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To: lilylangtree
Just read in Friday's local paper on an article that there are 35 million reasons why humanity didn't evolve from chimps and that scientists have turned elsewhere to explain humanity's evolution.

Not Darwin, nor any other scientist has ever claimed that humanity evolved from "chimps." Only Creationists state that--as a grotesque and ignorant paradoy of the actual theory of evolution.

Somebody wasted an awful lot of time compiling "35 million" reasons for refuting a strawman.

25 posted on 07/23/2006 9:36:04 AM PDT by ToryHeartland (English Football -- no discernable planning whatsoever.)
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To: ToryHeartland
"Somebody wasted an awful lot of time compiling "35 million" reasons for refuting a strawman."

LOL.

That's the image that initially came to mind as I read the post. A pointy headed propagandist hunched over his poorly lit desk, pencil in hand, enumerating his hate and fear.

This is just another creationist misuse of data. They correctly assume that any numbers presented, no matter how misleading, will resonate and be believed by their audience.

For some reason they think counting the single nucleotide differences between Homo sapiens and Pan will give them an accurate account.

65 posted on 07/23/2006 10:56:19 AM PDT by b_sharp (Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
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