RE: Attention Theists! Present your best argument for the existence of God!
December 28, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Stating that humans are animals is a statement of fact. It's been well researched, documented, and expounded upon for generations going back centuries since the dawn of evolutionary science.
The fact that you take this as somehow derogatory mystifies me given that saying that humans are animals is a statement and not an insult. Specifically, humans are primates, most closely related to the chimpanzee, who exhibits a vast multitude of humanlike behaviors and physical similarities despite being a completely different species that split off from a common ancestor millions of years ago.
The same science that determined this is the same science that gives us modern medicine given that the understanding of the genetic code is giving us very modern breakthroughs in cloning (organs and parts), stem cell research, and viral research (viruses often evade vaccines through genetic mutations - so keeping track of those is vital for vaccine development as well as HIV/AIDS resesarch.)
The fact that you take this as somehow derogatory mystifies me given that saying that humans are animals is a statement and not an insult. Specifically, humans are primates, most closely related to the chimpanzee, who exhibits a vast multitude of humanlike behaviors and physical similarities despite being a completely different species that split off from a common ancestor millions of years ago.
The same science that determined this is the same science that gives us modern medicine given that the understanding of the genetic code is giving us very modern breakthroughs in cloning (organs and parts), stem cell research, and viral research (viruses often evade vaccines through genetic mutations - so keeping track of those is vital for vaccine development as well as HIV/AIDS resesarch.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
