[fortheDeclaration]

I take it, then, that you buy the WJB assertion that humans are not mammals?

Once again, the evolutionist likes playing with words.

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

On the Changing Definition of the Term "Species" (#211) http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=338

[CarolinaGuitarman]

" just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish."

A whale is an animal. So is a fish. A whale is not a fish.

[Dimensio]

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal,

Humans not only have "mammal characteristics", they are mammals. All mammals are animals, therefore humans are mammals.

just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

This statement is incorrect for multiple reasons: Fish are animals, and whales are not fish.

[Gumlegs]

a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

Can you show us the gills on a whale?

By the way, you still haven't gotten around to telling us how many legs a locust has, whether a hare chews its cud, whether bats and birds are the same, and where the evidence for a world-wide flood is.

[jennyp]

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

DINGDINGDINGDING!!! Your Brain on Creationism candidate!

[VadeRetro]

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

Man has all the mammal characteristics, every one of them. So do whales. (OK, most whales lack hair. However, there are other naked mammals, especially aquatic ones.) A whale, like man, is a mammal and an animal.

You probably meant to say that a whale can have some fish characteristics but not be a fish. So it does. It has a streamlined body. But even stated correctly, all you have is a bad analogy. A whale lacks several salient characteristics of fish. No gills, no scales, no exothermy. Live birth rather than hatching from eggs. It suckles its young.

Now more than ever, we can tell what a thing is. Mammals are animals. Humans are mammals.

[furball4paws]

OMG LOLOL just ain't good enough.

Since WJB admitted (because he was consistent) on the stand that humans were not mammals, even the Scopes Crackers laughed themselves silly. And H.L. Mencken said he did while in the first row was a woman giving her infant some "titty".

After all those years, what's your excuse?

And I'd bet ol' WJB would never say a whale is a fish. I guess the Sunday cartoons are early this week.

OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (somebody call the paramedics, whimper, whimper, sniff, sniff......)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Ouch this hurts.

[Youngblood]

...just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

Just where, or from whom or what, did you learn biology?

[b_sharp]

"The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish."

I call 'Loki'

[King Prout]

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

Good LORD... did you post that in jest???

even IF cetaceans (whales, porpoises) were indeed fish instead of mammals... they'd STILL be animals (and chordates), rather than plants, fungi, monerans.

That said, *every* physical characteristic of cetaceans indicates they are mammals, not fish.

you might believe that the Linnean system is "playing with words", but it is interesting that his system is generally supported by modern genetics.

Kingdom - Phylum - Class - Order - Family - Genus - Species

If you are going to dispute them, at least do everyone (yourself included) the courtesy of knowing what they mean, and in what order they are ranked.

*shaking head in stunned amazement*

[Stultis]

The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

Four (or more, depending on how you count them) elementary errors in one sentence. Nice packing!

1. Man IS equivocally an animal. (Any biological organism that forms a blastula in its early embryological development is by definition an "animal".)
   
2. The whale IS an animal (and a mammal).
   
3. The whale is NOT a fish. All fish are non-mammals by definition.
   
4. Fish ARE animals (but not mammals).

[shuckmaster]

just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

OK, you can stop posting now, we understand fully exactly where you are coming from... lol!!!

[Liberal Classic]

Once again, the evolutionist likes playing with words. The fact is that man can have mammal characteristics but not be an animal, just like a Whale is not an animal, but a fish.

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>blink<
>rubs eyes<
>reads this again<