Hoot Mon writes:
The human is like any other animal, we’re all hard-wired to fear death. Some animals take up arms races to counter what they fear, such as the porcupine.
I disagree. Living things are aversive to aversive stimulus. I don't think an ameoba fears death but it will move away from an acidic solution.
Hoot Mon writes:
Some animals take up arms races to counter what they fear, such as the porcupine.
Incorrect:
Fear had nothing to do with it. You are assigning an affective drive to evolution.
Hoot Mon writes:
But you, rob, want to see humans as a special creation.
This pains me, it really pains me; but I have to go with Rob here with a caveat.
Humans
are special but it is becuase of the complexity of our brains not special creation. It is possible that other non human animals may fear death but I would argue the level of abstraction we can.
Humans fear death on a level of cognitive recognition. So we can conlude that the god assumption is just another overvalued idea in the human mind and therfore quite natural.
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