Re: Human skull evolution

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:22:21 -0500

At 03:18 PM 6/15/98 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:
>GM>If the created unit is the order then we were evolved from the first
monkey!!!!
>After all, they and we humans are all in the order "Primate".
>
>Also false is your implication that under PC "the created unit is the
order".
>Erickson specifically says "That grouping may have been as broad as
>the order OR AS NARROW AS THE GENUS" and in fact "may have extended to the
>creation of individual species. (my emphasis). Thus, under PC, in the case
>of man, the "created kind" may have been first primate (order), the first
>Homo (genus) or the first Homo sapiens (species).
>

The utter fluidity of such a definition means that it is useless for
discussion. It can mean whatever the debator wants it to mean that this
second.

glenn

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