The point to be noted here is that knowledge in itself
is
not a human distinction. It means to say
that all types of knowledge will not be counted
as
distinguishing
feature on humans’ part, because almost every
creature has a kind
of knowledge or the
other. So to be outstanding, human must possess
a knowledge not found elsewhere.
All of
the prevalent sciences in the world are not
specialty of humans, animals too share them. Therefore human cannot prove his superiority
on that account. If a man claims, ‘I am best as I know engineering
science and design
brilliant buildings’, his claim is not valid because animals too know it as they
make comfortable houses for
them. Weaver-bird (a small bird) makes
for himself a strange kind of nest having many rooms therein for all members of the family
and
even a cradle for nestlings to swing. The nest hangs down with tree but no stormy wind can shake it off. Is this
not a masterpiece
of
engineering? Then,
why
can a bird not claim to be an engineer? Definitely, it can. Thus, human is no way superior to
birds in this regard.
A bee makes a hive. Its octagonal holes are so equal that a man cannot maintain that level of precision even with a scale. It has separate sections to live and to store honey.
Rain causes no damage to hive and no storm can displace it.
Is it not a manifestation of engineering artifice? If yes, how a human can say engineering is exclusive to
him.
A snake makes its burrow which looks like
a dome with turrets upside and inside there
are clean grooves coiled
into each other in which
snakes and its
children keep
crawling. Is it not worthy
to be called an engineering
craftsmanship?
If you say, for argument’s sake, that your buildings are far beyond in beauty and brilliance as compared
to these nests and burrows, so how these
animals can be equal to humans. The answer is that the beauty
of a home lies in designing
it
according
to the resident’s needs and comfort. Humans take their comfort into account when
they build
a house and so
do the animals.
If an animal looked at your bungalow with envy, you could claim your
superiority. But unlike to that, the animals
disfavour your bungalows the same way
as
you dislike their burrow, as they would never be ready to live in your house. It makes clear that both humans and animals know the engineering
science in their own way. Thus claim of human
superiority on the basis
of engineering skill loses ground.
In
the same way, medical science is an experimental science.
As humans know it, animals too are aware somewhat of it as per their capacity. Again the claim of
being
best on the ground of medical science fails to prove
superiority, because animals too may claim that they know a
bit of it. The only
difference is that humans know much of it as they face more health problems in comparison to animals, and animals
know a little of it as they have less health issues. But only because of this difference, medical science cannot be human’s distinctive feature.
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