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To me, I think it's not really a strawman. But I am not perfect.. Also, I think you know what you just posted is a strawman of the theory.
"I can walk like an ape, talk like an ape, I can do what monkey do"
Though not completely accurate, the genius of it is that it basically sums up how we categorize animals. I walk like an ape, I look like an ape, I can do what other apes can do so I must be an ape.
It's just a thing we made up to categorize things. It can't be falsified.
Yet evolutionists claim that basically every single scientific discovery proves our somewhat arbitrary and self made categories demonstrate the actual origins of species.
Evolution doesn't have anything to do with origins, at least nothing essential anyway. Also, I think you know what you just posted is a strawman of the theory. There are many people here who know far more about this than I, but I'm pretty sure I'm right in calling that a strawman. The theory of evolution describes and accounts for the diversity of life on this planet, not the origins of it.
That's a great point!Then you would necessarily understand that the theory of evolution (however you would present it) doesn't attempt to account for origins, that's a different theory, commonly referred to as abiogenesis.
That's a great point!
Not really. "Ape" is just a manmade way of classification. I don't see how this "tells" us anything. We can classify cars and firearms ect, but we dont learn anything about cars by classifying them. It doesnt "tell us" anything. It's just something we do.Genetics also tells us we are apes.
Not really. "Ape" is just a manmade way of classification. I don't see how this "tells" us anything. We can classify cars and firearms ect, but we dont learn anything about cars by classifying them. It doesnt "tell us" anything. It's just something we do.
Good answer.I agree that evolution does not classify beyond the species level except in several cases (cross-pollination; fertile hybrids; and genome jumping fungus and the like). It is indeed humans that classify life forms found in a vast biosphere. Yet clades do offer benchmarks that place populations in specific and demonstrable (and therefore helpful) genomic lineages. This means that scientists are able to make predictions about the behavior of one species by learning about species in its nearest clade. The fact that humans are apes is obvious regardless of metric; this is why it helps to understand human behavior by studying the behavior of the other apes--- and vise versa. If another species of apes were toi be discovered this evening we can know before-hand what many of its behaviors will be, just my knowing human behavior.
It means that classification is not arbitrary, even though the biosphere is a huge spectrum.