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> Great. God doesn't exist because I can't think beyond the fringes of
> what I already know, and therefore nothing I do not know can be real.
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> Even Science doesn't think like that.
Scientists in the olden days did, but then the Church made people believe their guesses to be fact, such as the Earth is the centre of the universe and the Earth is flat/ square. Even when Galileo asked them to look through a telescope and they saw that they were wrong, they still refused to believe what they had seen.
Even today many scientists who find conflicting data on any major scientific idealogy find themselves hard pushed to convince anyone to air their views in case research grants are pulled or funding is stopped.
Also, what if some people evolve upwards and some revert - then we'll have a Beastmaster type scenario with a serious bout of symbiosis. Dibs on keeping the Feral-Snuggly in a sack and throwing him at muscly-men in leather should/when they they attack me. Also, I'll see through Panther-Goatboy's eyes to see what he *really* gets up to at weekends.
> But you're assuming that everyone plays by our rules/morals/ideas.
> Why can't an alien race have no concept of war? What if they invented
> space travel first because they weren't spending time inventing
> weapons? On this planet we tend to create new technology from wars,
> but there are many other factors that push technical limitations.
Well it would be assumed that living things are competing against one another yes? I belive this would have to be universal since all creatures need to survive. Thus our weapons of war are just the result of a natural trait that is to kill or be killed. Therefore any intelligent species would probably be aggressive like us by default since they would have spent millions of years like us as prey until they had the brains to make weapons.
I suppose if such creatures evolved on an isolated island with alomost no predators for millions of years they may have evoloved to be more peaceful or even more co-operative. Though this whole argument only applies if you belive in evolution in the first place.
Hmm...
I figure that if dolphins had a few more m/billion years to evolve, they could do so peacefully.
Could be wrong though.