john crawford
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What do you mean, "instead?" That's exactly what I propose.Caphi said:Instead, why not start with the most general properties and work your way down to the specifics?
Not at all. It makes no more sense to start with eukaryotic cells than with human beings who are in the unique postition of having the intelligence to identify and categorize bacterial cells in the first place. After all, phylogenetic trees aren't commonly designed and created by various forms of bacteria any more than they are by non-human species of Anthropoid apes in Africa.For instance, a eukaryote which has cellulose cell walls can be a plant, while a eukaryote with no such cell walls will be either a fungus or an animal, depending on whether it reproduces by spore or not. Under animals, we can divide them into further phyla based on whether they have gills and bones, gills and cartilage, scaly skin and exotherm, etc. Under the ones which possess, say, a backbone, fur and a placenta, we can pick out the ones which have similar body features like a long snout and so on. A certain set of such animals will be red, have large, pointed ears and a long bushy tail. And that's how we get from kingdom Animalia to Vulpes vulpes, the common red fox.
Makes much more sense than using the Bible as the basis for division of species, yes?
By establishing a special taxonomic classification for clever and wise Homo sapiens like yourself, Caphi, everyone in the world could see that biological taxonomies and phylogenies like those which Darwinist racial theorists commonly design and create are only anthropocentrically premised and oriented.
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