Your posts are quite amusing as they are so silly, keep them coming so I can have a giggle.
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Are you Greater than an Ape?
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Your posts are quite amusing as they are so silly, keep them coming so I can have a giggle.
A Vestigial Mote
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Well, there are plenty of other things they also don't consider - so that doesn't exactly make belief a special case, but I get where you are coming from.
This all leads to a question though of whether we are being foolish expecting "animals" to be more like us... or whether we should be expecting that we, ourselves, are more like the animals in the first place. Such that, our assigning of "belief" to ourselves as some monumental thing is merely just our advanced imagination and ego at work. An anomaly, in other words.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Yep, as it all linked together that ultimately involved many changes both physically and cognitively. I my intro to anthro course, I covered the changes one set of organs at a time and how they eventually have gotten played out.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Now you're bearing false witness. Whether or not you agree with evolution, the biological classification of humans means that they are apes, just like they're mammals.
A Vestigial Mote
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And I am telling you your thoughts are still in error. I don't WANT to be an ape - I AM an ape, by definition. So are you. It is simply arrogance or ignorance or both that cause you to deny it. And believe me - it isn't a good look for you.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
This is just idiotic. Once again you are showing no understanding of the people you are trying to argue with. BTW is having a religion good or bad?
SA Huguenot
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OK, I submit!
I Yield!
I give up!!
You are an Ape!!!
Happy?
dianaiad
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Trust me. I have several degrees in English, was a teacher of the same, and have a fairly large vocabulary. I'm "up to' having you define a couple of words.
dianaiad
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It is true that I am not a biblical inerrantist. I'm also of the opinion that Genesis has a LOT of metaphor in it, yes.
But the thing is, even if I were a literalist, I do not see where God told us anything about how He did things. THAT He did them? Yes. But...how?
Not so much,
A Vestigial Mote
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I will take this to mean that you are also submitting to this part of my post (which I am sure you are intelligent enough to have read and understood):
So thanks for that. I am going to assume you finally get it.A Vestigial Mote said:
Shouting assertions does not get you anywhere. You should try doing it with a mouth full of stones. It would make more sense.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Man as a species....Day Six
no names
no garden
no law
go forth, be fruitful, multiply
dominate all things
and Man did so
but we would have overrun the planet and it's resources
LONG before the spirit of Man could gel
so.....Chapter Two
a selected specimen
ideal living conditions
manipulation
anesthesia
surgery
cloning
a test to make sure the alteration took hold
release into the environment
Subduction Zone
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No, you are no more a descendant of Adam than you are of Askr. People are the product of evolution. That can be demonstrated. That is why you are an ape.
You may still be a "child of God", but that does not mean that there was an Adam. You are making the error of telling God how he had to make you when his own work (if he exists) tells a different story. But denying your God's creation you are in effect calling him a liar.
Subduction Zone
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Now you are breaking the Ninth Commandment. One that I am pretty sure that you do not understand.
Subduction Zone
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Reality scares you. It scares you so much that you have to call your God a liar.Why would you suggest I am afraid?
I find you are you terrified!
You are terrified in knowing the creator!
This is why you want to make Evolution your God.
From my side,
I agree with you.
being an Ape is a demonstrateble fact!
All you have to do to demonstrate such a claim, is too act like an Ape!
Stand on all fours and shout, I am an Ape!
and please, try to remember the Ninth Commandment. You should not assume others have your weaknesses.
sealchan
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He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
sealchan
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I think that reality is frightening for all of us. How we choose to handle that fear is another matter.
Bear Wild
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Not hilarious just real. Your parents may have been called Adam and Eve but if they were not human apes as opposed to chimpanzee apes or gorilla apes which all share about 98 similarity in DNA. If it makes yourself feel better that you are a child of god, then Chimps, gorillas and the rest of life are children of god. We all ultimately came from the same ancestor so we therefore ultimately the children of the same god, goddess or creative process like evolution - whatever makes you happy.
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