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>It does not please [you] that I've placed Man among the Anthropomorpha, perhaps because of the term "with human form", but man learns to know himself. Let's not quibble over words. It will be the same to me whatever name we apply. But I seek from you and from the whole world a generic difference between man and simian that [follows] from the principles of Natural History. I absolutely know of none. If only someone might tell me a single one! If I would have called man a simian or vice versa, I would have brought together all the theologians against me. Perhaps I ought to have by virtue of the law of the discipline.
What did he mean by this?
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>>1992563
*tips fedora*
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>>1992570
Linnaeus was a Christian, anon. Keep your tips.
>One should not vent one's wrath on animals, Theology decree that man has a soul and that the animals are mere "aoutomata mechanica," but I believe they would be better advised that animals have a soul and that the difference is of nobility.
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>>1992563
>>1992610
"God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts." 19For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. 20All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.…
Some bits of the Bible offer themselves to oppose some commonnly held doctrines.
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>>1993585
Oh yeah, I have a pic of that.
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>>1993585
it's only fundie proddies who have issue with evolution/life being more than 6000 years old
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>>1993706
Some interpret it to mean that God is testing us to see if we turn to naturalism (us being animals, purely physical) or something like that.
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>>1992610
He was a "christian", as in he followed the cultural doctrine. He, like most christians, doesn't believe the story of creation.
Most post enlightenment christians are just spiritual people, not religious ones.
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Anyone?
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>>1997661
Atheists got bullied out of /his/, and religious people don't like talking about evolution, because it makes them uneasy.
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>>1994823
>He, like most christians, doesn't believe the story of creation.
Blasphemy.
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>>1994811
humans are hiplets
kek
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>>1998753
>implying evolution makes me uneasy
It doesn't anon, it makes everything make a lot more sense
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