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Quicksilver 09-27-2007 06:37 PM

A setback for supporters of evolution
 
Court won't decare chip a person. :rolleyes:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/...hwJsTGEP8E1vAI

VIENNA, Austria - He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.

A provincial judge in the city of Wiener Neustadt dismissed the case earlier this week, ruling that the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories had no legal standing to argue on the chimp's behalf.

The association, which worries the shelter caring for the chimp might close, has been pressing to get Pan declared a "person" so a guardian can be appointed to look out for his interests and provide him with a home.

Group president Martin Balluch insists that Pan is "a being with interests" and accuses the Austrian judicial system of monkeying around.

"It is astounding how all the courts try to evade the question of personhood of a chimp as much as they can," Balluch said.

Eric5273 09-27-2007 07:21 PM

I didn't know you could be a "supporter" of evolution. :dunno:

noncom23 09-27-2007 07:32 PM

Birds of a feather...

rebound 09-27-2007 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric5273
I didn't know you could be a "supporter" of evolution. :dunno:

So does that mean you can't be a supporter of creationism?

Just because you don't see more than one side doesn't mean others are similarly blinded.

Quicksilver 09-27-2007 09:36 PM

Your eitha for it or again it brudda......:rofl:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric5273
I didn't know you could be a "supporter" of evolution. :dunno:


rebound 09-27-2007 09:44 PM

Eric seems to be having a particularly bad day when it comes to definitions.

(kidnapping, supporter, etc)

Quicksilver 09-27-2007 09:46 PM

Everyone deserves a day off.........Or is that an off day.....:confused:

rebound 09-27-2007 09:48 PM

True dat!


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