Ben Stein to take on Darwinism on April 18

[libellule]

Man said:

@ libellule

umm...yeah but they cant convey complex ideas. the majority of languages in other species only convey emotions.

we can convey everything including abstract ideas, ideas about time and the future.

no matter how complex a chimpanzees language is, it cannot explain to another chimp the idea of electricity (well they can if you teach them sign language, but not naturally in the wild)

==> I agree, there is a gap.

but they have language, they have memory, they are able to think, then they can learn too.

Pretty similar to us.

this is pretty similar to us. In fact, I would love to take human from different period to see what they are able to understand if we educated them FULLY from the birth :

Is the "-3Millions human" as intelligent as the "-5k" one ?

Is the -5k one as intelligent than us ? 

Am asking myself what define our capcitiy to learn, to make complex abstract concept for example, and how it has evolved in the specy.