Ben Long
Well-known member
I'm feeling cerebral today. So I'll pose a question, taken from Make Prayers to the Raven: True or false? Every animal knows way more than you do. Yes or no, and why you think that.
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No. Whether useful or not, we pack way more knowledge into our grey matter.
My first thought was that I agree with you.
Then I started trying to figure out how a duck or butterfly can migrate thousands of miles back and forth to an exact same spot. How a squirrel can hide hundreds of acorns and find almost all of them. How a salmon can roam the ocean and figure out how to get back to the same tiny tributary it was born in.
Our brains are pretty amazing, but there are a whole lot of things animals can do that we could only dream of being able to.
AristotleAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Can any other animal make beer? I think not!
They don't have to. They just wait till after the first frost and eat the mountain ash berries. Very intoxicating to the birds.
OK. Nice discussion, folks. Let me posit you this. If we were so smart, if someone plunked you naked with an empty pack in the northern Rockies, how long would you survive? Yet an elk calf is born naked in the same hillside and thrives almost automatically. How is that? Yeah, we can build an F-16 or space shuttle, which is cool, but can you smell a human being at a mile, or hear him whisper at a half mile? Can the best stalker among us take his boots off and sneak up on a bull elk and kill it with its teeth, cougar-style? They've been at it a lot longer than us. Even with our theology and our whiz-bang technology, I find that humbling.
"Knows" is only ones perception of a given reality, an ant on your sidewalk surely knows more about it than you.