Linnæus’ nomenclature of living things, pig latin & creationism vs. evolutionary science

[justinacolmena]

There are seven levels to the grand scientific naming scheme for life on earth. For example a human being is of:

1. Kingdom Animalia (animals, rather than plants, fungi or protozoa etc.)
2. Phylum Chordata (chordates: animals possessed of a spinal cord)
3. Class Mammalia (mammals: warm-blooded animals with breasts who suckle their young)
4. Order Primates (primates: apes and monkeys)
5. Family Hominidæ (hominids or human-like creatures: German Menschen, Swedish människor, Norwegian mennesken, those that God is said to have created in the Bible, male and female)
6. Genus Homo (man, French homme)
7. Species [Homo] sapiens (sapient, i.e. wise, cunning, or intelligent man)

Theoretically every living thing has its place in this particular nomenclature.

Objections and shortcomings are accumulating, however.

• The use of bastardized late-medieval pig Latin with artificially regularized endings and forced plurals.
• An endemic European or Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism to the whole scheme.
• Arbitrary “levels” or ranks of classification that often correspond poorly to natural divisions.
• Problems of multiple inheritance or false or inaccurate assumptions of a single common ancestor for modern species: an oversimplified grade-school evolutionism.

 

[Third Party]

There are seven levels to the grand scientific naming scheme for life on earth. For example a human being is of:

1. Kingdom Animalia (animals, rather than plants, fungi or protozoa etc.)
2. Phylum Chordata (chordates: animals possessed of a spinal cord)
3. Class Mammalia (mammals: warm-blooded animals with breasts who suckle their young)
4. Order Primates (primates: apes and monkeys)
5. Family Hominidæ (hominids or human-like creatures: German Menschen, Swedish människor, Norwegian mennesken, those that God is said to have created in the Bible, male and female)
6. Genus Homo (man, French homme)
7. Species [Homo] sapiens (sapient, i.e. wise, cunning, or intelligent man)

Theoretically every living thing has its place in this particular nomenclature.

Objections and shortcomings are accumulating, however.

• The use of bastardized late-medieval pig Latin with artificially regularized endings and forced plurals.
• An endemic European or Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism to the whole scheme.
• Arbitrary “levels” or ranks of classification that often correspond poorly to natural divisions.
• Problems of multiple inheritance or false or inaccurate assumptions of a single common ancestor for modern species: an oversimplified grade-school evolutionism.

What about non specific gender pronouns?