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Author Topic:   How will creationists react to the first human-chimp hybrid?
iano
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Message 48 of 138 (449225)
01-17-2008 7:53 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by cavediver
01-15-2008 8:25 AM


cavediver writes:
Concentrating on 3), would this be sufficent to demonstrate our 'obvious' family ties with our cousins? Would this be rather convincing evidence for humans and chimps being of one 'kind'? I would answer yes, but how would our creationists react to this news? Or would they simply deny the possibility of the success of such an experiment?
First things first. Biblically speaking, that which set Adam apart from all other creatures was the fact of God breathing life into him. Man is special not because of the machine he inhabits but because he exists apart from the machine. The machine - this body and mind - will rot in the grave (according to Christian thinking - creationist and no).
As to what should be said about the forced occurance you speak of? It seems to me that there is as much contributed to the idea of a creator designer utilising same componants and sub-systems across numerous designs - as there is to the idea of common descent.
Edited by iano, : No reason given.

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