Do you know chimpanzees are still having babies? Why don't they make another human?
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Because if a chimpanzee did give birth to a baby with human-level intelligence, it would be another branch of the family. It would not be human, it would be something else.
But it would still be pretty damn closely related to us...
Didn't you know? A chimp gave birth to a baby the other day at the San Diego zoo! And this morning, my cat turned into an Eagle!
This didn't happen, obviously. Why?
EVOLUTION DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!
It is still happening. We're becoming more resilient to disease. We're getting taller. Drug resistant bacteria. Just to name a few. Sheesh.
"Do you know chimpanzees are still having babies?
Yes I did Kent. I appreciate your concern, but I assure you it isn't necessary.
Why don't they make another human?"
Because, as you should know, A) We didn't come from modern chimps, we just share a common ancestor and B) Evolution depends on random mutation, which means that even if it took place one way once there is no reason it should take place in the same way at another time.
Well, they did make Kent Hovind. Oh, wait a minute, he was the product of a jackal and an ass. Sorry.
God is a baby chimp now? Oh my!
Doesn't baby chimp have to destroy the Earth with a flood again before he makes more humans, even if it does involve breaking a "promise"?
There should be a seperate Kent Hovind Say The Darndest Things, KHSTDT...
This guy makes up shit faster than we can submit it..
Christ, Hovind just gets dumber and dumber. I mean what the fuck, I thought he was supposed to be some sort of educated (well, in evolution and space) Christian who could "refute" evolution and the big bang using concepts that are complicated to the everyday man.
Then he says this.
Does Hovind believe his own shit?
No, IMHO. He may sincerely believe in God the creator, I wouldn't know, but this kind of stuff is deliberately crafted to press the fundies' hot buttons. He's never convinced any sort of sceptic about anything, but he doesn't care: he's preaching to the choir, and, more to the point, selling them LOTS of DVDs. He knows his target audience, and he knows they're thicker than pigshit. So he tailors his spiel accordingly.
yes I did know that, and I could explain the second, but you're to stupid to get it, (plus you'd never read it anyway) so it's a waste of time.
I heard about a couple of chimps who had a human baby a few years ago at the San Diego zoo, but they were too retarded to raise him, so the baby was taken away to grow up as a normal member of society. Unfortunately, he failed to keep up with his schoolwork, and eventually his taxes and wound up in the slams with a bunch of other knuckle draggers. I can't rememmber his name . . .
If we define "human" as "able to have offspring with other homo sapiens", then the answer is of course Evolution Does Not Work That Way.
(although I suppose that just the right set of mutations could accumulate over time, but that is thermodynamically unlikely.)
If we define "human" as "an intelligent person deserving those legal rights and protections normally accorded to members of the species homo sapiens", then there is a different answer. Jane Goodall would say that the chimps and bonobos and gorillas _already are_ human in this sense of the word. Certainly Kanzi the bonobo is close enough to human to be able to play PacMan.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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