>Regarding intelligence, natural or otherwise, this cartoon in the latest issue of the New Yorker sums it up pretty well.
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>Fig-leafed Eve and Adam are sitting in the garden and Eve says:
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>"Well, should we eat from the Tree of Knowledge and get kicked out, or sit around here and have nothing to talk about?"

Under danger of showing myself to have Neanderthal role attitudes, that is one of the really believable religuos and motivational models describing where all that jabber came from... Although I doubt that the estimated time killer for runing around at least half naked and in silence by me is in accordance with biblistic views ;-)