Apes should have 95% of the rights that humans have, correct? And mice should have 90% of the rights humans have, correct?
2007-11-15 01:57:28 · 18 answers · asked by Jack 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It doesn't mean that they don't deserve humane treatment. All creatures are God's creation. Don't get me wrong. I am not one of those PETA fanatics who believe they are equal to humans. I'm just saying if they must be killed or experimented on it should be done humanely. All living things serve a purpose even vermin.
2007-11-15 02:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think worms share 33% with humans and they were the smallest percentage in the report I saw several years ago.
It means all living organisms have a high percentage of similar DNA. If you look at non-living items and compare them to living things with the view of what are the similarities it makes sence that there is a lot in common elements between all living animals and more similarities as the animals become more complex. If you compare an ape to a rock and list all of the differences then do the same for a rock to a human then it's easy to see the similarities instead of the differences and we are a lot closer than far away. This doesn't mean that there isn't a huge difference between apes, man, worms and mice though it does mean there are a lot of basic similarities as well.
2007-11-15 10:08:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all mutants of the same original DNA . We are not that different then the cow or pig or chicken .
The problem is people can not grasp the concept of what a million years of evolution is .
People talk about dinosaurs as if they just disappeared a short time ago . Just before jesus popped up or the pyramids got built .
65 million years is and extremely long time ago . Since people can not get this into perspective its not hard to think that they have no clue that we all come from the same mutated Dna that may have come here from space a few hundred million years ago .
Life continues to improve itself and what does not work simply stops existing .
At some point our world could reach a point in which one species effects the eco system to the degree that everything changes and most of the life goes extinct .
We may not be so far from J.Vernes time machine in which the molemen feed on the surface dwellers .
Dumb humans which is what we are with out extensive educational materials to reference at our fingertips .
They refuse to let science experiment on people . Yet wild children have accidentally happened .
These people as we call them have no resemblance to us at all one would think .
They do not and can not learn to speak if they had not already had speech patterns and sounds imprinted on them as a child.
Isolate a man from birth and then at 7 years of age try to make him into the social animal you see around you and it is impossible .
When he is hungry he will kill . When cold he will light a fire and if confronted and scared he will kill . .
Man is an educated beast who feels superior to every other creature around him and under the proper circumstances could lose his ability to speech and interact in packs as many animals do now .
Survival is not about intelligence .
Its about food gathering and reproduction . Adapting to survive . Those who live must have done something right . So those genes get passed on with some minor variation and improvement one hopes .
2007-11-15 10:19:59 · answer #3 · answered by TroubleMaker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure where you are going with this.. but I think your numbers are a little low actually... Chimps (yes, I know, not all apes are chimps) share around 98-99% of our DNA
I forget ... but I think you share somewhere between 86-92% of the same DNA as Flowers.
It just means we're all built of the same stuff.
2007-11-15 10:15:51 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the same as a brick and a micro chip being composed of 95% the same material. It is not what you build with that determines the end product so much as how you put it together.
2007-11-15 10:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by Locutus1of1 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
really bad question.
show me one person in the entire world that thinks that apes should have 95% of the rights of humans?
what point are you trying to make?
2007-11-15 10:01:30 · answer #6 · answered by sam f 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, it simply means on the evolutionary tree, we are much more closely related to Apes than to mice.
2007-11-15 10:00:36 · answer #7 · answered by booman17 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
It's proof of evolution. But common strands of DNA doesn't qualify something for political rights. Tigers are in cages in the U.S. because they will never follow our laws.
2007-11-15 10:14:46 · answer #8 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We are all Mammals.
We have more in common with these species than we do with lizards or birds or fish, and we have more in common with those species than we do with grapefruits or beans.
This is basic biology.
2007-11-15 10:08:34 · answer #9 · answered by maryjellerson 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
We are all the same matierial ofcourse, we have just evolved differently
2007-11-15 10:00:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋