[Fester Chugabrew]

Why do you claim it's direct? It's a pattern of reacted molecules on the surface of an epidermal layer. It hasn't gotten to a neuron yet.

You want to play smartass. I don't.

So a genome is not a record, it's direct observation?

There is a sense in which a genome is a record, but I've been using the words "record" and "recorded" to mean a written expression (in human lanuguage) denoting what has been observed with the eyes. So far there is no written record indicating that an ape was once confused for a human or vice versa. Only perhaps, in the records of Barnum and Bailey's Circus. In that case we should see how, or whether, science ever settled the case. I doubt was was a serious case of, "Gee, we cannot tell. Ape or Human?"

[Right Wing Professor]

You want to play smartass. I don't.

I wanted to play intelligent debate. You don't have the wherewithal.

Nothing I said was in the least smartass.