HUMANS ARE UNIQUE !
THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE LECTURES OF “THE SCIENCE OF SELF” BY PROFESSOR LEE M. SILVER—— PRODUCED BY THE TEACHING COMPANY 2009
In the last lecture we saw how natural selection operates on humans beings as well as animals. And it does not operate as Charles Darwin thought it should operate.
An example is the fact that in sub-Africa about 5% of children are born with sickle-cell-anemia; a horrifying disease; if following Darwin’s concept of natural selection, this should be a trait that should be eliminated from the population [survival of the fittest], yet it is maintained at that level in that population.
Today we shall learn why that is maintained in a population.
Where do we focus natural selection, and what makes human beings different than animal beings.
The question is NOT EASY TO COME BY, IF YOU THINK OF IT HARD!
Most important what is UNIQUE about being a human being?
We have a unique immune system - a unique bone structure - BUT that’s NOT what makes us human beings, human.
Perhaps it’s our genes?
HUMAN-- TTGACCTATAAATGATCTTTATATTT
CHIMP— TTGACATATAAATGATCTTTATATCTT
We see differences in the chimp but differences that don’t seem to be the cause of being human beings.
“Snips” are different between human beings.
The difference between chimps and humans are 35 million “snips”— but those snips are just a change from a C to an A or T to a C.
There is about 5 million “copy” differences— two instead of one or vice versa.
At the DNA level we are these material differences.
DNA is static— so it’s hard, from static matter.
Were can grow in the laboratory cells that are a complete genome and nobody considers those to be a human being. In fact there are cells growing right now for 70 years, since the woman who provided those cells died.
So it’s not being genes, not being genes in something alive, that defines our humanity.
What about our appearance? Is that important? Well we don’t look like a chimp very much.
Appearance is superficial - not that important.
What about intelligence?
Clearly humans are much more intelligent than a chimp.
Intelligence alone is not the difference - computers can do intelligent things, so to speak. Many things way faster than humans.
What about morality?
There’s a lot of people who think that is unique to humans.
BUT what is morality?
It’s defined by different people in different ways; knowing right from wrong. The problem is not everyone agrees as to what is right and what is wrong. Some people fight and kill each other for what they think is right and wrong.
So there are large differences as to what people think is right and wrong, what is moral.
Some think humans are different from all else because of co-operation, helping etc.
But ants and bees and termites co-operate in their lives.
So NONE of this makes the difference between humans and all else.
LOVE— some say this is it, but no— any animals and birds show love and caring for each other.
BUT ANIMALS DO NOT HAVE THE CONSCIENCE-NESS AND AWARENESS WE HAVE!
Darwin was very confused about this, his theory of natural selection was based on the individual. There are some ants that are sterile. That would be terrible for Darwin, because you can’t have children— survival of the fittest.
There is the preying mantis— after she is fertilized she eats the male. You’d think the male would run off or not mate— survival of the fittest mind-set would have the male defend itself or run away.
Darwin did not understand this. It was in the 1960s that Bill Hamilton [1936-2000] came up with the selfish gene theory.
Basic— genes are forms of information.
Information is not realistic.
If you purchase online some music it comes as information, not literal as like a CD or a Record— it comes as information into your computer or smart-phone.
If genes are packets of information then we can see genes can operate amongst many individuals, not just one individual. If they have the same gene, the gene itself does not care if it is transmitted to other individuals.
[Well of course a gene for brown eyes could care less if it’s in many individuals— what on earth has that got to do with making humans different from animals - Keith Hunt]
So genes are selfish genes!
[You have to be joking, right, “selfish” genes— utter garbage - Keith Hunt]
So that does not mean it knows what it is doing, with conscience-ness.
[I guess not, genes do not think or talk to each other; genes and the DNA information is multitude upon multitude. I once had a student on guitar, and his dad was about 5 foot four and his mother about 5 foot. They also had another son who at age 16 was 6 foot 8 inches tall. Depends how the genes fall as we say - Keith Hunt]
The male preying mantis gets eaten by the female. Well he’s then putting his genes into the female….
[But the female has already got his genes by mating with him— the silly thought of atheistic PhD people. The lives of the mantis were designed by God to do what they do, just that simple.
The male mantis genes do not talk to themselves and say, “Well to get more of my genes into the female I’ll let her eat me.” The female genes do not talk to each other and say, “Well if I eat him, I can get even more of his genes.” With Darwin’s ideas the male mantis would fight back, the survival of the fittest—— but people have to do anything they can, like playing around with lego, to put God and creation out the window on the trash pile. And this PhD guy says Darwin was befuddled by it all; so are atheists.
What they do not tell you is that Darwin said he just let his mind wander, and never wanted people to go as far as they did with his book. He was reading his Bible in his latter years, and when young he was contemplating going in to be a minister, I presume in the Church of England - Keith Hunt]
We know now the human genome, and the chimp genome and there is little difference—— [Well another scientist says the differences there are make a HUGE difference; and he’s got lectures on Genetics for the Teaching Company, I have them - Keith Hunt]
SO HOW COME WE’VE DEVELOPED THIS EXTRAORDINARY BRAIN?
IT IS NOT THE GENES PER SE THAT IS CAUSING OUR BRAINS TO BE MORE SOPHISTICATED, IT IS THE GENES BEING REGULATED. CHANGING IN THE REGULATORY AREA NEXT TO THE GENES THAT CAUSE OUR BRAIN TO DEVELOP A LARGER CEREBRAL CORTEX……
I end his quotes.
IN THIS LECTURE HE SHOWS A PHOTO OF A HUMAN BRAIN, A CHIMP BRAIN, AND AN ELEPHANT BRAIN—— AND LOW AND BEHOLD THE ELEPHANT BRAIN IS LARGER THAN THE HUMAN BRAIN— NOW THINK ON THAT!
THE ATHEISTIC SCIENTISTS ONLY HAVE PHYSICAL THINGS TO GO ON, THEY HAVE WILLFULLY CAST THE ETERNAL GOD WHO CREATED ALL THE PHYSICAL, TO ONE SIDE. THEY HAVE TO SOMEHOW COME UP WITH A PHYSICAL REASON WHY HUMANS ARE WAY DIFFERENT THAN ANY ANIMAL, IN THE BRAIN AND HOW IT WORKS WITH SELF-CONSCIENCE-NESS, AWARENESS OF LIFE AND WHAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH THE HUMAN BRAIN.
AN ELEPHANT HAS A LARGE BRAIN, BUT AN ELEPHANT CAN NEVER INVENT AND BRING TO FRUITION WIKIPEDIA !!! OR BUILD AN SPACE-SHIP TO THE MOON, OR A SPACE-STATION CIRCLING THE EARTH, AND PUT MORE ELEPHANTS ON IT.
NOW I BRING TO YOU WHAT GOD’S WORD SAYS ON THE TRUTH OF WHY A HUMAN IS A HUMAN, AND HAS A BRAIN THAT CAN FUNCTION LIKE NO OTHER BRAIN ON EARTH.
The Spirit "in" Man?
We have one- given by God!
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by Keith Hunt |
We have proved to you on my Website, with many studies,t
hat mankind was created with no immortal soul. We have shown you
from the Bible that when a person dies they are dead all over,
they do NOT continue to live, they do not go to heaven or hell,
they are in the grave, they are asleep in death UNTIL the
resurrection day.
Yet the Bible does talk about "the spirit in man" - "But
there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty
gives them understanding" (Job 32:8).
Modern 21st century science can take the human brain and see
it, dissect it, investigate all its compartments, do tests of all
kinds to understand the human brain, how it works together, what
part does what. We can understand the complexity of the human
brain. We can understand the workings of any animal brain, any
creature in fact. Modern science was shocked to discover that the
human has only about 30 thousand genes, not much more that a fly.
We can discover, and have so discovered, the workings of DNA.
We now have the technology to discover the workings of DNA in
any creature. Yet with all the space-age science today, we still find
a HUGE GAP between humans and any other creature. To be sure
some creatures have great inborn abilities. The dolphin, the bat, the
money, the elephant, the horse, and we all know about the budgies
and parrots that can mimic our speech. But incredible as some
creatures are none of them, even given a billion years, can write
the Encyclopedia Britannica, or any of the famous large fiction
books or the movies that have been made from such books.
There is obviously something in man that sets him apart from
all other physical creatures.
And that something is "the spirit in man" as Job called it.
The Lord gives man a something that is invisible but gives
mankind the ability to "understand" as Job 32:8 tells us.
The apostle Paul also talked about this "spirit" that mankind
has and which enables him to understand the things of man,
a special understanding that no other creature has. "For what
man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which
is in him. Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the
Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:11).
It is the SAME Greek word here for both the spirit of man
and the Spirit of God. As the Spirit of God in the invisible mind
of God, so here the spirit of man is the invisible part of the
mind of man. The brain is the physical part but there must be
also an invisible spirit part of the brain to make the human mind
work as it does. It is something special added to the human
brain. Various animals have some kind of spirit also to help
function their brain, so the dolphin does what the dolphin does,
the dog does what the dog does, and there can be variations
within a "kind" - not all dogs are the same or can be trained the
same. So it is in the horse world that I am very familiar with,
being a horseman. Various breeds of horses have various
"intelligence" for certain skills that that breed can be taught.
But a horse still is a horse and thinks as a horse, a dolphin is
still a dolphin and thinks as a dolphin, and on it goes.
We know there is a spirit in man and also a spirit in
animals because we are told so in Ecclesiastes 3:21.
Then we are told that the spirit of man does go back to God
at death in Ecc.12:7, "Then shall the dust return to the earth as
it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
The word "spirit" in the Old Testament can have various
meanings within a context, and yes it can mean "breath" - wind,
air. When God made man of the dust of the ground He breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, which was simply the wind or
air. We need air mixed with blood to live, without air in our
body we would die as all humans know. But mankind is much
more than just flesh, bone, blood, and air. There is a spirit in man
that is not any of the former. It is an invisible something that
is given to unite with our brain and so both working together
give man "understanding" that is unique to mankind. Whatever
the spirit is that works with the animal kind it is not or does not
produce the same understanding as in human kind.
The Bible does not go into any detail about the nitty-gritty
of the "spirit" in man. It just states the fact for us, that there is a
spirit in man, and that spirit working with our brain gives us the
understanding of mankind, which is way above any other creature.
Mankind was created unique from all other physical life form.
You cannot have an intelligent conversation with any animal, bird,
or fish. Man has the ability to think and reason and "find out" the
matter of things WAY ABOVE, FAR ABOVE, any animal.
It is this "spirit" in man that allows him to do this
reasoning and thinking and researching and inventing.
We also know from physical life itself that the spirit in man
needs to have a normal brain to work and function in the
normal way God intended. If something happens to the brain,
an accident, a mal-function of some kind, the spirit does NOT
automatically take over. If from say an accident someone looses
the power to speak correctly, the spirit in man does not
automatically take over and produce correct speech. Now you
can think of MANY things along that line. If the brain becomes
injured the spirit in man does not take over and does not ignore
the malfunction of the physical brain.
It takes the normal function of the brain and the spirit in
man to have a normal functioning human being.
Your brain with the spirit in man that God gives is like the
working of the technical box of your DVD player/recorder. You
have the brains of the DVD player/recorder, but it is useless
without the DVD disc, and the DVD disc is useless without the
DVD player/recorder box of brains. BOTH are needed to function
as one unit.
The DVD disc is the spirit in man. On this spirit disc is
recorded your "character" - the YOU that makes you the YOU
who you are! God is able to blot out the errors, the sins, the
mistakes, the scratches, of your character through the added
eraser blood of Christ Jesus. Hence when all is said and done,
the end product of the DVD disc, the YOU, is a perfect holy
sinless disc. All of the in-depth way the Eternal makes you
sinless and holy is explained in studies like "Saved by Grace" -
"Real Repentance" - "Saving Faith." At the END of your life,
the Christian's physical body with the physical brain returns to
dust, BUT the DVD disc now fully perfect and sinless, your
"spirit" goes BACK to God who first gave it, as we have seen
in Ecclesiastes 12:7.
That perfect sinless spirit disc is preserved in heaven and
when the resurrection of the saints happens at the return of
Christ from heaven to this earth, that holy spirit disc is united
with a holy glorified spirit body, and YOU become YOU again,
but then you will be IMMORTAL, GLORIFIED, PERFECT
AND HOLY. YOU WILL TAKE ON THE FORM OF JESUS
CHRIST, AS WE ARE TOLD IN 1 JOHN 3:1-3.
WE ARE ALSO TOLD ALL ABOUT THIS RESURRECTION
BY THE APOSTLE PAUL IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15.
When does God actually give a human the "spirit in man"?
We are not told in the Bible the exact second that this takes place.
We are told enough for what matters today, that we indeed do have it.
Remember Deuteronomy 29:29. Some things are kept secret, we look
through a glass darkly at some things, as Paul once stated. It is
enough for us to know at present that we are DIFFERENT from
any creature on earth, and that we have a spirit in man that gives us
the understanding of man, what man can come to understand is
truly mind-bending, as far as the physical universe. The modern
space-age technology of mankind is amazing. It still blows me
away to think so much can be put on and into a "chip" of technology
that can be smaller than a postage stamp, nay as small as a pea
or smaller.
We have seen in Scripture that the spirit of the beast goes
to the ground, downward, while our spirit goes upward. It would
seem from this that there is no resurrection for animals. Not in
the way as for mankind. Is it possible that our loved animals
could be resurrected for us to enjoy for all eternity. Well of
course it is possible, nothing is impossible for the Lord, He
tells us that in His word. It is possible, yes, but we have not
been told in any specific way that it will be so.
Eternity will be heavenly, literally so to speak, and God
will want his children to be perfectly happy. God the Father
has many creatures in His world. Our planet and creatures
(except the seas - there are no seas or oceans in heaven) on it,
are a type of what God has. The Eternal loves color, creatures
great and small. He is not a God or drabness or lack of variety.
One day this earth is to be made new, and the heavenly Jerusalem
is to come down from God out of heaven to be on this earth.
Even our Father, God Almighty is going to come and dwell with
His children. It's all in the last chapters of the book of Revelation
and throughout other Scriptures of the Bible.
We are RECORDED! Wonderfully through Christ's blood we are
being made PERFECT! At our death or if alive when Jesus returns,
our spirit in man, our DVD disc will be spotless, scratch-less,
perfect and holy. We shall at the resurrection of the saints at
Christ's coming, have also a perfect holy body. Both our perfect
spirit disc and our perfect holy body will make us the VERY
CHILDREN OF GOD!
What an ETERNITY WAITS for the manifestation of the
SONS/DAUGHTERS of the Lord God!
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Written July 2008
NOTE:
Many studies on my Website prove to you the truth of the matter
on God's plan of salvation, death, resurrection, judgment,
rewards of the saints and of the wicked, and the wonderful age to
come.
Keith Hunt
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