Anyone who thinks animals don't have faith has never owned a dog.  Or seen
someone else with a dog.  You want faith?  Watch an abused animal shower
love on his/ her owner.  Total confidence based on no evidence, which as far
as I can tell is a pretty standard definition of faith.
By the way, I don't mean this as an insult to people of faith. :)


On 5/15/08, steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> william wrote:
>
>> Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Re technology:- People have been trying for ages to find out the one
>>> unique innate quality or cultural behaviour  that separates humans from all
>>> other animals, and have  failed time and again,  as it was found that things
>>> like laughter and tool-use etc. are present in other species too. Crows are
>>> well-
>>> known to frequently  use tools:-
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3qhuz
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How about lying?
>>
> Nature is full of deception.
>
>> Or, maybe better (or worse), how about faith?
>>
> Like buffalo or sheep running off cliffs to their death?
>
> Or do you mean the propensity for some humans to anthropomorphise?
>
> It seems to me that "faith" is just a more elaborate form of deception
> (even self deception), hijacked by the "priestly" types to extract goods and
> services from others deceptively.  Faith is just the ability to continue to
> function in the face of an uncertain future.  Animals act on faith when they
> migrate.
>
>> William
>>
> Steve
>
>


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