It's 2019 can we please stop the stupid?

[Brian37]

So? Still a huge difference between how laypeople name things and how scientists name and classify things.

I really don't like this trying to falsely equate the context here. How laypeople name things and how scientists name things are not the same context or "nomenclature".

But 'dolphin' isn't a scientific classification, either.  It's from 'delphis', a Greek word which means 'fish with a womb'.  See?  Even the ancient Greeks knew it was a fish. And of the eight groups commonly called 'dolphins', only one is actually in the group called 'delphinidae'.

(Wikipedia is my friend)


Boru

BINGO, thank you for proving my point.

Laypeople do not understand the difference between how a scientist uses a word and that muddies up the waters.

"Dolphin" does stem from that word, but when scientists use it, they are talking about mammals, not fish.

Dolphins are mammals who swim in water like fish, but they still do not have gills. They still have lungs. Swimming like a fish does not make it a fish. Whales are not fish either, but in antiquity everything that looked like a fish, gills or lungs everyone falsely thought they were fish. It wasn't until Darwin solidifying classification that distinction was made between mammals and fish. 

Remember that the next time you debate a theist arguing over Jonah an the Whale story. How many times have you heard some idiot falsely call the whale a fish? I have plenty of times in 18 years online.