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