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Author Topic:   Can ToE explain human Brain development?
Dr Adequate
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Message 10 of 47 (529707)
10-10-2009 7:06 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Peg
10-10-2009 4:44 AM


Re: Too many topics
Apparently being smart is useful to us.
What part of this do you not understand?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 29 of 47 (529898)
10-11-2009 12:35 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by Peg
10-10-2009 8:37 AM


Re: Too many topics
but it seems we have developed a brain with a capacity that is far greater then our needs.
You think so?
You don't need to have the intelligence that you have?
Then you would be happy, I guess, to spend a month or so not making the smartest decisions you can think of, but much dumber ones? You'd get on just fine that way?
OK then, try it. Every time you have a choice to make, and your smart human brain tells you what you ought to do, ignore it and do what a monkey would do instead. Try this for a month and let us know how you get on.
And then you will maybe realize that such intelligence as you have is in fact a selective advantage and not a biological superfluity.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 30 of 47 (529900)
10-11-2009 12:40 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by Peg
10-10-2009 9:13 PM


Re: More Brain power then is necessary
I say that becuase of what researchers have discovered about human memory. The memory has been found to have the ability to grow rather then get 'filled'
They have found that its a function that is limitless.
Ah, that explains why I never forget anything. I've always wondered why I have a flawless memory, and now these smart (though curiously nameless) researchers have explained it to me.
I guess that means that creationists are right. Obviously the fact that humans have a perfect faculty of memory and the fact that God made humans by an act of special creation are inextricably logically linked, such that denying one would be tantamount to denying the other.
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