[Chimps do "vocalize" to communicate, and can do sign language - even teaching others. They are altruistic. Koko the gorilla likes to paint.
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Then it shouldn't be any stretch of the imagination to believe in talking donkeys or talking snakes. After all, evolutionists claim that that there are billions of talking apes.
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But we don't have any evidence of serpents being able to do any higher communication. And we certainly don't have any evidence of them having the appropriate vocal cords and lips to form sounds like we do.
But regarding donkeys - we all know a talking ass or two, like Carico.
evolutionists claim that that there are billions of talking apes.
About 6.5 billion at last count, I think.
"talking snakes."
"After all, evolutionists claim that that there are billions of talking apes."
Not talking but they are communicating.
But of course I believe in talking donkeys. Why just the other day I and a friend were passing a donkey and at just that moment a guy in eye-liner, lipstick and a shell-suit, carrying a pack of condoms and a tub of crisco walked past in the other direction.
"Guess what he does for a living." said my friend, who's a tad homophobic.
And the donkey, not recognising it was a rhetorical question, answered him, "He whore!"
1) Apes can communicate as clearly as they can because of how intelligent they are. Show me a donkey or a snake as intelligent as a chimpanzee.
2) Apes have been shown to be able to communicate with hand gestures, etc. Snakes and donkeys, not so much. Something about the vocal cords (or lack there of, rather).
Apes are different from talking donkeys or snakes. We have never found any evidence that donkeys or snakes can talk, considering that their vocal cords can't make human sounds, so never mind just understanding human speech.
But here's the stinger. Snakes lack both ears and vocal cords. In short, it's physically impossible for snakes to speak, or understand speech.
... evolutionists claim that there are billions of talking apes.
There are humans, of course. But the other kind? Nah. Not yet. You haven't been paying attention.
"it shouldn't be any stretch of the imagination to believe in talking donkeys or talking snakes"
Certainly for you & your fundy ilk, Carico. Frankly, even a Potto or Tarsier could outthink you, never mind a chimpanzee trained in the use of sign language like the legendary Washoe.
I am not an expert on the subject, but I believe certain canines, especially grey wolves, are known to use vocal communication. In fact, they are known to understand the functioning of simple devices such as latches almost immediately and to apply this knowledge to other instances of the device. Likewise, anecdotal evidence exists that at least some house-cats can apply objects in the environment as tools (in the anecdote, elasticised fabric hairbands were pilfered and used as sponges).
...except that snakes don't have vocal cords, and neither snakes nor donkeys have the ability to generate the complex abstract conceptual structures upon which language is constructed, whereas higher primates do .
After all, evolutionists claim that that there are billions of talking apes.
In fact, we do, and there are--not only do they talk, they also write books and construct complex machines. The term we generally use to describe them is "human."
Confused?
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