THYME Magazine

Citizen Journalism with a Better Flavor


Volume II, Issue XXXII

Animal Intelligence, What Does it Mean?

The 'other' Weekly News Magazine [click to read] is hot off the presses telling us that new research shows that animals are pretty smart.

If you subscribe to the theory of Evolution that's good news to you. If you believe in the Divine being the author of life, it simply proves how majestic our Creator really is.

Writing today's THYME I find myself humming the old 'Flipper' theme. Rush Limbaugh is fond of saying: "Show me the great works of art wrought by Dolphins. Where are the Dolphin hospitals?"

Yes, Koko the Gorilla can learn sign language... but can she create a language?

At 384 words, Kanzi the Bonobo is pretty articulate, by primate standards. But the point remains that these apes were taught. Kanzi is no George Gist [1.] to the 'Bonobo Nation.'

There is something unique in the Human character... Imagio Dei.

1. George Gist created the written form of the Cherokee language.