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The obvious similarities to a linguist are the same as obvious genetic similarities to a biologist.............but Apes and Humans, speaking in genetic terms, are probably more comparable to an Alabama accent vs. a Boston accent.

2007-05-23 15:48:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

"Spanish" and "French" in the subject refers to the languages.

2007-05-23 15:51:59 · update #1

Thanks for proving my point, Bobby. The astute reader with a knowledge of biology will realize that Latin is the root of your 4 languages. Slavic languages have a different root.

Those two languages eventually will also share a common ancestor.

2007-05-23 16:01:31 · update #2

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Actually, the Slavic languages are more distant cousins of ours and the Romance languages - maybe tree shrews or some such.

I'm surprised no one has come on and denied historical linguistics on the basis of the Tower of Babel story.

2007-05-23 16:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0 1

Because Latin wasn't an ape.
The "Romance Languages" all came from Latin:
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English.
AND,
if that WAS the "ape" of languages, then the Slavic languages were from a different species, and n'ere the two shall meet.

2007-05-23 15:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0 0

Common ancestry among primates is not just a matter of "belief", it is what the plethora of evidence suggests..!!

Fundy christians seem to think the idea of evolution was first postulated, then the search for "suitable" evidence was then undertaken to back it up.

The reverse is true, where the overwhelming data conclusively pointed to an unavoidable conclusion: evolution..!
The many fields of evidence for common ancestry between humans and the greater apes is just a small part of the evolutionary big picture, but is the biggest problem for religious literalists. Curious..!

Some people demand to see the "proof" of this, but the evidence and data supporting evolution are freely accessable and numerous..
If people simply refuse to acknowledge how scientific conclusions are reached, or even misquote or misrepresent science and/or it's methods, in order to protect their fantastical beliefs, then they are actively in denial and spreading lies when not being foolish or ignorant..

Claims of "there are no transitional fossils", or "there is no evidence or proof" only highlight the sheer ignorance and lack of scientific literacy among these types.

2007-05-23 16:05:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Answer used earlier than) Evolutionary primer. Earth Creationists could also be worried that a few of their usual arguments towards evolution sound dismissive or patronizing. This is typically actual: in any debate, it is normal to border your opponent's arguments in a vulnerable mild. Sometimes that is performed intentionally to make evolution sound ridiculous, and in many instances it is performed by accident by way of lack of information of what evolution is and the way it works. Since incorrect information and lack of information are deficient structures on which to construct any dialog, I gift the next Evolution a hundred and one Primer for the advantage of Young Earthers who wish a right elementary expertise in their foe. I believe the fine approach to try this is to dispel the 3 so much normal evolution myths. Myth #one million: Men developed from modern day apes. This is the oldest and wrongest false impression approximately evolution. Nobody has ever recommended that one residing species alterations into an extra residing species. Some criticisms of evolution exhibit illustrations that fraudulently purport to exhibit what evolutionists declare: that a salmon transformed right into a turtle, which transformed into an alligator, which transformed right into a hippo, which transformed right into a lion, after which right into a monkey, after which right into a person. Of path the sort of conception could appear ludicrous. But it is natural delusion and has not anything in normal with truly evolution. The diversification of species is sort of a wooded area of bushes, sprouting from the proverbial primordial soup. Many bushes die out. Some do not develop very tall. Some have grown plenty over the eons and are nonetheless developing in these days. Trees department out, and branches department out themselves, however branches certainly not come again in combination or mix from 2 one-of-a-kind bushes. The course of a species' evolution is formed just like the department of a tree, no longer a donut, no longer a determine eight, no longer a ladder. To embody evolution, you wish to have no longer — have got to no longer — believe that a salmon turns right into a zebra, or that an ape becomes a person. It's easily no longer genetically viable. We've all visible the opposite popular instance, wherein a monkey morphs into an ape, that morphs right into a caveman, that morphs into homo sapiens. If you climb backtrack the tree department, you'll certainly uncover prior types of guy wherein he was once smaller, hairier, and dumber, but it surely would possibly not be a modern day ape. To uncover a modern day ape, you'll must pass even additional down the tree, thousands and thousands of years, uncover an completely one-of-a-kind department, after which comply with that department by way of one-of-a-kind genetic variations, beyond countless different lifeless-finish branches, beyond different branches main to different modern day species, after which you can uncover the modern day ape. Never the twain shall meet. Source(s): paste from Skeptoid Magazine publication.

2016-09-05 09:40:55 · answer #4 · answered by melville 3 · 0 0

Baal: Your answer is answered at the web-site from the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) www.dissentfromdarwin.org - its a great reality check !!!


PS. Wasn't it Bin Laden, who stated that we, (over here, in North America) are "the sons of apes"?

2007-05-23 15:57:05 · answer #5 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0 0

The spanish and french belong to different haplogroups.

The only people common to both are the celts.
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2007-05-23 15:52:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

why do u need justification to believe in that theory? believe in whatever makes u feel good, u will always find those who would agree with you, those that would dedicate their lives to find more proof and those would try their best to prove it wrong. life would be so boring if only one truth was available for the human race

2007-05-23 15:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by escorpiona_24 2 · 1 0

Because it is very hard to believe pure fiction. Pops

2007-05-23 15:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by Pops 6 · 1 0

Hey, if you wanna believe your related to an ape, more power to ya! As for me, I've got a little more sense. :P

2007-05-23 15:52:27 · answer #9 · answered by adrift feline 6 · 0 1

Umm.. I don't know. That argument isn't that hot although I agree with the basic idea.

2007-05-23 15:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by thalmozar the man god 2 · 0 1

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