Isn’t the deaths on the hands of the government who said that the warning system isn’t worth the cost? A lot of those deaths could have been averted by science. The question I was trying to pose was why we feel different about loss of life when it happens in all sorts of different ways.
the deaths are not on the hands of the officials. an error of judgement that contributed to an unknown percentage of the total deaths is. They are guilty of a bad decision that had grave consequences. I doubt any official there has a desire to kill or wishes anyone dead or even lacks feelings for others relative to the average person.
It should be mentioned that a number of these behaviors have been identified in other species – dolphins, for instance, display altruism even when it doesn’t aid their own survival (and, in fact, may put that survival in danger).
None of that really explains a pod of dolphins forming a tight circle around a couple humans being attacked by a great white shark, swimming in circles around them for 40 minutes, and staying that way until after the shark leaves, though.
Oh, certainly. I don’t think anyone doubts that humans are much smarter than the rest of the animal kingdom. The question, though, is whether the difference is a qualitative or quantitative one. The fact that we are the most intelligent animal does not automatically mean that no other animals possess intelligence, or possibly even self-awareness.
Sure it does. The dophins were protecting themselves from a known predator and the humans happened to be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
Look no one who’s owned an animal is going to deny they have intelligence. In fact given that there are different types of intelligence in human beings, it’s not much of a stretch to recognize that being smart as a horse or a dog requires a different kind of of bra(name removed by moderator)ower. IOW horses are the smartest animal in the world at being a horse. They aren’t very smart at being a dog. Nor are they able to reason like a human. But they are quite teachable and quite aware of themselves.
Absolutely.
Well, again – Jane Goodall and several other scientists who’ve spent a lot of time observing chimpanzees in the wild have seen them display what looks an awful lot like religious behavior. Goodall reported seeing the tribe she was observing performing seemingly ritualized rain dances, and has already been mentioned, a number of observed cases of ritual behavior in front of waterfalls have been observed.
Except the shark wasn’t paying any attention to them. It was circling the humans. The dolphins were further away from them than the shark was; they interposed themselves between the shark and the humans.
If this were the only such example on the books, I would be inclined to agree. But given the range of examples of dolphins displaying cross-species altruism (coupled with more general evidence of dolphin intelligence, up to and including the use of tools), I think there’s a pattern worthy of note here.
Rockets or computers, no. But what about simpler tools? A great many species have been observed using tools; a smaller number have been observed making tools.
There doesn’t have to be a purpose any more than a crystal formation has a purpose. It may simply “be.”
While I agree that psychology is not a science it is still a useful field of study and has made important contributions to our understanding of people.
I’m not trying to prove something only show that it could exist without God’s intervention. Hence dispelling the argument you are trying to use.
I already explained about the multitude of influences.
Because if we hadn’t you wouldn’t be asking the question.
Through the develoment of language.
Yes I’ve owned dogs and they tend to follow very simple predictable behavior patterns. A dog never paints a picture. Nor attempts poetry, or any other behavior not simply explained by their much more rudimentary brains.
they are explained by the chaotic system nature of our brains. If you lived all your life in a desert you might think a monsoon was magic but you’d be wrong. Its a product of a chaotic system (in the mathematical sense), in this case the atmosphere.
You insist on a greatness and then look for the meaning of it. Prove the greatness first.
Hmm…God ordered Abraham to kill Isaac (Genesis 22:2) …don’t you consider a parent killing their child to be a crime?
No I don’t have to prove greatness of creation. I assume somewhere in your life you’ve listened to Beethoven, seen a photo of a Michaelangelo sculpture, listened to a recording of Einstein, watched a video on Mother Teresa. There is greatness all around. If you are unaware of it you might as well BE a rock.
That is a most interesting question! Guess, we’ll never know the answer, unless we learn to communicate with dolphin, or other primates.
good exercise !
Well, many abortion doctor killers plea that way. They think they are saving many lives by killing one.