| Posted: 22 May 2018 at 9:35am | IP Logged | 2
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This makes me recall INHERIT THE WIND:
We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing!
Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one thing that sets above the other animals?..... What other merit have we?.... The elephant is larger, the horse stronger and swifter,.... the butterfly more beautiful, ....the mosquito more prolific, .....even the sponge is more durable...... Or does a sponge think?
I don't know. I'm a man, not a sponge!
Do you think a sponge thinks?
If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks!
Does a man have the same privilege as a sponge?
Of course!
Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!
While today we understand much better that the capacity for thought is hardly as exclusive to humans as we've told ourselves for thousands of years, it's still harrowing to consider how rarely, as a species, we've used that privilege as caretakers rather than tyrants.
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