Here's what threw me off:

Here is what's really cool: God (Yes THE God) said he created us in his own image. Not a monkey, not a giraffe, us! And He said we have higher authority over the angels of heaven and that we have the same power as Christ, The Manifitation of the Holy Spirit. That's what I belive and I'm sticking to it.(crap I knida went off topic there...)

Well, I'm still not sure how that disrupts the point about the higher intelligence and the basketball and stuff... it all made sense without the last paragraph.

Basketball, okay. Just because we can play basketball doesn't mean we're better.

There are things an animal can do that we can't, and vice versa.

Going by the UrbanDictionary definition of that word, I'd say we're pretty far from a full-scale war on animals...

That was not the whole point of the basketball thing. Do you even remember what that post way back there said?

All those things are great on our standards. You're only speaking from a human level. I didn't miss the point, I got the point. I'm saying that those things are only "great" because we say they are.

200 mph > 80 mph, no matter what you are. The point is since there isn't much an animal can do that a person couldn't do (physically, or with our technology), there aren't any ways that animals are better than humans; we could build a nest or go 80mph if we wanted to. In fact, the fact that we can call ourselves better is one way that we're better - animals can't even debate that for themselves.

Look, we don't know everything about animals, but there are some things there can do and some things we can do, that others can't. There is no way you can dismiss the fact that we can't run 80 mph, that we can't fly, that we can't swim like any fish. What about those things? Or is being able to do things that we can do without the help of anything else, being able to do it naturally, just no matter at all?

Look, we don't know everything about animals, but there are some things there can do and some things we can do, that others can't. There is no way you can dismiss the fact that we can't run 80 mph, that we can't fly, that we can't swim like any fish. What about those things? Or is being able to do things that we can do without the help of anything else, being able to do it naturally, just no matter at all?

As stated above, it is a case in which what man may be lacking in physical prowess, he makes up for by ingenuity. A cheetah can run 80mph, but we can go faster. We win.

And actually, we can fly. Just drop by your local airport sometime to see it in action.

In any case, I think whatever "superiority" we may have is rather meaningless anyway. We're probably not going to be able to travel to other habitable planets, so we'll go out when the planet can no longer sustain human life, if not sooner. We're ultimately as doomed as everything else. ('Course, I believe we should still make the most of what we do have.)

I do maintain that, whether or not humans are "superior", humans are merely the most advanced animal, as I stated way back on page 1. We run on the same biological processes that they do. We have DNA, we have cells, we have brains, we have pancreases, just like animals. Give it a million years and maybe chimpanzees or dolphins will be on par with us, at least mentally.

Look, we don't know everything about animals, but there are some things there can do and some things we can do, that others can't. There is no way you can dismiss the fact that we can't run 80 mph, that we can't fly, that we can't swim like any fish. What about those things?

I dunno. A mutation of HIV could be all it takes to do in the entire human species. All the accomplishments of humanity could be trumped by something that isn't even alive.

Not only can we do those things, but we can do ALL of them, AND better.

You see, a jaguar can do 80 miles per hour. But it cant swim deep. It cant fly.

A fish can swim, but it cant run 80 MPH. It cant fly.

A bird can fly. No 80 MPH. No swimming.

A human can go 80 MPH in a car with no problem. We can hop on a plane, helicopter, whatever. Our subs can reach depths that most fish cant. See where I'm going with this? The difference between humans and animals is that humans are insinctively progressive creatures.

And we are at the top of the food chain. Not by nature, but because we have worked for it.


But similar could just as easily happen to animals.

You're an idiot. I'm sorry, but you obviously didn't read my post.

THEY CAN DO THESE THINGS NATURALLY. We can't go underwater for long. We can't fly without refueling. We can't drive a car without charging, refueling, whatever.

We CAN do all of these things, but we're limited. We're like an all around species, and the others are extremely good, better than us, at what they are meant to do, NATURALLY. So it evens out.

Re-read my post.

Quite fankly, I dont care that they can do these things naturally.

The fact is, we can do them. We fly faster, drive faster, swim deeper. Technology is our thing. Humanity is just a better team.