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An historical overview of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist and biblical creationist who developed the influential Linnaean classification system in biology.
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[__ Science __ ] Carl Linnaeus: Botanist & Creationist
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Linnaeus was the first person to discover the nested hierarchy of taxa that show common descent. It only appears in cases of common descent; Linnaeus was puzzled when things like minerals could not be organized like that. He even admitted that he likely erred in not including man among the apes.
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classification, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. ...But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.
Letter to J. G. Gmelin (1747)
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classification, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. ...But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.
Letter to J. G. Gmelin (1747)