Do you think we are forgetting that we are basically just animals?

With the pace of our recent evolution and the incredible breakthroughs that we as a species have achieved, do you think we are losing sight of the fact that we are in fact just hot blooded animals with the same desires, needs etc and a lot of our current issues stem from that fact, and our desire thwart nature at every turn.

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SteelHands · 61-69, M

Animals don't build cities. They don't aspire to understand the universe or how it came into existence. Neither do they record their parentage, their life storys, their impressions for future generations to learn and remember them.

In fact animals don't do much at all. Except be. Some imitate or follow human conditioning and even seem to think in some instinctive ways.

We occupy this planet along with them only bit to claim that they and we are anything so alike that we share a common word definition is insulting to both animals and humans.

Humans have many good and almost profoundy so, characteristics. So do many animals. Drawbacks as well. This by itself isn't enough to say that we are animals or that animals are like us.

People who say that have a problem in their thought process, it would seem.

garmicsmi · 41-45, M

@SteelHands So we were created as we are today? And we haven't evolved in over time?

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@garmicsmi Not according to the rules of entropy.

If you apply the well known scientific belief, the first humans would have been more perfect than we are.

If you think that any breed of creature improves over time, either through mutation or genetic design, you can check with the AKC and a few others not as interested in debate as they are in the actual truth.

garmicsmi · 41-45, M

I don't think anything it isn't my field of expertise and I won't begin to pretend that I know anything on the subject.

I was of the belief though that science has been able to prove a link between us a cave men, and that 100 years ago science was so advanced as it is today. That we are becoming taller with time and have adapted over millenia, in the same way that Darwin has suggested animals have evolved.

I am sure that having watched my children they have pretty basic animalistic urges as young children that need to be nurtured and adapted to conform to current behavioural standards of society.

Mamapolo2016 · F

If your point is we need to be more animal-like...I think we're doing pretty well at that.

Animals take what they need when they need it..,would you be confortable with that?

Suppose somebody needed you car, or yoyr iPOD or your girlfriend?

garmicsmi · 41-45, M

@Mamapolo2016 There isn't really meant to be a specific point per se it was meant to open up a discussion.

The question came in to my head as we were discussing natural selection at work, and how we think that as species we are making a mockery of nature, and should we be doing it, or will it lead to our eventual downfall with over population etc.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@garmicsmi Whew. Had me worried there.

Alabamiangods · 46-50, F

Alabama people are not animals

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