Posted on 11/30/2013 3:12:24 AM PST by Eurotwit
The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested. The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals. He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.
Dr McCarthy says these divergent characteristics are most likely the result of a hybrid origin at some point far back in human evolutionary history. What's more, he suggests, there is one animal that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins in the animal kingdom. 'What is this other animal that has all these traits?' he asks rhetorically. 'The answer is Sus scrofa, the ordinary pig.' Dr McCarthy elaborates his astonishing hypothesis in an article on Macroevolution.net, a website he curates. He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.
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well, that explains everything! It all makes sense now.
OINK!
Maybe that’s why eating pork isn’t good for you!
The good professor was sitting around with a bunch of liberal friends on election night, all drunk out of their minds. Passing several blunts between themselves, the prof eyed one of the bulldyke lib partiers. Into his head came the strains of ‘dueling banjos’ and he had his Eureka moment.
Oh, those crazy leghumpers
I disagree. dems are the result of pigs mating with rats. And now we are infested with these vermin. It’s a job for Orkin.
Ask Ned Beatty
“Squeal like a pig, boy. Squeal like a pig!”
This guy is a kook. Although one would think that he would have learned something about evolution while earning his PhD in genetics, he apparently slept through that part of his studies.
He has a grand total of 5 publications listed in PubMed, the most recent in 2006—which is an awfully low number. Also, even though he is described as being from the University of Georgia, he is not listed among the Genetics department faculty. He did get his degrees there.
I’m not surprised that he had to resort to self-publishing. There is no way his stuff would be published in any kind of scientific venue.
Most people who have PhDs in a life science are pretty intelligent, stable people. But a handful of nut jobs also manage to get PhDs. I’m thinking of Michael Behe and Duane Gish, specifically. It looks like another kook is now competing with them.
So leftists can no longer brag about evolving from a puddle of scum? I’ll need more proof.
This guy has had scientific training, but he's just a nut job. Wild speculation does not become science just because someone who was scientifically educated came up with the ideas. In order for a scientific hypothesis (not theory) to be genuine, it must be logically based in known facts--which this guy's speculation is not. In the science world, a theory is not speculation--it is the framework that ties together and explains a body of knowledge in a specific subject.
Doubt no more friend.
Exhibit B
South Park was so close. Seems it might have been chimp-bear-pig all along, which explains Al Gore throwing feces all the damn time.
Further more it buttresses the Radical Feminist view that all men are rapists pigs.
You gotta admit, it seems to wrap things up nicely.
So - if this is true - then we are all descents of pigs to include Moslems...WOW, Moslems even hate their own kind...that’s some serious hate!
It’s too early to entertain such articles...but I did...now moving on to the next one...like Pookie Toons...
It’s possible—after all, Obamacare was the product of a monkey mating with a football...
“Some scientists are so confident of their superior intellect that they never doubt their own ideas. Even wild speculation is passed off as science, because it is a scientist speaking.”
To be fair, this comment is attributed to him in the article:
“He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis”
It’s an interesting observation, but alas just a hypothesis and as such is specifically NOT passed off as science.
I think most women, at some point in the lives, feel that they have married a pig.
If the writer or the theorist wish to think they came from a monkey and a pig, then I guess they ought to know better than I.
I didn’t.
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