Comments on: Creationists blather their way through Darwin Day

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:04:45 +0000

I’m not disparaging the human race by referring to humans as “animals.” We are incredibly interesting and wonderful animals (well, at least some of us). How are human animals different than other animals?

In his book called “Human,” Michael Gazzaniga sets out a list that includes the following (this is a quote from Ralph Adolphs review of Gazzaniga’s book in the 1-30-09 edition of Science): “Control over our thoughts, emotions, and actions; planning into the future; self-reflection and self-consciousness; language; aspects of imitation and social learning; episodic memory; imagination; creativity; cooperation and altruism; theory of mind; and many more.”

By: Mike Pulcinella

Mike Pulcinella — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:11:59 +0000

Christians often characterize atheists as “worshiping themselves”. To me, conservative Christians’ continuing refusal to acknowledge their own animal nature has always seemed like the ultimate self worship.

Quiz - What’s more like self worship?

1) The notion that we are no better or worse than any other creature that lives and dies and that the universe probably doesn’t care that much about us?

2) Or the idea that we are above all other living creatures, they exist for our benefit and that there is someone looking over us and insuring that each one of us will personally continue to exist forever after death?

If you ask me, the second scenario REEKS of egotism, egoism and egocentricity!

By: grumpypilgrim

grumpypilgrim — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:37:13 +0000

Not only can it be seen in our bodies, it can also be seen in our DNA. Apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes, humans have 23 pairs — the latter number arising because human chromosome number 2 consists of two chromosomes fused together. Were the fused human chromosome to be separated, the resulting human genome would be nearly identical to the bonobo.

By: Robert Madewell

Robert Madewell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:05:29 +0000

I recently attended a lecture by Tommy Mitchell (one of Ken Ham’s stooges). The funny thing that I remember about his talk is that he said that evolution can not be true, because that means that there was death before adam and eve ate the apple. I still don’t know what to make of that.

By: Planeten Paultje

Planeten Paultje — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:13:57 +0000

Yep! Humans are animals and we are smack in the middle of our own evolutionary processes