Bobby Bandwidth@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agoAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?message-squaremessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down114
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?Bobby Bandwidth@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareJesterRaiin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-22 years ago…and, given time and enough of a change to relevant peoples’ mindset, so does the classification of both some animals and humans might change. Because that’s how science was, is and will ever be - a mutable “phenomenon”, where rigidity means lack of progress. I see no problem in that.
minus-squareMelllvar@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years ago…you seem to be vacillating between anti-science and science-literate positions.
minus-squareJesterRaiin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 years agoMortuorum verba non faciunt.
…and, given time and enough of a change to relevant peoples’ mindset, so does the classification of both some animals and humans might change.
Because that’s how science was, is and will ever be - a mutable “phenomenon”, where rigidity means lack of progress.
I see no problem in that.
…you seem to be vacillating between anti-science and science-literate positions.
Ordo ab chao.
Quam valde stultus est.
Mortuorum verba non faciunt.