussions. Look at the knots!!!. Seeing is believing. Remember, I'm presenting my active research, not theory. I cannot accept this as bird inventiveness. -
> dhw: And if your God exists, I have no problem assuming he could have given them all the degree of autonomous consciousness that would, as BBella puts it so succinctly, “make every living thing innovative in their own way”.-Look up the knots in the nest!-I cannot find the knots on the internet but this article describes how they do the tieing of knots:-http://www.wonderwhizkids.com/weaver-birds