Human intelligence.

[flobadob]

We as humans regard ourselves as intelligent beings and in fairness mankind has accomplished some amazing feats. However when you think about it, how many people have been involved in these amazing feats like space travel, the internet, television, mobile phones etc. etc? Not that many I would assume. The vast majority of mankind has no input whatsoever into these amazing feats, we simply use the technology and as a species accept the credit.

Do most people really have a right to claim to be an intelligent being and take any credit for being part of these times when they actually contribute little to humankinds advancement?

Who are these individuals who are advancing our world so rapidly, and where would we be without them?

[Ankou]

if you took any of mollys suggestions seriously chakka, you might as well go to your grave and do a few turns. most in chatterbank end up doing it in a padded cell with their arms all strapped up.

but we love molly anyway.

xx

[chakka35]

Thanks for that good wish, naomi. Please forgive me for pointing out that man IS an ape, one of the five Great Apes: bonono, chimpanzee, man, gorilla and orang-utan.

molly, evolution is not something you 'believe in' as if it were a religion. It is an established science. 6 million years ago, as naomi says, a common ancestor gave rise to two branches, one of which produced various versions of homo, including, eventually, homo sapiens, and the other produced bonono/chimp. The latter two separated about 1 million years ago. End of lecture.

[chakka35]

Cheers, Ankou! I agree all round. I admire molly fo her enquiring mind, though I gulp at some of her ideas.

[naomi24]

^^ Me too. :o)

[flobadob]

chakka said homo, snigger.

[chakka35]

Oo-er! And the AB Censor missed it!