[Thatcherite]

I do have preconceived ideas. My idea is that I am human and I can recognize other humans.

I thought about this some more.

Imagine that "The Designer" makes specially for you 10,000 creatures standing in a line, and that those creatures form a sequence from ape to human, each changing by 1/10,000 of the difference between ape and human. Presumably you wouldn't just say that only the very last creature in the line was human? Now, you say you can recognise "other humans". Do you think that you would be able to confidently point at one particular creature in that sequence and say "that is the first human", and "The one to its left is the last ape". If someone disagreed with you about where the dividing line lay on what basis would you argue with them?

[mlc9852]

I am not the one arguing over what makes humans human. To believe at one point there was something not quite human but not quite something else is just the evos way of saying that they haven't figured out how to differentiate between human and animal. Surely there was a point when DNA was established as belonging to a human. And why would I think I was scoring any kind of points? With whom? I think most people believe they are human - but not all.

[js1138]

You might think that you can find a point where humans and apes diverge, but that's not how evolution works. It would be like enlarging a spectrum to find where one color ends and another begins. Of course you need your computer display set to truecolor to see this effect.

[js1138]

I suppose I posted to the wrong person. Oh Well...