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Why is God at war with it's creation?

Humans were around for many millennia before we taught ourselves to write and read, in that order. And yes, that's right: taught ourselves. There's no evidence of any "gods" being involved in the process. Written language has evolved from simple tallies, through pictograms, to syllabics and finally (so far) to the alphabetic systems we now use (YMMV in, for example, East Asia). All traceable through the historic record, and all free of the influence of "gods".

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what the reason gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos unable to read, write, speak?

Because there was no evolutionary advantage for their ancestors to develop the traits and mechanisms that would enable them to read and write. Developing over the last few million years in a different environment than that in which humans developed, they developed different traits which helped them flourish in that different environment.

You might as well ask why Bactrian camels evolved with two humps while dromedaries have to make do with only one. Was it because some "god" decided it would be fun to have two different sorts of camels? No, it was because the one adapted to circumstances where two humps were beneficial, while the other flourished better where it was with just one. Likewise with the apes - gorillas, chimpanzees et al developed the intelligence that was necessary and beneficial to the propagation and survival of their species. Humans did likewise, but with that intelligence we may have sacrificed the agility which our chimpanzee cousins have, or the great strength of our gorilla relatives.What was beneficial to us, in our environment, was redundant to them.

Of course, I don't expect you to absorb a single word of this, and I look forward to your next inane question, put forward in such a way as to prolong the discussion by seemingly staying on-topic, while simultaneously studiously avoiding any serious consideration of the points made which would destroy your worldview if you ever really thought about them. Next!
 
what the reason gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos unable to read, write, speak?



You might as well ask why Bactrian camels evolved with two humps while dromedaries have to make do with only one. Was it because some "god" decided it would be fun to have two different sorts of camels? No, it was because the one adapted to circumstances where two humps were beneficial, while the other flourished better where it was with just one.
so human is the ONLY specie who NEEDED to learn language, to speak, to write, to read for to SURVIVED ?

why cant we survive like other apes without learning language?
 
You might as well ask why Bactrian camels evolved with two humps while dromedaries have to make do with only one. Was it because some "god" decided it would be fun to have two different sorts of camels? No, it was because the one adapted to circumstances where two humps were beneficial, while the other flourished better where it was with just one.
so human is the ONLY specie who NEEDED to learn language, to speak, to write, to read for to SURVIVED ?

why cant we survive like other apes without learning language?

We have. Our primate ancestors survived just find without reading or writing. Most of human history and pre-history, all/most humans were illiterate.
 
You might as well ask why Bactrian camels evolved with two humps while dromedaries have to make do with only one. Was it because some "god" decided it would be fun to have two different sorts of camels? No, it was because the one adapted to circumstances where two humps were beneficial, while the other flourished better where it was with just one.
so human is the ONLY specie who NEEDED to learn language, to speak, to write, to read for to SURVIVED ?

why cant we survive like other apes without learning language?

Where did I say they NEEDED to? (hint: I didn't)
 
Simple question Syed, "Do you look more like a chimp or a dog?"

Now go through every animal on the planet, which ones do you share common traits with?...eg: two arms, two legs, warm blooded, facial features, etc.

You have to agree, we share more in common with the apes and monkeys.

Do you know why?
 
Humans use language to communicate but that is not the only means we use nor is it the only means possible. As the old adage goes, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." This is never demonstrated to be more true than in the lay study of evolutionary theory. Many insect species use chemicals to communicate. Dogs (and many other mammalian species) communicate with fairly sophisticated body language. Humans may be able to accomplish a lot of things using our abstract communications skills but it was only recently that we learned to use echolocation, which bats have been using for hundreds of thousands of years.

For hundreds of thousands of years ants have been able to communicate with each other and coordinate attacks on prey. Humans weren't able to understand that language or learn it, but we could certainly observe it in action. Birds silently communicate sophisticated information about speed and direction change such that hundreds of them in a flock can simultaneously start flying in a different direction instantly. Schools of fish do the same sort of thing.

Our communication capabilities are different from those that developed in other species on this planet. Doesn't mean they're better, or even as effective. They serve us well, but the techniques used by other life forms serve them well. Perhaps we can't teach a chimpanzee to talk like a human. But a chimpanzee can't teach us how to dart effortlessly in the tops of trees and a fish can't teach us how to understand the "change direction" signal they use. And a cheetah can't teach us how to run at 60 miles per hour.
 
so human is the ONLY specie who NEEDED to learn language, to speak, to write, to read for to SURVIVED ?

why cant we survive like other apes without learning language?

Where did I say they NEEDED to? (hint: I didn't)

if we dont NEED language , writing, reading, speaking skills then evolution makes no sense

why do we learn something we dont NEEDED to survive ?
 
Simple question Syed, "Do you look more like a chimp or a dog?"

Now go through every animal on the planet, which ones do you share common traits with?...eg: two arms, two legs, warm blooded, facial features, etc.

You have to agree, we share more in common with the apes and monkeys.

Do you know why?

tell me do tree evolve from other tree?

what the reason tree evolved?
 
if we dont NEED language , writing, reading, speaking skills then evolution makes no sense
No, it's your piddle-poor understanding of evolution that makes zip sense.
why do we learn something we dont NEEDED to survive ?
It was one of several options.
Some species learn cooperation, some learn to live solo.
Some species have zillions of kids and some have smaller litters with longer childhoods.
Some see color, some see different parts of the spectrum.

There's no standard anywhere of a list of things a species NEEDS to do to survive. Just a long, long laundry list of things they HAVE done to survive.

Like, you don't NEED to learn to change a tire in order to learn to drive a car, do you? You also don't NEED to learn how to adjust a timing belt to drive a car.
Some do, some don't, some will take money to do it for you.
 
so human is the ONLY specie who NEEDED to learn language, to speak, to write, to read for to SURVIVED ?

why cant we survive like other apes without learning language?

We have. Our primate ancestors survived just find without reading or writing. Most of human history and pre-history, all/most humans were illiterate.
so we needed to evolved to read and write?
 
We have. Our primate ancestors survived just find without reading or writing. Most of human history and pre-history, all/most humans were illiterate.
so we needed to evolved to read and write?


No, we invented written language, but we had the ability long before then. If you had a time machine, you could go back to the Neolithic Age, pluck some hunter-gatherer kid off the plains of Africa, bring 'em here to modern times and they'd be able to learn reading and writing just fine.
 
so why we evolved to read and write? you just making up things

Humans evolved communication skills and an ability to invent technology as needed. Writing is such an invented technology. It started with keeping records. Guy scratches some signs on a turtle shell in neolithic times. People in more complex societies marking what grains are stored in the big clay vessels. And so on. It enabled people to talk over distances and to not have to memorize everything. We invent technologies to make things easier. That's why humans invented writing.

Where is this "why we evolved to" stuff supposed to be going anyway?
 
No. Not 'needed.'

so why we evolved to read and write? you just making up things
No, I'm criticizing your loaded questioning.
Not sure that there's a 'why' answer to this question.
We did evolve and we did evolve the capacity to associate symbols with meaning, and we did develop means of communication to use that ability. Why? Not really a science question.
How? Trial and error. Just like everything else.
 
No, we invented written language, but we had the ability long before then.

why didn't other apes invent writing. reading language?

Other primates have developed means of communication that suit their needs. What we perceive to be a smile is (in their language) a display of aggression.

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how can we have ability to write, read before we invented ?

People who lived 5000 years ago had the mental capacity ("ability") to develop digital electronics, satellites, television and smart phones. But these things were only developed in the last 100 years. Why you're having such a hard time understanding that writing is a technology our ancestors developed is beyond me.
 
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