This made me chuckle. Letter to the Editor in response to Time's cover article "What Makes Us Different" that explains the differences and similarities between humans and chimps (who share 99% DNA):
"'What Makes Us Different?' We're made in the image of God; chimpanzees are not. In understanding the genome, scientists can neither add to nor take away from this truth. Spiritual realities are not the province of the natural sciences. What is truly different between human beings and even our closest cousins in the animal kingdom is the ability to reason. The great apes are not reasoninig creatures, which doesn't mean they are unable to think in their own way. They just aren't able to sit around and pose questions like, What makes us different?"
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The great apes decided long ago that questions like that are a waste of time. ;D
as usual (have u got used to me yet?--the queen of non-sequitors), this is not related, but it also made me chuckle.
"The old saying that "there is always a woman behind a powerful man" is another example of women's superiority. History is strewn with seminal examples: Anthony's Cleopatra, Napoleon's Josephine, King Edward's Wallis Simpson, and of course Adam and Eve." (David Tang - i'm reading his mildly entertaining essays, "An Apple A Week")
:)
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