Are you saying that animals aren't intelligent? A definition of intelligence from Dictionary.com
1.capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. 2.manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit.
I don't think that it can be argued that animals other than humans do not have these qualities. We all know a dog can be taught, that lions know relationships between their family, that a bird can reason that it should not stay still near it's predators. As for the second definition, that might be something that is less widespread, but it is common knowledge that dolphins are highly intelligent, in that they have a high mental capacity.
I agree with skater kid that pwns. God gave us a soul so that we could live on this earth with sin and choices that we must choose to be accepted into heaven.
Hmm a sppecial gift probably knowlege we are the most knowlegeable species on the planet I mean we've discovered so much and know a ton of stuff about our planet
If it's not, i am going to go and rob a Popsicle shop and take all of there Popsicles.
Anyway, i have been thinking about responding to this for like two days now, but never really got around to it until now.
I think that the gift is we can communicate well and think. We are way smarter than "Animals" (when you think about it, we are technically animals to). Thats why we were able to create this world and invent everything, and rule the planet over other animals.
I am fairly certain that the gift was free will. Humans act on will and intuition and animals act on instinct and what they've been taught since they were born. Communication wasn't developed thoroughly until centuries after man's origins.
