[In response to an illustration of Ardipithecus ramidus, the earliest known human ancestor.]
*rolling eyes emoticon*
You can find lots of those things at your local zoo. There is nothing remotely human about the picture associated with the article. It's an ANIMAL.
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Wow. Even if you don't accept evolutionary theory, you should at least learn what the word "extinct" means.
Or do you think you can find dodos at the zoo, too?
You can find lots of those things at your local zoo
Last time I checked not a single zoo in my vicinity had a living specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus.
There is nothing remotely human about the picture associated with the article. It's an ANIMAL
Well, humans are animals, members of the ordio Primates and the familia Hominidae ;)
Fundie word redefinition project: Animal.
Original meaning: any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animallike nutritional modes.
Revised Fundie meaning: all of that stuff and some atheists and liberals, and gays and possibly Muslims - but no descendants of Adam and Eve, m'kay?
It's an ANIMAL.
Sure, but it's an animal unlike anything alive today. You certainly wouldn't find it at your local zoo. It's extinct. And there is something remotely human about it. It's more like a human than a modern chimp is. That's what evolution says: a common ancestor split into two populations. One became more and more human, the other became more and more chimp. This animal is one of the first steps toward human. Only creationists claim humans sprung fully formed out of nothing.
"You can find lots of those things at your local zoo."
I think you'd be very unlikely to do that.
"It's an ANIMAL."
No shit? And here I thought it was a plant.
Here's a tip: You are also an animal you ignoramus.
This from an excellent youtube author called AronRa
"“Primates” are collectively defined as any gill-less, organic RNA/DNA protein-based, metabolic, metazoic, nucleic, diploid, bilaterally-symmetrical, endothermic, digestive, tryploblast, opisthokont, deuterostome coelemate with a spinal chord and 12 cranial nerves connecting to a limbic system in an enlarged cerebrial cortex with a reduced olfactory region inside a jawed-skull with specialized teeth including canines and premolars, forward-oriented fully-enclosed optical orbits, and a single temporal fenestra, -attached to a vertebrate hind-leg dominant tetrapoidal skeleton with a sacral pelvis, clavical, and wrist & ankle bones; and having lungs, tear ducts, body-wide hair follicles, lactal mammaries, opposable thumbs, and keratinized dermis with chitinous nails on all five digits on all four extremities, in addition to an embryonic development in amniotic fluid, leading to a placental birth and highly social lifestyle."
Please tell me what you have to remove to make this definition fit humans. Thank you.
"There is nothing remotely human about the picture associated with the article. It's an ANIMAL."
*sings *
'You and me baby we ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel'
-Bloodhound Gang
I think that says it all, really. Very relevant too. And in more ways than you can even imagine, PlasmaWolf.
@ John
Only creationists claim humans sprung fully formed out of nothing.
Mud, wasn't it? I used to think it was why some people are uglier than a mud fence...
and/or dumber.
You can find lots of those things at your local zoo.
Yeah, and you can see saber tooth tigers at the zoo too.
There is nothing remotely human about the picture associated with the article. It's an ANIMAL.
So are you. Humans are animals.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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