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do you see the word Diety in my discussion? i'm not discussing a Diety, i'm discussing the possibility of itelligent design, and creation. perhaps you could define what you mean by Diety?
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For creation or ID, by deffinition there must be some "higher power", a supernatural force. Call it G/god/s, Zeus, Gaia, Steve or Geroge. It is all the same pile of excuses and the desire of man to have some "purpose".
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it is easy to say life is a series of chemical reactions. if so, what are these reactions, and what energizes them?
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Just crack open a biology text, perhaps a biochem text too. Pick anything and there is a electro/chemical interaction that controls it. These are all fueld by the foods we eat...
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human beings are the only live animals capable of sentient thought. animals may think in reaction to a stimulous, but they can't philosophize. they may communicate, but they have no language to transmit sentient thought
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There are many examples of "sentient" activity in the animal kingdom. Those that we can understand involve Koko (uses sign language, creates unique combinations for concepts that she does not already know) and African Grey parots, which learn to use language on about a 2-3 year old human ability.
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if the birds are the descendants of dinosaurs, they had over 90 million years head start on the humans. why didn't other animal evolutionary lines much older than humans develop more advanced capabilities than we johnny-come-latelys?
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Humans are generalists. Just about anything a human can do, there are many animals that can do it MUCH better. Our range of senses are reasonably pathetic when compared to those of the rest of the animal kingdom (and probably most other kingdoms as well). Thought is not a prerequisite for life. The most successful organisms on the planet are bacteria.
