From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/17/25 10:36 AM, RonO wrote:   
      
   > Chimps make and use tools.   
      
   No they don't. It's stupid. And pretending they do doesn't make   
   Chimps more like us, it makes "Tools" irrelevant. Because Chimps   
   use "Tools" the same way countless mammals, birds and even   
   invertebrates use "Tools." So either the history of tool use is   
   unknown and unknowable, and thus useless to science, or you're   
   using "Tool" as a verb and then turning around and pretending   
   it's a noun.   
      
   I'll explain it, and your extensively documented mental illness   
   coupled to your idiocy will cause you to ignore it...   
      
   Show us a million year old Chimp tool.   
      
   Show us some 600,000 year old Chimp tools.   
      
   You pretend Chimps have been around for millions of years, right?   
   And they make tools... right?  So show us some million year old   
   Chimp tools.   
      
   But you can't. Because you're not witnessing tools -- which are   
   nouns and CAN be preserved in the archaeological record -- you   
   are witnessing ACTIONS. So if you don't see the rock in use you   
   can't see a "Tool" as you mistakenly use the term. This rock,   
   a million years later, is completely indistinguishable from any   
   random rock.   
      
   It was THE ACTIONS -- verb -- that was special, not the rock.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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