God Bless the weirdos at Quora for asking the questions the rest of us are too afraid to ask. Regular readers know that I relish Quora fodder, as questions range from the ridiculous to the thought-provoking, but usually fall into some kind of bizarre no-man’s land.
Such is the case with this question: “Do humanzees (half-human, half-chimpanzee hybrids) exist, or have ones been recorded in the past?” It’s the kind of question that’s both fascinating and lurid, like reading about a baby raised by wild animals. Like allowing a human baby to be raised in the wild (what was once called “the forbidden experiment“), such a horrific, cross-species hybrid would be a disgusting mockery of Creation—so, like the terrible car wreck, we want to see more.
The top answer to the humanzee question is from Belinda Huntington, who explains how various species within the same genus can crossbreed, such as a horse and a zebra, or a lion and a tiger. The more mundane example is the humble mule, the result of a male donkey and a female horse.
Huntington then goes on to detail the many differences between humans and chimpanzees physiologically, and how such differences would make any offspring, if possible, extremely vulnerable and fragile—differences in spinal structure, arm and leg length, cranial capacity, etc.
She doesn’t get into the more interesting metaphysical questions, much less the moral ones—should we interbreed humans and chimps (answer: no)—but she does link to a piece about Soviet experiments to interbreed humans and chimps.
Leave it to a dangerously progressive, atheistic ideology to play God.
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