Ben Stein to take on Darwinism on April 18

[libellule]

rocketpig said:

libellule said:

==> I also never said "smarter". I said "match"

But do you think Dolphin have a conscience of their existence as we have ?
I personnaly doubt.

do you think dolphin have a conscience of the world we are living ?
I doubt too.

do you think Dolhin will EVER ask themselve the question :  do you think we are more intelligent than human ?""

 I think this is what make us so different of the others species :

conscience of our self
+ conscience of our world
+ big stupid all the time question like "are we more inteligent that Dolphins ?"

Actually, dolphins are one of three groups that are self-aware. Man, apes, and dolphins.

There were actually a lot of really interesting studies done to determine self-awareness in animals. Try Googling them, it's definitely worth a read. 

edit: Wow, just did a little more research. Recent evidence has shown that elephants may be self-aware on some primitive level, too. Interesting. 

==> I knew some experiments were done on Dolphin/Monkey and that they stated some individuals (the importants word is "some") were able to self-awareness (mirror expeiment). But even if we believe in this, it doesnt change the expected quantitative gap between these species and us.