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To: Coyoteman
I just want to know how scientists distinguish between human and non-human. I thought it would be simple.
408 posted on 10/24/2005 12:54:28 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
I just want to know how scientists distinguish between human and non-human. I thought it would be simple

You remember the bar shading from black to white. I want you to tell me at what exact point along its length the bar turns white. "I thought it would be simple."

The difficulty of answering such questions is a prediction of the theory of evolution. Speciation is a continuum, not a break. Remember, every creature is only minutely distinguishable from its parents. Creationists on the other hand think that it should be easy to distinguish non-human fossil hominids from human fossil hominids, yet all the different creationist sources disagree on the major fossil hominid finds.

409 posted on 10/24/2005 1:15:27 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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