How does that make him wrong? It's a widely accepted truism in paleontology that gorillas, chimps and human all evolved from a common ancestor.
Are you an idiot?
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Derp.
I'll soft ball it to you. He's spouting number like they mean something more than they do. That 2% means a LOT.
Just like him saying there's a bigger diff between brother and sister than between races.
There is...because they're different genders. He got called on that bullshit.
Its called intellectual honesty. Nye doesn't have it.
His argument would be like me saying, "well children are exploring their bodies so who cares if I did an autopsy on a living child. Children die everyday all over the world, are you gonna arrest every person who ever had a child..."
Re: Bill Nye to Anti-Abortionists: "You Literally Don't Know What You're Talking About"
Good stuff.
I'd have more respect for anti-abortion people if they factored in practical ways of reducing abortion, education and such, rather than trying to legislate based on their half-understood ideas of how it works and heavy-handedly trying to punish people for not doing it their way.
Problem: People really are trying to pass laws on that kind of logic, prevent women from having access to morning-after pills, and so on.
That's what he's pointing out, and he's right. People really are trying to pass laws on the idea that "If this doesn't happen, we need to punish the woman responsible!".
And that once a conception happened, the person must be in it for the long haul, like it or not.
Pretty nasty stuff that really has no root in biology, in other words.
Heck it doesn't even really have a root in religion, 'life begins at conception' sure isn't in any bible I ever had.
Not that religious objection should override someone else's health and safety.
Look up 'cladistics'.
I.e. by one of the common ways of charting evolution, species are considered part of their ancestor's group, or clade.
So we're part of the ape clade, which is part of the monkey clade, which is part of the primate clade, which is part of the mammal clade, which is part of the vertebrate clade, which is part of the animal clade, which is part of the earth life clade.
We are thus all of these things. New groups, like humans, are added on top of old ones, but don't make us not part of our prior clades.
I have as much respect for anti abortion people as I do for the pro choice crowd. Both groups are idiotic without any clue as to how to meet in the middle.
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Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
Re: Re: Bill Nye to Anti-Abortionists: "You Literally Don't Know What You're Talking About"
please don't play the pro-fem card with me, Men have never had a legal right to ending a connection with their children.
It's just more of the infantilized women not wanting to take responsibility for their actions. I will agree that women should be able to get birth control but honestly I find the whole "stay out of my bedroom" argument hilarious when contrasted with "buy me contraception."
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