Listen if you put a monkey baby and a human baby together then the human baby will act like a? monkey but the monkey will never be or act like a human. So if we are on a higher evolutionary level then please tell me why the monkey will not act like a human?
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Citation seriously needed. And even if we were to grant you the truth and relevance of this utterly inane premise, the first part of your question seems to answer the second part. A monkey wouldn't be capable of acting like a human precisely because it isn't on the "higher evolutionary level" that humans are on...
Well, a human isn't really "higher" than a monkey since evolution is not a ladder. The two are simply adapted differently, according to what was best for their repective niches.
And we can teach monkeys and apes to "act like humans" to some degree, but of course a baby is not going to be able to do that. That's not evidence against evolutionary theory, that's evidence against babies being monkey teachers.
Is there some universe where this makes sense?
If so, remind me to stay as far away from that place as possible.
So if a Chihuahua and a Pointer are the same species, please explain why a Chihuahua will not hunt for me?
How stupid do you have to be to think this way? Different monkeys don't even act like each other.
"...but the monkey will never be or act like a human."
Well, there is that ape that can use sign language. I'd post a link to it, but you wouldn't want to actually learn anything.
So, if you put a fundie together with a donkey, then will the donkey begin to pray, and the fundie begin to bray?
"...the monkey will never be or act like a human."
You quite sure about that? Have you ever observed the behaviour of infant primates?
"So if we are on a higher evolutionary level..."
No such thing. Try educating yourself about what the ToE actually says, not what some brain-dead pastor told you.
"...then please tell me why the monkey will not act like a human?"
For the same reason an elephant doesn't act like a banana - it's not one.
we are on a higher evolutionary level
We arent, but it's easyer than trying to explain biology in under 20 pages
If this is true, then you have, in your own way, supported your own assumption as to how evolution works. It is easier to revert to more primitive ways than it is to take on more advanced ways. Therefore it is more likely, if the child is more advanced than the monkey, that the child take on characteristics of the monkey in the absence of human influence, while it would be nearly impossible for the monkey to take on human characteristics in the opposite situation.
Maybe Anton put his kid in with a monkey and Baby Anton started acting like the monk, instead of the other way around. In fact, I wonder if...when he went to remove the kid, could he tell the difference?
There's an old joke about a stupid putz putting his finger in a goldfish bowl and concentrating real hard to train the goldfish to do tricks. After a few minutes Dumbass gets all bug-eyed and starts popping his lips like the fish.
It's sort of easier to regress than evolve. You can always pretend to be more stupid than you are, it's harder to pretend that you are more intelligent.
Oh, and the monkey will act more like a human than monkeys growing up with only monkeys around. The human will not be able to grab with his toes, or climb as good as the monkey.
The original quote/question-
So if we are on a higher evolutionary level then please tell me why the monkey will not act like a human?
Hmmm, let's see- if we just change a few words, the argument will remain the same in reference to the complexity of software.
So if we are on a higher evolutionary level (like, for instance- a program like WarCraft) then please tell me why the monkey (in this case Pong) will not act like a human (WarCraft program)?
I wonder... HURR DURR!
As a point of fact, "monkeys" raised by humans tend to act more like humans than wild "monkeys". Heck! even dogs, cats, and other pets display many human behaviors. Guide dogs, in particular, exhibit far more reasoning and other human qualities than the average fundy.
Yet an experiment never done as
1) Exposing a human to a chimp in infancy is dangerous, they are stronger per pound and develop to physical skills faster.
I guess you have never seen any of those old slapstick shows where monkeys dress and act like people.
Sad, that movies from the 50's refute your argument.
I disagree, I think the baby is a lower life form.
after all, the monkey won't waste time pretending to be something it's not.
And he gave this idiotic answer after I told him in full detail why humans are apes (you know, we have a backbone, mammary glands, opposable thumbs...).
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Because it is a monkey. Why would it ever act like a human? Seriously, I get if you don't understand evolution, but at least learn the definition of the thing it is you don't understand. Your answer to life is "Magic! We're made of mud that magic made alive!" Our answer is everything had a common descent. You hold that the common descent is Adam and Eve, we hold that common descent is a bit more primal and a lot let....fantastical. I mean, really? You are mud? Do you feel like mud? Do you look like mud? No. Does mud go to the moon? Or cure polio? No, but then again, according to your fairy tales, neither do people. We do nothing. God does it all. Which sucks. Because he gets all the glory, and we get stiffed with the hard work and broken backs doing all the heavy lifting.
Funny, after prolonged contact with humans, Koko learned sign language, then began to use that knowledge to lie. I don't suppose you taught her that, did you?
“Listen if you put a monkey baby and a human baby together then the human baby will act like a? monkey but the monkey will never be or act like a human.”
“So if we are on a higher evolutionary level then please tell me why the monkey will not act like a human?”
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