getting back to carico, i think the idea that humans are apes (in the context of just giving a name to something) was simply too offensive to her to get beyond.
I know how she feels, man. Gravity is the one that offends me. Always trying to bring me down and whatnot.
one could easily have said, "we'll put all the lizards and frogs, etc over here and call them Doodads and we'll put all the gorillas and humans over here and call them Dittybops," merely as a means of classifying different living creatures. certainly participants in this thread care enough to try to educate and she should learn about something before trying to refute it. how many christians have you honestly heard say, "well, they were just too stupid to learn the gospel, so we ridiculed them out of the room?"
I had a conversation with one creationist who as insisting humans aren't apes. I decided I would figure out at what point in biological classification he thought we diverged from the rest of the apes. I figured I'd start with kingdom and work my way to specifics: "Are we plant, animal, or fungus." I asked. He said "None of the above, we're humans."
So according to this one guy, our taxonomic nomenclature is:
Human, human, human, human, human, homo sapiens.
I thought it was funny.
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