Santino is a fairly ordinary chimp. He likes to swing around and gibber, and he smells like a sweaty hog in a mire, but he also has a brilliant ability that puts him on par with, well, chimps. Santino, who is a 31 year old banana lover housed at Furuvik zoo in Sweden, likes to collect rocks so that when those gawking tourists come to bang on the glass and laugh at him he can throw them in self-defence against the appalling affronts of those pesky humans.
Rock throwing is a typical behaviour of apes, but the geniuses at the journal Current Biology noticed that Santino collects the rocks before the visitors arrive. They lauded this example of Einstein-level monkey brilliance with these words: "These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a complex way...It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including the lifelike mental simulations of potential events."
The other day I saw an equally brilliant human relative bury food, using his highly developed consciousness to simulate the potential event of him being hungry again. He chose a tree to climb with his own sentient will, and then used incredible skill to dig a hole and bury his carefully chosen selection of food item. My wallet was glad that I didn't have to travel to Africa to witness this, but down the local park, Mr. Nuts the squirrel was providing the type of quality scientific observation that professional scientists need thousands in grant money to achieve.
Another brilliant near-relative of humans, and undoubtedly one that branched off very recently from our evolutionary lineage due to its incredible skill, manages to do this: "The _____ of Africa build apartment-house nests, in which 100 to 300 pairs have separate flask-shaped chambers entered by tubes at the bottom." Imagine travelling to darkest East Africa and witnessing this human ancestor, in the 'cradle of humanity', utilising its incredible fore-planning abilities and highly developed consciousness to select just the right materials to construct elaborate nests by the hundreds, differing very little from each other - I mean a chimp can just about pile grass and sticks on the ground to sleep!
Oh, sorry, my field workers tell me that it was actually the work of weaver birds and not a bipedal ape on his way to conducting the London Philharmonic. You just have to see the Darwinist paradigm that blinds such researchers as Current Biology to the wonders of creation. God gave the weaver bird an ability to skilfully weave that no ape will ever attain to, and it doesn't need consciousness to do it - God put the intelligence and ability in there. An ape can collect rocks and wait for its human targets to turn up, God also injected that intelligence into its being, but a chimp is no more 'conscious' than any other animal that conducts relatively complex activities. Also no ape can make vocalisations anything like human speech, but parrots can.
There are too many questions to ask and points to make for one article, but suffice to say that evolution theory is a hindrance to science and objective observation. If its a chimp doing something a bit above the average level then its a sign of them being like us, but if a bird or a squirrel does something displaying intelligence no one cares. Just fits too much into believing in a a transcendent, intelligent creator who gave order and design to the universe and all of his creatures.
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