Beretta writes:
If you're a creationist you'd only conclude that all 3 died and were buried at different levels for different possible reasons -perhaps their bodies were washed there from somewhere else altogether and deposited at different levels but unlike the evolutionist you would certainly not conclude any kind of relationship between the humans and the orangutan.
You miss my point. The items aren't connected logically by their proximity. They're connected logically by their characteristics.
We conclude that the links belong to the same chain because the links are the same size, have the same chemical composition, show the same tool marks, etc. Similarly, we conclude that the bones are from related species because they have similar characteristics.
The question is: why would we logically conclude that similar structures are not related? Never mind humans and orangutans. Why would bats and whales have such similar bone structures in such different environments if they didn't have a common ancestor?
Creationism fails the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others test by claiming that nothing is like anything else. So creationism shouldn't be on Sesame Street or in the schools.
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