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Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought
palegray.net writes "According to a new article published in Scientific American, the nature of and evolutionary development of animal intelligence is significantly more complicated than many have assumed. In opposition to the widely held view that intelligence is largely linear in nature, in many cases intelligent traits have developed along independent paths. From the article: 'Over the past 30 years, however, research in comparative neuroanatomy clearly has shown that complex brains — and sophisticated cognition — have evolved from simpler brains multiple times independently in separate lineages ...'"
Genesis is a creation a story. There are literally, MILLIONS of creation stories in the collective human mythology. All creation stories, born from mythology, by their nature are ALLEGORICAL. To accept mythological texts, as anything but allegorical is quite dangerous.
Christianity = MYTH people.
And that is not in a derogatory sense (anymore then saying that the Hindu creation story is another myth). In other words, it's an attempt to explain that which cannot be explained but why is it necessary for it to be anything more than one attempt at explaining that which is out of scope of our experience.