JRTjr writes:
Dear Huntard,
It’s great that you have decided to join our little discussion; I hope you enjoy it.
I'm sure I will.
So, if I understand what you’re saying here {I have been accused of misrepresenting people} is that evolution predicts that once you have a fish it will always produce fish; never anything other than a fish? Correct?
Quite correct. Anything a fish will produce, will be a fish. Of course, you have to realize that with evolution involved, there might come a time when we no longer would refer to it's offspring as a fish, but then, neither would the parents be. There is no line one can draw and say "this is definitely a fish", and on the other side of the line "this is definitely an amphibian" (as an example). There will be many intermediary stages not quite fish and not quite amphibian, and only on either end can we call the creature a fish or an amphibian. Classifications are arbitrary, after all.
Actually, in fact, no one has given me any evidence that mankind has ever been less then mankind.
Mankind never was anything less than mankind. But if you go back far enough, our ancestors weren't mankind, they were something different.
Lets just simplify the question. Can you give me any evidence that you are ancestrally related to any ape?
My parents, come to mind. Also, my little brother, he's quite the ape, as am I, of course.