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@JustRickard I’ll do the same.

@JustRickard 1) I’m measuring cognitive capability according to archaeological data, art, tools, etc, not simply on brain size.

@JustRickard 2) I completely agree with point 2. There are definitely environmental factors to increased or decreased intelligent which I think adds to my point about our ancestors. I’ll modify my statement to say naturally intelligent rather than just generally intelligent.

@JustRickard 3) I’m not necessarily suggesting that it has to be Homo habilis, I just find it interesting that they are the first in the primate order, the hominid family, to be given the genus Homo. My hypothesis could be better suited with Homo heidelbergensis, for all I know.

@JustRickard 4) Order, or design, in the universe, for example, the laws of physics, mathematics, are not simply abstractions, or illusions, that seems to me to be intuitively false. I find that they require a designer and lawgiver.

@JustRickard I do believe that there was chaos before there was order, but that’s what I believe the story of Genesis to be about, rather than the creationist/literalist interpretation. I believe that it is the recount of God assigning function to the chaos of energy, matter, space, and time.

@JustRickard Have you watched @InspiringPhilos’s Genesis 1-11 series? I think he does a fantastic job in articulating the interpretation that I subscribe to, especially in the first video:

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@JustRickard 5) This is a fair point, however, I don’t find the universe to be pure chaos, this much seems fairly obvious to me. In fact, I find it to be extremely designed down to the finest detail, from the farthest reaches of space, to the other.

@JustRickard This is why we can confidently predict the heat death of the universe. In fact, this is why we can make predictions at all, because the universe is patterned, and we are programmed to recognize patterns. Animals do the same and I’m sure plants do too to an extent.

@JustRickard This is why I believe in the Catholic teaching on souls, in that humans have a rational soul, (the image of God,) animals have a sensitive soul, and plants have a vegetative soul.

catholic.com/magazine/onlin…

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