Posted on 11/18/2004 7:00:02 PM PST by Pharmboy
If it is the "missing link" then why are the lesser primates still here? Why are any primates sill here at all if they evolved into humans?
Answer: Interspecies evolution is bunk.
That is one of the biggest misconceptions about evolution. Parent species don't have to disappear just because they give off other species...
I don't believe in (MACRO)evolution either.
Then where are the half-ape half-humans? Where are the current evolving species? Where are the proto-humans and super-humans? A few million years is NOT window enough for vast, out and out interspecies evolution across the globe. Sorry, it's bunk. And before anyone presumes, this is not coming from a "fundamentalist."
Look at the numerous "missing links" - most discredited, the rest tenuous at best.
Only had to wait 20.
At the risk of attracting another variety of fundie flames, they seem to be missing a few pieces out of this particular puzzle. Stick 'em together a little differently and it might look more like James Carville.
I thought Eaker was the missing link ? Or was he just missin a few links ??
It is nothing but small changes (so small we can't see 'em) accummulating over time, then - BOOM! - you gots sumpin' new!
I want to see if he's got BIG toes or THUMBS down there!
Why are there asses, zebras, horses, donkeys and so forth? They all have common ancestory as well. A rather small three toed horse like beastie from what is now the American continent. Some of them can interbreed, but the crosses are generally infertile. Some examples would be mules and burros.
There never was such a thing.
Where are the current evolving species?
All around you.
Where are the proto-humans and super-humans?
Protohumans died out because humans were better adapted to live in the changing envioronment than the former. I'm not sure what you have in mind with super-humans.
LMAO........Too funny !
And humans and the like?? We are not equestrials afterall...
And the evidence for the mass amounts of positive mutation required to transform primates to humans would be where?
To make it clear, I think intraspecies evolution happens, but not on a radical enough level to transform a species to another.
And next you will tell me that Friedrich Nietszche is the missing link to our future.
You summed it up well when you said, "There never was such a thing."
The proto-humans, seemingly spawned from primates, would've been better adapted than the primates, but the primates are still here and the proto-humans aren't. Holes. Everywhere holes, I tell you...
You can put a suit on him, but he is still an ape.
None of the primates of 13 million years ago are still here. They have all evolved forward.
Some took one path (such as the apes), some another (such as the chimps and humans), some yet another (such as the gibbons and their cousins). But in no case is there a primate specie alive today that is exactly as it was 13 million years ago.
All have changed.
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