>>6345
I considered not answering this because typically they typed word lacks itonement which can often lead to negative argument...so let me set the tone....I'm presenting my argument for the sake of discussion. I realize most people do not believe as I do, and frankly if the world was full of people that thought the same about everything, it would be a sad state of affairs in my opinion. No, I quite like the versatility in though/belief that humans share.
So, I am presenting my argument for the sake of friendly discussion (and as food for thought).

Have you asked an animal if they have a desire to reconstruct their world?
Often our perceptions of animals are proven wrong as we study them. After all, we have discovered language in whales, porpoises, dolphins, and elephants. We have discovered that these animals have dialects, culture and politics. Many animals even seek out highs through drug use (reindeer eat amanita for the high, dolphins instigate certain species of puffer to inflate because the spines contain a toxin that makes them high, etc).
The religions of the Abrahamic god are absolutely not the oldest and many concepts in the bible are predated by other religions (I have copies of primary sources for these lining my bookshelf, religion is a long-time hobby of mine). Furthermore, many religions outside of those that follow YHWH preach that to "ascend" or be "redeemed" you must abstain from the physical/animalistic urges that we are born with. Most Hindu and Buddhist teachings follow this same train of thought as do many other eastern religions.

But while we certainly have gone and done works that animals have yet to achieve to our level (which I attribute to our invention of writing which allowed us to record information for future generations to perfect and compound upon), we are still animals. We function like them. We are made of cells, we reproduce, we consume, we die. We are all born with a genetic makeup that comes with basic instincts and desires which religion (not just Judaeo/Christian/Islamic) tries to teach us is "evil" or "impure".
Indeed, what makes humans "better" than animals? Our ingenuity? I have experienced more love, compassion, and understanding from animals than I have from fellow humans.
Animals do not appear to kill each other because their fellow does not follow the same doctrines they do. (I say appear to...but perhaps some social animals do have belief systems? Not sure anyone's asked the dolphins yet).
God that sounds weird...I promise I'm not making shit up about learning certain mammals have language etc. I realize it sounds far fetched, but I work in biology so I learn a lot through my line of work.

Anyhow. I doubt you'll really care much, but I thought perhaps you would at lease find some of that interesting. (Or not, whatever)

We should probably get back to the original topic though...:/