We are going to talk today about freedom, what it is, and why God’s idea of it is super superior. Freedom is a big issue for all of the inhabitants of planet earth, human, animal, vegetable, and mineral. At the University of Oklahoma, for many years, a project was underway to teach a fifteen-year-old female chimpanzee named Washoe to talk by combining sign language with simple recognition. This story intrigued me because two of my children attended the University of Oklahoma.
Since 1966, this chimpanzee learned 140 signs. Finally, the project directors decided that Washoe was prepared to “conceptualize.” This meant that instead of merely imitating some humans words, the chimp would express thoughts of her own. Now, understand, Washoe was a pampered animal in the university’s laboratory—well-fed, physically comfortable, safe from harm. She had security. And yet, when she was able to put words together on her own into a phrase, these were the first three—and she has repeated them repeatedly—”Let me out.” 1 Freedom is our focus today, why God’s idea of it is better than yours. All this on this week’s Light on Life.
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