| Mr Nobody, other animals don't try to search for the TOE, that's the main thing that makes us different than other animals. I agree with you, we shouldn't consider ourselves as anything but animals, yet I also agree to the contrary. I know this seems inconsistent but I think you can have it both ways.
To answer your question about when we became divine, well there's no set point really, just a progression. Being able to invent the idea of God, whether it is a fictious or non-fictitious idea, makes us closer to him. As profet said, the very fact that we can think of what divine is makes us somewhat divine. We're actually not really fully divine yet, not until we uncover the TOE, then our closeness to god will be more than infinite! THen you'll definitely have to say that we are somewhat different than other animals!
Profet, it is true that what I said is said in the bible, but that doesn't mean I couldn't come to that conclusion independently. I took the part about God creating us in his image and just changed it to say that we believe God looks like us. As for us being closer to God, I didn't necessarily take it directly from the bible. God is the cause of our universe, I might have come up with that, but I'm not sure. It's too logical of a statement to lay claim to, can you really lay claim to a truth?  |