The scientific explanation of human origins deeply upset the creationists. Why have ridiculed the idea of \u200b\u200b "descended from a monkey" , but even worse, have sought to belittle and misrepresent the knowledge that has been obtained from the fossil record, using the scientific illiteracy and promoting it.
The idea that humans descended from a nonhuman primate, or more colloquially, a monkey or an ape has been strongly attacked by the religious. Not because the theory is not science, but because it contradicts religious dogma.
Misinformation and misrepresentation have revolved around of how evolution works ("if evolution is correct, why there still apes?), the importance of transitional fossils (no" missing links ", nineteenth-century home misnomer), and genetic testing showing evolutionary relationship to infer the time when the lineages diverged.
What cope with this wave of misinformation and frontal attack? The first thing is to fight for greater public understanding of science. Statements and creationist texts show that most people do not know the facts and is ill-conceived ideas about what evolution is and how occurs. Only in education is the solution to scientific illiteracy.
is important to take a day of protest for science, a day that biologists and paleontologists to draw attention to our origins, about the scientific effort to know our place in nature, and in exposing creationist pseudoscience.
Without Gods offers apply on November 24 for this purpose. Why this date? Because a Nov. 24 there were two keys to understanding our origins and our place in nature: the publication of the Origin of Species, in 1859 and the discovery of Lucy in 1974. On we propose would be called "Day of pride primate"
Our hope is that biologists, paleontologists and rationalists generally join in this celebration by making public the following statement:
1. We are proud members of the order of primates. The inclusion in the group of primates is not only a taxonomic but also reveals the evolutionary relationship we have with the other primates.
2. We are proud of "descent from an ape." Not an actual ape species, but an extinct ape, but to ape after all. We are not ashamed of our evolutionary origin.
3. We want to acknowledge the work of paleontologists who have helped to decipher our evolutionary origins and wish to continue developing the work of paleontologists, and the dissemination of their research.
4. We want to acknowledge all biologists and conservationists working to help conserve species of apes.
5. We declare that human beings are not separate from nature, but we are part of nature, as we relate to it in the ecological interactions and our evolutionary origin.
6. express we are proud to be hominids, and that our closest relatives are the African apes. Comparative anatomy and genetics shows the phylogenetic relationship and this fact does not make us less like human beings.
7. We knowledge of human origins that reveals the science is available in all schools and denounce the blockade that make it religious fundamentalist groups.
8. express the opposition made by creationists regarding the relationship of humans with other primates and our evolution is scientifically dishonest and responds only to doctrinal concerns. Creationists have a right to believe whatever they want but can not pretend to ignore the fossil evidence, or DNA, or to pass their religious beliefs as an explanation at the same level of science.
Source: http://blog-sin-dioses.blogspot.com/2010/08/sindioses-propone-el-dia-del-orgullo.html
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