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To: fish hawk
The very first line is a lie. It should read: Ape like monkey ancestors .... Not ape like "human" ancestors.

Wow. That's an impressive concentration of ignorance packed into a couple short sentences: Effectively an announcement, that; "Now I'm going to debunk an entire subject I thoroughly misunderstand and know virtually nothing about"!

Where to start? First apes evolved from monkeys (or monkey-like ancestors) not monkeys from apes, so you have that completely backwards.

Second monkeys and apes are vastly more distinct from each other by nearly every objective measure -- gross anatomy, genetic distance, geologic time separating first appearances in the fossil record; excepting, of course, only the uniquely extreme development of the neocortex in humans -- than humans are from apes. Therefore if you object to the notion that humans and apes are related by evolution, you logically ought also to object to the notion that monkeys and apes are so related. In fact the fossil evidence of early apes is actually worse, relatively speaking, than that of early humans.

29 posted on 03/12/2007 7:42:55 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis
I put it that way because Monkeys, Apes, Chimps etc. etc. are all the same to me and Humans are a whole different subject. Nit picking will get you nowhere. You are welcome to your "philosophy" (Darwinism: and that is all that it is) and I have mine. Putting me down for my opinion does not make you a brilliant person. But then you are probably somehow in time, related to monkeys, apes, and chimps, I am not.
34 posted on 03/12/2007 7:54:39 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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