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Radio commentator Paul Harvey tells of an experiment involving a chimpanzee to which scientists were determined to teach written communication. For 14 years, researchers labored with the animal, providing materials in its cage which would enable it to write out certain syllables. Finally the day arrived when it seemed that the chimp would actually be able to construct a sentence out of the phonetic symbols it had been learning. Word went out, and dozens of scientists anxiously crowded into the room and gathered around the cage.
As all watched breathlessly, the chimp began to form symbols into words, and finally words into a sentence. The message completed, the scientists pressed around the cage to read the historic sentence.
It read: "Let me out!"
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… which just reminds us that, no matter how sophisticated we creatures get, we are still ultimately driven by a small set of basic instincts.
According to Scripture, one of those 'basic instincts' is sinfulness. No matter how sophisticated we get in terms of intelligence, technology, society, or piety, let us not forget that we are, at the core, creatures who have 'fallen short' (Romans 3:23) and who are therefore in need of God's grace to set us free from the cage of sin.
Source: Paul Harvey News
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