I'm learning this new stuff. This is my first debate, so I might not win but I'll try. The word kind has many meanings I see. But whats to say that one is the right one when it comes to this topic.
Assuming that B and N are in different kinds, where would you put the dividing line between ape-kind and human-kind?
Between the ape and the human. Just joking buddy. The human skeleton may be close to that of some primates - but so many of our other biological parts are not! Similarity ('homology') is not an absolute indication of common ancestry (Evolution) but certainly points to a common designer (creation).
Categories are human inventions; although categories are obviously useful they also have their limitations.
To make categories for bones would be a human invention. There are limitations for categories but there are none for the human mind. To make linkings would be the mind at work.
"Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to."
Referring to comments made by Richard Leakey (Director of National Museums of Kenya) in The Weekend Australian, 7-8 May 1983, Magazine, p. 3
Think about living in a time where some lands didn't have some vitamins you needed. You would only eat whats around you. This would be change your shape. If a person doesn't get enough calcium for 10 or 20 years it affects their spinal column and posture, correct? (Such a deficiency can also have serious impacts on the circulation and central nervous systems as well, by the way.) Until about 100 years ago most people around the world ate only local foods. Local foods are grown in local soil. So then . if the local soil in some places was deficient in magnesium, iron, aluminum, or any combination of so many other minerals that we need at least trace amounts of . how would that affect their skeletal, circulatory and nervous systems . ? If everybody there had low iron . ? Low potassium in some areas . ? We'd get a few deformed skeletons as mute testimony to the long-term deficiencies in particular locales, correct? And that's what we find.
Scientist are still using human deficiencies as proof for evolution.
'' An extraordinary family who walk on all fours are being hailed as the breakthrough discovery which could shed light on the moment Man first stood upright..."
Time-warp family who walk on all fours | Daily Mail Online
One of my questions have alway been is Horizontal Evolution.
If you got Horizontal Evolution going on, how can you tell if complex animals came after the ones that were less.
This message has been edited by Indiana Jones, 04-08-2006 03:42 PM