What made Humans, humans? Why are we evolved more than say, the Hippo, or a Wasp? What makes us different? Was it a change in our enviorment? Was it just random "mutations" that made us this way? Or maybe, the only thing that seperates us from every other animal is the ability to imagine? Imagination is the biggest thing seperating us from other animals. Well, maybe . And if this is true, how did we develop this ability? Again, was it a random "mutation"?
Again, I take a part out of Micheal Crichtons "The Lost World" (I reffer to this book a lot)
"If you believe the current theory, then all the wonderful complexity of life is nothing but the accumulation of chance events- a bunch of genetic accidents strung together. Yet when we look closely at animals, it appears as if many elements must have evolved simultaneously. Take bats, which have echolocation- they navigate by sound. To do that, many things must evolve. Bats need specialized apparatus to make sounds, the need specialized ears to hear echoes, the need specialized brains to interpret the sounds, all these tings don't evllve cimultaneously, there's no advantage. And to image all these things happen happen purley by chance is like imagining that a tornado can hit a junkyard and assemble the parts into a working 747 airplane. It's very hard to believe."
Now, I could have seperated the two subjects, what seperates us from other animals, and the evolution theory, but I didn't . Just don't reply to one and forget the other one.
Thanks
Phil