| MTZehvor said: Then by all means, propose this "much more probable" explanation. To an extent this behavior is, but it's much different in humans than in any other species of animal. While animals do express sorrow, depression, and the likes, humans are the species that most prominently tie these feelings to their actions as opposed to what happens around them. For example, someone feels good for donating money to a charity. Someone feels bad for having sex with some random person they've never met. The actions that animals show emotion from are generally reactionary, whereas with humans it's a response to what they themselves did. I'd also add, again, that consciousness seems odd not simply because it doesn't drive us to do things that would benefit us, but because it often drives us to do things that are against our best survival interests. |
I seriously hope you don't mean that the burden of proof of one of the greatest scientific challenges is on me, because you claim a god did it? There was a time when we thought the sun rotated around the earth and by just looking at it, you could easily assume that. Does that mean a god was behind the sun revolving around the earth, just because we hadn't found out it was the other way around yet? Just because we don't know the explanation for something, doesn't give us the right to make the most outrageous claim without proof. So in conclusion, neither you or me has any theory that we can prove, so why is a god suddenly the most probable explanation?
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