Trying to say that humans evolved from apes is like saying the Empire State Building just grew out of the ground. Evolution is a crack-up that Darwin just made up to get attention
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And the fact that Mr Darwin already had all the attention that any promising clergy student could want???
"Trying to say that humans evolved from apes is like saying the Empire State Building just grew out of the ground."The ToE simple claims that humans and apes evolved from common ancestors.
"Evolution is a crack-up that Darwin just made up to get attention"
Christianity is based on crap that Jesus just made up to get attention. Does that work for you, piano?
No. Saying humans evolved from apes is wrong, but close, since they both evolved from a common ancestor. Saying a building just grew out of the ground is crazy talk. So these statements have nothing in common.
...but the Empire State Building _did_ just grow out of the ground.
I can just see the scene out there at the Galapagos Islands:
Darwin didn't come up with the theory of evolution, dumbass. Lamarck did, decades earlier.
Darwin didn't INVENT the idea of evolution, the existence of which is an acknowledged fact. He helped to EXPLAIN it by his theory of natural selection.
As has already been pointed out, the Empire State Building lacks the key elements that make evolution possible: the ability to have its "blueprints" modified, and the ability to pass those modifications on to offspring. The analogy therefore fails - miserably, I might add.
Since only fundies make the claim that humans evolved from apes, I don't quite get the part about /DARWIN/ wanting the attention. Nor did he invent the idea of Evolution anyway.
No, it's like saying we tried and tried repeatedly over history until we had a design that could successfully support such a large structure as the Empire State Building. OH S***, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID!
Ape is very general term in the context of biology. Ape would include gorillas, people, chimpanzees, spider monkeys, etc.
“Evolution is a crack-up that Darwin just made up to get attention”
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