Racial Evolution 101.1

I see where you are quoting, I'd guess out of context, where we cannot draw a single path back through the ancestors we have. But I do not see anything about this leading scientists to abandon the use of these fossils. I do not even see any evidence that this is a problem.

 

Beacause there are 5 different genera of apes. The ape characteristics are back at the family level. When you include the primate characteristics, you are back at the level of order. But, there has been talk of moving the chimps to the same order as humans, but I do not think it really matters.

The point, which you did not deny, is that you fulfill all of the physical requirements to be called an ape. Therefore you ARE an ape. No shell game is required.

 

No insult intended.

The literalist often insist that we are made in the physical image of God as a reason that we cannot have evolved. I don't believe God is an ape. But we are. Therefore the literal meaning is not what is intended. Instead, we are given a soul, which makes us in the image of God and differentiates us from the apes.

Once you get someone started down the road of saying we are not apes you can sometimes either get them in the laughable postion that we are not even alive or the equally laughable that we are not apes but that we are, take your pick for where they draw the line, mammals, animals, etc.

 

That does not make any sense. So foxes are not canines because they are in a different genus than wolves. Well, for that matter, neither are all wolves grouped into Canis. There are ten genera in Canidae but we still call them all canines.

The grouping of apes is done at the family level, not the genus level. It does not matter that we are in different genera. We are just as much ape as a chimp or gorilla. How can you accept that we are mammals and primates without tacking on the extra couple of characterists that also make you an ape?

You are right about one think. I am not a Neanderthal. That was a separate species.

 

Jcrawford: Just as humans can be mammals and humans at the same time, and can be chordates and humans at the same time, so can we be apes and humans at the same time.