Is denying the "specialness" of humanity the ultimate insult to religious people?

Question

Especially Christians and Muslims?

Answer 1

We *are* special - we're just not special in the kinds of ways that unenlightened religious folks think we are. We're a very special species of animal with very special talents, which have made us extraordinarily successful. Isn't it enough to recognise that without having to invent gods and goddesses to attribute it to? I think it is.

Answer 2

This may or may not be irrelevant - me and my friend were watching the animatrix and we ended up having endless arguments because he can't agree that robots might ever be given rights. It all comes down to one question - can a non human per a person? a lot of people will always say no, and i don't think deep down the reason is entirley religious, it's a natural obcession humans have with themselves. I howver, for whatever reason, say yes. And if that means i end up voting for a plant based lifeform for prime minister in 2038 so be it

Answer 3

It is also insulting to the radical academic left. Strange how the sword of truth cuts both ways.

Then you would ignore the post-modern, relativistic attack on evolutionary theory by some of the more radical humanities, social science and " studies " scholars. This was brought into sharp relief by the 1994 tome. " The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science " by Gross and Levitt. Followed about 6 years later by " Higher Superstitions " by Sokal and Brimount.

I am an evolutionary biologist and many time I and my colleges have looked askance at what is going on in these other discipline I mentioned with the ideological nonsense purported to be truth. Where do you think the evil that is empiricism, romanticism and dualism is still held in religious awe?

I do not give a damn about your " fish guy " cousin, but when some radical feminist tell me human sexuality ( read gender; the social science confused term ) is " special " because it is divorced from evolutionary processes and " socially constructed " I, as an evolutionary biologist, think evolutionary theory is being insulted by a person who is as any " fundie ", ideologically driven.

Furthermore, I find your ignorance of this radical lift incoherence suspicious, to say the least. A " fundie " is a " fundie " and ideology makes strange bedfellows.

Oh, Michelle. Grammer is not extremly poloarized. I see the sword of igrorance cuts both ways also.

Answer 4

I don't see why, since we all know we are mammals, upright apes to be specific.

I have seen the believers of some faiths act angrily as they deny this fact, and it's beyond my understanding. I was raised in a Christian family and my parents accepted evolution as fact.

Maybe with other faiths, their creation myths have humans emerging from somewhere or some other creature, and it is not upsetting to know we are mammals.

"The academic radical left"? Where'd you pull that one from. I have a few friends in academia, a few of whom could be considered liberal-left, and none are science-fearers.

Addendum: I am not an evolutionary biologist. I'll ask my icthyologist nephew tomorrow, who has worked in evolutionary biology, about "human specialness insulting evolution". I'll be prepared for a hearty Cuban laugh, then a conversation on how it upholds evolution.

Ah, the ten percent brain myth again, which was begun by an ad agency many years ago. Over the course of 24 hours, we use all of our brains, Michelle. It's an urban myth.

What are the "facts" of creation? I'm a member of the National Center for Science Education, and we follow creationists closely. None of us has yet to see a "fact of creation".

You're doing what we call the Gish Gallop- firing out questions that have more to do with other sciences and smugly thinking you're right even though you don't know the answers.

Michelle, you give yourself too much credit. I have been responding all along and I never give you a thumbs down. You may be very wrong or misled in my opinion but evolution commands me to leave your pretty smile on my screen (male biological imperative). And I suspect you gave ME a thumbs-down. Pot, meet kettle.

Try those arguments with a biology professor at any nearby community college and see who gets "owned". You'll be in tears. I've seen it happen to a evangelical Christian student who scored a 35 on her ACT yet tried to take on a scientist in her role as a creationist. She was bawling even though he was kind to her.

Answer 5

Would not the denial of human 'specialness' be the ultimate insult to evolution?
Seeing as humans have way beyond what is required mentally, as to what evolution would have provided as necessary.
Even science recognizes that humans typically use less than 10% of their brain capacity in a lifetime. Seems that this fact alone, would get the atheists to think! But alas, they would rather go the way of the ostrich.
For instance, what survival purpose is served by the human race's capacity to create art?
Or to design great structures that have virtually nothing to do with the survival of the species?
Or the creation of music?
And how, does evolution explain the existence of the thousands of different spoken languages, with the extremely polarized forms of grammar?
Oh, that's right, it doesn't.

Creation-the logical fact.
(As opposed to atheism-the logical choice, see, atheism is a choice, creation, is a fact!)

Let the thumbs down commence!
(from the atheists of course, who are un-endingly whining that creationists, give them thumbs down for dis-agreeing-why do you do it atheists? Because you too, like the people you slander continuously, are just the same? Only looking for approval from those of your kind? pathetic! You just got owned!)

Answer 6

No, we are the only living things with souls, so we aren't deterred by others' misguided opinions. The ultimate insult is mocking God and Jesus.

Answer 7

Absolutely!!!!!!!!!