(December 2, 2013 at 6:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I can go even simpler than that - why are humans made of meat, bones, blood, arteries, skin, fur, squishy organs etc, just the same as other mammals? Why do we have an identical (for all intents and purposes) body plan to other mammals, especially apes and monkeys? Why, on that most fundamental level, are we indistinguishable from other mammals? What makes humans an exception (of course)? Our intelligence? Rats and squirrels are known to have exceptional intelligence and problem-solving skills. Our opposable thumbs, allowing tool use? Whoops, Guy the Gorilla says no. Our DNA? Some species of amoeba have as much as 200 times more DNA than we do; in fact, we only have one-twelfth the DNA of an onion.
What, exactly, makes humans so special that we could only have appeared by god magic?
I was going for simpler, wasn't I? Never mind.
Even more, if evolution does not occur, why do all placental mammals share the same endogenous retrovirus that has been implicated in the development of the placenta, yet other mammals, such as marsupials and monotremes, do not.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
