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Subject: Re: Re: Comments about SOR Pamphlet #4: Humans & Chimps
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> I seem to recall a quote in an issue of Newsweek that dealt
> with evolution a couple of years ago in which an evolutionist
> remarked upon the genetic similarity between chimps and humans.
> One quote in particular sticks in my mind: observing that it
> would probably be possible to cross the two species, he
> added that "it is difficult to imagine an experiment that is
> at the same time as scientifically interesting and morally
> repugnant."  I may still have the article at home, and I'll
> try to hunt up the exact quote.
> 
> 	Mike


"I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic 
character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself
most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to
me. But, if I had called man an ape, or visa versa, I would have 
fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a
naturalist I ought to have done so. "
Carl Linnaeus    .... 1788   .... founder of taxonomy
Darwin also thought of the idea of speciation as an artificial distinction
applied by man, and described the process as a continuum.
j. blossom LANL