Re: 1.23% part 2

On Dec 14, 7:28 pm, "\(M\)-adman" <g...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 Science claims that biological we are only 1.23% different from chimpanzees.
Mentally, intellectually, the gap may as well be the grand canyon if you ask me!

It was pointed out in another thread that chimps have been observed over a 19 day period to hunt
with spears. The chimp was targeting a tiny creature inside of a hole in a tree. So the chimp
broke off a twig from a near-by branch, chewed on the end, and stabed it's victim. Not exactly
crafting a spear like a humam, eh?

Yes, I pointed it out, and perhaps others did. At the time you had
simply said they didn't hunt with spears.Now it's "Not exactly
crafting a spear like a humam" Perhaps you mean *modern human. Early
human tools were rather simple.

But nobody here is arguing, or ever has argued, that chimps and
bonobos are as smart as a normal human. You claim that this is a
necessary consequence of evolutionary theory. Perhaps you can explain
why. Since evolutionary theory depends on the observation that
individuals in a genepool are different, perhaps you'd care to explain
why you think we are obligated to think otherwise.


But for the sake of argument, let us assume the chimp evolved 7 million years latter (after our
suposed common divergence) and can now make spears.

What?

All life on Earth has been evolving for billions of years.

You really do not have a clue what you are criticizing. You embarrass
me, Madman. I always feel a sort of sympathetic embarrassment when
someone makes a public fool of themselves :(


Ok, why does the chimp not make fire and cook his food since we share all but 1.23% of our
genes?

I have a cousin who is a redhead, while I am not. How can that be, if
we are so closely related? (We share 99.99% of our genes.) This is a
baffling mystery for Creationists, apparently.


Because we are not related to chimps. THATS why.  We never have been, and never were.

The chimps are smarter.

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Ummm... the fact that they are different species rather implies that
we are *different. Bottlenose dolphins and orcas are very closely
related - there's even a hybrid out there - but the orcas are black
and much bigger. How can that be, if they are related? Oh noes!!1! LOL

Oh, did you know that when the Tasmanians were invaded by Europeans,
they did not have fire? Most anthropologists suppose that they had
lost the art, and they had too small a population to have reinvented
the technique in the time they had lived there. Any ordinary person
can learn how to make fire, but it takes a genius to figure that stuff
out the first time. Perhaps you think they were a product of separate
creation?

Kermit

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