If you try to teach a dog arithmetic / math, it will never comprehend no matter what you do or how long you try; the dog will just simply never comprehend.
What if we just simply aren't built to comprehend the purpose of the Universe or how it was created? What if we are limited to learn about the Universe just as dogs are limited to learn Arithmetic?
All of these questions about the Universe only cause us further confusion, hence the analogy of a Dog learning Arithmetic.
Ever thought of that?
2007-01-22 23:05:57 · 14 answers · asked by BerlingBurg 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I Apologize as we are on the "internet", I would just like to hear different opinions. If you're bored of answering it, did you really have to answer it again? I asked it 2 hours ago so surely different people with different opinions are on. Bless You. Much <3 Ana
2007-01-22 23:11:36 · update #1
Good point Carnac. Also lol as I read my question I begin to wonder ... If I have the ability to question my own comprehension ... then I also have the ability to extend my comprehension ... maybe infinitely? :)
2007-01-22 23:17:35 · update #2
Here is a philosophical reason for the creation of the universe.
A musician must have musical compositions to be considered a musician. A painter must have paintings to be considered a painter. A sculptor must have sculptures to be considered a sculptor.
A creator must have a creation to be a creator.
Creator and creation go together and are inseparable one from another. We are the finest creation of this creator.
Here is a more subtle and more spiritual reason for why we were created.
O SON OF MAN!
Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty.
O SON OF MAN!
I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life
2007-01-24 15:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by apicole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To compare the intelligence of a dog with that of a human is completely ridicules. Now a snake maybe but a dog come on. It is only logical to assume man will never know all there is to know about the universe. But the amazing thing is the knowledge he has learned and is still learning about it. When the bible was written man thought the world was flat and the sun revolved about the Earth. Now we know the Big Bang did much more. How amazing and beautiful Hubble telescope pictures are. No one should miss taking a look if only for their spectacular beauty.
2007-01-22 23:25:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree that we are limited to learn but we need to learn more , we need more time, The Big Bang Theory says that the Universe was born before between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago, The first Human Existed (the Chad Man) existed before 7 Millions years ago , so the Time Difference is great and we have alot of Puzzels to Solve.
2007-01-22 23:47:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but a dog doesn't ask the questions we do. A dog doesn't wonder why it gets dark at night or where the rain comes from or whether the moon is made of Swiss cheese.
I think our lack of comprehension is due to lack of data rather than lack of intellect. If only we could have observed the big bang....
2007-01-22 23:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well maybe you have the comprehension power of a canine but don't bring the rest of us down with you.
Look at Newton, at Einstein - at Bohr, Heisenberg, Planck, Schödinger, Dirac...
Humans have the potential to understand everything that exists. You asked this in religion and not philosophy or science so let me just add that nothing could hold us back more firmly than superstitious beliefs in a sky-fairy who we thought could do our thinking for us.
2007-01-22 23:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good analogy! We certainly are limited in what our brains are capable of comprehending... at least for now. I believe after death, those who are rewarded with Paradise are given the capacity to comprehend much, much more than while in our Earthly state of being.
2007-01-22 23:11:49 · answer #6 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I saw a dog on a TV show that could add two numbers. He would tap out the answer with his paw.
2007-01-22 23:11:03 · answer #7 · answered by chaotic_n_cryptic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person mind can not ever comprehend God's mind, Only in the eternal age which will be after the 1000 yrs. millennium.
2007-01-22 23:10:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure, a good analogy would be our inability to understand spacial dimensions beyond the three we know so well
but a good mathematician can understand them to some extent
2007-01-22 23:11:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a fallacious anaolgy and insults dogs everywhere.
2007-01-22 23:09:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋