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Good morning Robert - I take my hat off to you - you can argue the most preposterous nonsense (eg man is not a species) in a most convincing manner!! I think your comments support my view that there is a certain hubris in the creationist position - ie wanting to give human beings some sort of exalted position in the scheme of things - not satisfied with being top of the heap, wanting to be separate from the heap altogether. We should not be too snobbish to acknowledge our close relationship with the chimpanzee - apparently the "spelling" of the DNA is so close that if I went for tea with a chimpanzee and a gorilla it is the gorilla who would be the odd one out, not me.
As for whether man can permanently change nature, the word "nature" is too vague - obviously man cannot change the "laws of nature", but if we re-frame the question as "Can man permanently change the environment?" then there can surely only be one answer - yes!
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