Are we humans simply remodelled apes? Chimps with a tweak? Is the difference between our genomes so minuscule it justifies the argument that our cognition and behaviour must also differ from chimps by barely a whisker? If “chimps are us” should we grant them human rights? Or is this one of the biggest fallacies in the study of evolution? NOT A CHIMP argues that these similarities have been grossly over-exaggerated - we should keep chimps at arm’s length. Are humans cognitively unique after all?
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Palaeontologists Brought To Tears At Creation Museum
A group of palaeontologists thought it would be a bit of fun to cap off their conference with a giggle at the expense of the Creation Museum. What they found there, however, reduced some to anger - others to tears. According to this Physorg piece, not only was the Museum peddling its ridiculous nonsense that the Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms were created as described in the Bible, but, much worse, the message rampant was that Christianity was the only route to a moral society and that evolution, and evolutionists, have been responsible for the wars, famine and natural disasters that have afflicted human society. Lisa Park, a professor at the University of Akron, and a Presbyterian elder, is quoted saying "I think there's a lot of focus on fear, and I don't think that's a very Christian message...I find it a malicious manipulation of the public".
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