Faid
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Quote (Flint @ April 26 2006,09:42) | Quote | But to my knowledge no one has ever observed a gorilla evolving the ability to speak French, German and English. I've never seen a female chimpanzee evolve to the point where a red-blooded, male college student would say "hubba-hubba" and ask one out on a date |
Buried in here is the ever-underlying presumption that evolution is the morphing of some existing organism into another existing organism. In this case, afdave is complaining that gorillas haven't evolved the human ability to speak, or that chimpanzees haven't evolved human sexual cues. But humans are NOT the "evolutionary model" which gorillas and chimps have so far failed to achieve.
Creationists have difficulty with more than the slow rate of evolution (few clearly new species have evolved since humans have even existed at all; that's MUCH too short a time to see any extensive biological change). They also seem unable to comprehend that all lifeforms that have ever existed (including all those existing today) are evolving into something never seen before, entirely novel. They NEVER evolve into one another. |
The reason for that is that creationists cannot escape their way of thinking, even when they "try". For them, Humans are the pinnacle of creation, sitting on the throne of life. We are perfect in structure and ability, made in the image of our, er, Designer, representing His ultimate and most priceless product. IF evolution were true, shouldn't all living things "aspire" to gain enough XPs to reach our level, so to speak?
Um, sorry about the lame RPG analogy, but I think it shows clearly how creationists must perceive the evolutionary process. In all their supposed humility, they are too arrogant to drop the notion that everything in life has rulers and servants, with themselves on the appropriate side. It's too deep inside their subconcious.
Pathetic, really.
-------------- A look into DAVE HAWKINS' sense of honesty:
"The truth is that ALL mutations REDUCE information"
"...mutations can add information to a genome. And remember, I have never said that this is not possible."
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