= Systematic Classification of Life - ep41 Hominoidea
From the "[[Response to AronRa]]" series.

== Summary
I decided to skip from 37 to 41 since 41 seems to be the conclusion of the series and I had hopes that AronRa would rehash points of polemical value, and talk about humans. Well, beyond an initially ridiculous statement that we are all a bunch of monkeys and no different from animals, there isn't much here to respond to.

And yes, I watched the entirety of the rest of the video. I am not a paleontologist so I found it boring, but I stuck it out. I swear, another couple videos like this though and I might as well go to do DarkMatter2525 early. Thank goodness for that joke about going ape at the end of the video. It almost made it worth it :)

I am hoping in the next series of AronRa videos we take a look at, there will be some meaty theological issues of great concern presented for us to review.

== Polemical Value
Tier 3 argument; easily dismissed. We'll say tier 3 here due to the specif argument made and not the nature of the argument or how it was made. This may play into discussions of being created "in God's image" later, and what that may mean to this sort of discussion.


== Video Commentary
This section is usually written during a final watch after I've seen the video through once or twice. Then I go back and write the summary (above).

== Equivocation, Fallacy of Composition, Reductio Ad Absurdum
Early on at 0:10 AronRa states we are no different than an animal because we are animals. Yes, in the sense we are Mammals -- but to say we are no different than an animal is highly misleading. He continues by saying that it is possibly disturbing to people that they are primates. As seen in the response to episodes 24 and 37, this line of argument is not worth responding to because it is not a point we disagree on. However, the argument is made very poorly here. Ultimately it is incorrect to say we are 'no different than an animal', unless you essentially redefine what animal means.

We get it -- 0:25 "humans are quite literally a bunch of monkeys". We get it, AronRa is trying to stir the hive. But he's doing it by essentially selling a mistruth. No, we're not //really// a bunch of monkeys, nor are we //no different than animals//.  If this were true, some humans would be on display in zoos or we would eat bugs off each other's backs like some monkeys do (Reductio Ad Absurdum). We don't.

We're not sure why AronRa is pushing this point either since it doesn't seem to be a very strong attack on theism.