Bobby Bandwidth 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-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 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-22 years agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareJesterRaiinlinkfedilink-2•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-squareMelllvarlinkfedilink2•2 years ago…you seem to be vacillating between anti-science and science-literate positions.
…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.
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