Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Tool Maker

January 26, 2010

ScienceDaily—A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild.

Academia defines the human being as tool maker, proposing the difference between the human being and the animal rests in our innovative ways of dealing with our environment. Perhaps it is not the animal learning from the human being, but the human who is learning from the animal.

According to the Torah/Teaching the human being differs from the animal in our ability to articulate ideas into spoken language; this unique ability is the crux of our technological advances, but it is not the reason. Purposeless progress is not the point of creation

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor likens God feeding the newborn ravens with flies who feed on their waste, since ravens have a cruel nature and leave their young, to God showing compassion for the children of cruel parents.

The Cabala teaches the animal like the angels are directly connected to God while the human being is the furthest from God thus freedom of choice. It is the human being who needs the animal and not the other way around.

Tools are a matter of rote learning whereas speaking indicates thinking in ideas.

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