Posted on 02/18/2007 11:40:54 PM PST by LibWhacker
Riiiiiiiight....you can call yourself an ape all day long.....doesn't make it so, I guess you can't handle "HUMAN"????
I was wondering when the Helen Thomas jokes would start. My mistake was searching for the words "Helen Thomas."
LOL! I thought it looked like Helen Thomas, too!
Takes all kinds.
OK...you're an ape if that makes you feel good.
We are apes. The new world has native monkeys, but no native apes, which probably means we originated somewhere in the old world where the rest of the native ape species are found.
Well said. Apes and Humans are different, That is why there is a missing link. Because the link doesn't exist. Apes are apes. Humans were created in the image of god.
>>Riiiiiiiight....you can call yourself an ape all day long.....doesn't make it so, I guess you can't handle "HUMAN"????<<
Its a way to classify species - its not a moral judgment. As I mentioned above, even to our closest match DNA wise - the Chimpanzee there are still 40 million DNA differences - that's enough to be in the same family but we're in a different genus and then a different species and subspecies.
You can spin that different ways depending on your outlook.
.....They had to call it a "missing link" to promote Darwinism......
They use the term because it is all they know to call it, and like style books that confuse cement with concrete, the use of missing link is mandatory.
I really don't care what I am classified as....I KNOW what I am.....a child of GOD, made in his image and likeness.
How about? We found a new skelton. It's hominid. It doesn't match anything else we've found so far but it closely resmebles ______. We're investigating it further to see where it would best fit in the classification system.
If the genetics of living organisms were wildly different, no doubt that would be used as evidence against creation/ID also, with the reaoning that *If the designer were so intelligent, why would he make things so different? It's not efficient. It doesn't make sense.*
Heads I win, tails you lose.
"Some of the "missing links" may never be known - nobody saw you - maybe you were alone. "
Yeah, that's the point. You don't really know if two fossils are related without all of the links in between.
How do you know two things are related if there are huge gaps in between? The answer is that you can't know for certain, but we are told by archaeologists all the time that one animal is descended from another -- without sufficient evidence.
It's all based on assumptions and suppositions. Apparently as long as I can imagine something a certain way that's all the data that's needed.
If our ancestors were apes, why are apes still around?
There never was a genetic link between Humans and apes. The DNA research shows no resemblance what so ever.
Therefore;
Humans are humans.
Apes are still apes. That's the difference.
The classic argument of the epistemophobic.
Perhaps its the lighting, but the eye sockets don't seem to match. Must be interesting to deal with these ultimate 3D puzzles.
It pretty much does. The word 'ape' is just a sign or a symbol. It has whatever meaning we assign it. Right now, the scientific consensus is that the word 'ape' means 'the hominoids,' which includes humans. It has nothing to do with gods, morality, or metaphysics -- it's just a word used to describe several species.
If you want, you can dismiss that definition as scientific jargon unsuitable for vulgar conversation. But I think it is very suitable for this thread.
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