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"consider this, we have similar or even some same dna genes as the monkey class, and we even have similar build, and move around similarly! such similarities, such possibilities, we must have descended from the same ancestor!"

i think it falls under a variation of "undistributed middle"(monkeys have this gene, we have this gene, therefore we have a same ancestor), and "shifting the grounds" (from similarities to ancestor).

what other fallacies can you see in this argument?

2007-06-16 02:57:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

for those that are so narrow-minded you cannot even see any fault in this hasty conclusion, dont bother to answer this question then, since you think there's nothing wrong with jumping to conclusions. thanks.

2007-06-16 03:03:39 · update #1

by the answers from the evolutionists here, seems like they dont like logic to be applied to this question, or they just don't believe that logic exists. too bad they're so narrow minded.

2007-06-16 18:57:44 · update #2

10 answers

Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent

2007-06-16 03:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by sNickerz 2 · 1 0

When 95% of our genome is the same as that of a chimpanzee, I'd hardly say that it constitutes "jumping to a conclusion."
This a logical deductive process. It merely indicates that at some point in the far distant past we had a common ancestor, thats all. What form that ancestor took is not really known.

2007-06-16 10:10:58 · answer #2 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 0 1

seems logical to me that a common ancestor would exist and the forebears would mutate into different species with slightly different DNA. We're talking eons, not thousands of years...

2007-06-16 14:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 1

Obviously you're a biologist, geneticist, physicist, psychologist, theologian or whatever, with a theory more in line with reality, AND that your insight is not a "daddy in the sky did it" argument. The world is all ears. I very much want to hear about your breakthrough. Speak up and please make sure I get a email about it.

2007-06-16 10:24:22 · answer #4 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0 1

I see they fallacy of asking a rhetorical question, without the slightest knowledge of the workings of biology and evolution.
This questions displays complete and utter ignorance of evolution. Please read 'Origin of Species' by Darwin, then repost an intelligent question.
Or, better yet, just quote some bible verses, that'll show us.

2007-06-16 10:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by No Chance Without Bernoulli 7 · 1 1

It falls under the ol' fallacies that really are true category.

2007-06-16 10:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by StayThirstyMyFriends 6 · 0 0

I think it falls under the " Who gives a sh*t " category. Monkey or no monkey, I came from God. End of story.

2007-06-16 10:18:16 · answer #7 · answered by Dirk Johnson 5 · 0 1

fisrt we humans are not monkeys those stupid scientists said that just so we can make idiots out of ourselves in saying that and second if humans were from monkeys then why do we see alot of monkeys everywhere by now there shouldn't be any monkeys. so there it is we are not monkeys!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-16 10:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Tootsie 2 · 1 0

Well, it's not just one gene that's the same. It's something like 90%/

2007-06-16 10:00:18 · answer #9 · answered by Cole Cooper™ 4 · 0 1

How about "straw man" fallacy?

And the genetic match is ~99% (see article)

2007-06-16 09:59:56 · answer #10 · answered by Bambi B 3 · 1 1

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