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HARUN YAHYA

been prepared as an entertainment for children. For
instance:
The experimental monkeys sent into space are
referred to as heroes, and we are told, had it not
been for them man could never have taken the
giant leap into space that he did. This is a totally
baseless comment: The monkeys sent into space
did not "succeed" in doing anything. The
rockets they were placed into were
controlled from earth, and the
monkeys were just tightly
strapped into the cabins and
used as experimental subjects.
Furthermore, even if we do allow a measure of heroism in the ex-
perimental animals used in space research, then rats and dogs must
also be included, since these too were used in craft sent up into
space.
It is also stated in My Favorite Monkey that apes have been of
major use to man in the medical field. We are told how, as a result
of research on rhesus monkeys, the Rh tests
were developed. Obviously, though, the
use of an animal in medical research does
not make it a relative of man, in the same
way that the use of bacteria in the develop-
ment of antibiotics does not make them rel-
atives of man.
In that same documentary, a compar-
ison is made between the way that mon-
keys groom each other to remove fleas
and parasites and the way that human
beings go to the hairdresser, and it is
suggested that going to the hairdresser
is parallel social behavior to being
groomed for fleas.

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