I think this is more just the fact that the human species doesn't intuitively deal with «scale» when we get to very large numbers and bodies... finds it confusing, counter-intuitive.
The human species doesn't respond to long - term risks particularly well.
Not exact matches
Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of
human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes
humans special as a
species is that we don't limit care to our own children.
Species commonly found in
humans: Clostridium perfringens (potential pathogen), Clostridium difficile (potential pathogen), Clostridium tetani (potential pathogen; is only transiently associated with
humans,
does not colonize the intestines).
What it
does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most
species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in
humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.
Atheists aren't innocent either: eugenics, the belief that certain races
do not deserve to live because they could hinder the evolution of the
human species.
Technophobe,: Christians, Muslims and Jews
do believe in micro-evolution (the evolution inside
species) but none of these religions believe in evolutionist macro evolution, the evolution of organisms changing
species (ie, fish turning into reptiles, then turning to
humans)
So in that spirit, you can start realizing that it is the
human species which will go on, if it doesn't become too self - destructive.
I don't have to use my imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the evolution of many types of
species, including
humans.
So we Christians
do not oppose nuclear weapons because they threaten to destroy «mother earth,» but because the God we serve would not have one life unjustly taken even if such a killing would insure the survival of the
human species.
It
does not belong in public and is detrimental to the progress of the
human species.
But presuming — as I
do — the validity of the concept of geologic time, I note that the designation «Anthropocene» unavoidably suggests an exceptional quality to the
species homo sapiens, if only in terms of our collective
human powers.
I believe that throughout most of our early
human history, when our
species population was still relatively small, you simply didn't see rampant homosexuality.
The fact that
humans do not have a limited «mating season» tied to the fertility of the female should be a tip off that our
species is somewhat unique in this department.
everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me
do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the
human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different
species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different
species like in the movie time machine
If so, how
do we balance the rights and needs of
human beings against those of other
species.
We share the sense that
human beings are immersed in the natural world and
do constitute one
species among others.
She doesn't have the least interest in our god - given
human hunger for meaning and transcendent values all Mother Nature cares about is the survival of the
species which requires getting the DNA from one generation to the next and providing for the young until they are self - sufficient enough to sustain their own lives and we are the venue.
That makes our
species feel better about ourselves, and we hope that when we are the ones going through the tragedy that our fellow
humans will
do the same for us.
Less shallow because it recognizes at least that the individual is not master of his fate and can not live for himself alone, but still shallow in supposing that the
human group — class, race or
species — can
do so.
Applying Dedalus's remark to biology, one can ask: What ensures that the
human species will not someday be one of the «thousand types» for which nature
does not care, which will perish in a global holocaust of the type that befell the dinosaurs?
And having produced the
human species, the struggle for further complexity
did not suddenly cease.
And
human beings are the only
species capable of self - determination; we
do not function solely out of instinct.
As reason sets
human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by evolution alone, for we
do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the
human species but evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.
That's why I think we really need to step up the incentives to use more reliable methods that don't count on
humans to be too reliable... we just aren't as a
species.
if
humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god
did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a
species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything
humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a
species.
Thinking or knowing, as distinguishing the
human species from the lower creatures, is symbolic as applied to God, who neither knows as we
do nor fails to know as the lower creatures
do.
One would think
humans would have moved forward by now but instead we as a
species behave in the same self - destructive manner now as we
did thousands of years ago with more at stake then at any other time in history.
The perception that Christians don't care about pollution,
species extinction, and the social and
human health consequences of land degradation can ultimately drive people away from Christ.
Adolf was also preaching that all others who
did not fit into his idea of «perfect
human» should be penned up as a lesser
species.
So a chimp didn't evolve into a
human, rather an earlier form diverged to form both
species.
Has nothing to
do with actual fossils that demonstrate an evolution of a single
species over time; whether dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, or
humans.
That one set of
human beings could
do this to another set condemns our whole
species.
If we
do not attribute any special status to the
human race, then the goal should be for it to diminish in size to the point where the planet can support it alongside other
species without discrimination.
I doubt we can agree on God but can we agree
humans did not evolve from any current
species?
This doesn't mean that we're physically prepared for some cataclysmic event in terms of having a well - stocked fallout shelter, but rather that we enjoy the mental exercise of imagining the imminent peril and possible means of survival for
humans as a
species.
And quite apart from
humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new
species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to
do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.
It was probably not until the axial age, when the Israelites began to experience mystery more explicitly in the mode of future and promise, that
humans began first to realize that we
do not dwell in nature with the same instinctive ease that other
species do.
In his last book The Fragile
Species, biologist Lewis Thomas wrote that if the human species is to survive, human beings must learn to do three things and to do them well: to connect; to communicate; and to coo
Species, biologist Lewis Thomas wrote that if the
human species is to survive, human beings must learn to do three things and to do them well: to connect; to communicate; and to coo
species is to survive,
human beings must learn to
do three things and to
do them well: to connect; to communicate; and to cooperate.
Certainly consciousness
does not exist at the level of atoms and electrons, nor
does reflective self - awareness seem to appear in evolution until the
human species comes onto the scene.
I can go on and on about the attributes of other living
species acting the same way
humans do, so why
do people believe they haven't a soul?
One would submit that bird - song and bee - dance fit with the natural, physical purposes of those
species, whereas
human language and artefacts which have sophisticated goals and meanings within
human culture
do not.
You can
do so much better than to resort to such stock canards as «If
humans evolved from monkeys when you know full well what the theory of evolution says regarding the multiple
species of primates.
I
do believe in the fellowship of
humans as a
species, that I believe are worth continuing in existence.
No we
do not know every
species, but we have not and will not ever find one that has a chamber inside of it that could allow a
human to survive for days within.
why don't you start with why
humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all
species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that
humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.
Also, because
human beings are such a profoundly social
species, when we don't have meaningful relationships, we feel sub-
human, and that, in turn, exacerbates our shame.
Guess procreating, laboring, & delivering wasnt at all what my body was designed for... how ever
did humans become the dominate
species of the world?!
Meanwhile, what we
do know is that
human beings exhibit the characteristics of continual feeders, and it's a sure bet that relatively frequent, «on demand» feedings have been the historic and evolutionary norm for our
species.
Wow
did she ever stop to wonder how
humans as a
species have survived for so long on breastfeeding alone?