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To: blam

That would be a fateful trip, jumping into a time machine and setting the dial to a time which never existed.

And I swear, my ancestors were not monkeys. If there was a planet 3 million years ago, and it had monkeys on it, they looked exactly like monkeys do today.


5 posted on 06/17/2005 10:06:50 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

A time which never existed? Um, excuse me, but isn't there light visible from objects a LOT more than 3 million light years away? Wouldn't this indicate to a reasonable person that the universe is at least as old as the time it would take for the light from the most distant visible objects in the universe to reach us?


9 posted on 06/17/2005 10:48:57 AM PDT by Mylo
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If there was a planet 3 million years ago, and it had monkeys on it, they looked exactly like monkeys do today.

We did not descend from monkeys or apes. The deal is that if we evolved, so did they, so we would be looking at evolved species for both, not at the evolved species and the non-evolved species.

21 posted on 06/17/2005 12:45:24 PM PDT by RightWhale (Some may think I am a methodist)
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To: Nathan Zachary
And I swear, my ancestors were not monkeys. If there was a planet 3 million years ago, and it had monkeys on it, they looked exactly like monkeys do today.

The evidence doesn't support your contention, but hey, if it makes you feel good to believe this, more power to you.

26 posted on 06/17/2005 1:17:23 PM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: Nathan Zachary
"That would be a fateful trip, jumping into a time machine and setting the dial to a time which never existed."

A dozen independent cross verified dating methods disagree with you.

"And I swear, my ancestors were not monkeys. If there was a planet 3 million years ago, and it had monkeys on it, they looked exactly like monkeys do today"

You are quite correct, your ancestors, 3 million years ago were not monkeys. You would have to go much farther back than 3 million years before you encountered a monkey ancestor. Lucy was an ape, just like you. However I doubt very much if monkeys from 3 million years ago looked like they do now. Monkeys now don't look like monkeys do now.

69 posted on 06/17/2005 9:06:01 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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