JoeTheBro on 16 December 2012
| ArnoldRimmer said: I'd also vote for "self-awareness" and the fears etc. that stem from being aware of every creature's and thus one's own inevitable fate: death, which is said to be exclusive to humans. Hmmm, I just wonder if the "forbidden fruit of knowledge" that led to Adam and Eve's departure from the paradisiacal garden of Eden is actually primarily an allegory for that insight... |
Lots of animals are self aware. In fact I'm kinda disappointed at how primitive society thinks animals are. Most animals have an understanding of their coming death and it is defiantly not exclusive to humans. Elephants for example mourn their dead and have ritualistic behavior about it.
Animals have many complex rituals for mating and the like so why is it so far fetched that they'd have religious rituals? If we can prove animals naturally develop religion we can prove human religion is wrong.
