[RobbyS]

Mortimer Adler once wrote a small book dealing dealing with the question: Do humans and animals differ by degree, or by kind? If we are talking about intelligence, then it seems that it is by kind. All the animal studies do show an enormous gap between the young of other species and human young. The first Darwinists out great stock in the recapitualiationist theory, which had our young more or less repeat the evolutionary trail. If we do, then that “memory is buried deep in our DNA. If we and the chimps have a common ancestor, we have no way of knowing what he was like, because he has literally never been found. Some have hypothesized a sudden leap, where in a short while a brutish population is replaced/exterminated by a rational one. But I note that most fossils hunters still cling to gradualism. Fact is, though, there is a lot of speculation about and little evidence of our ancestors. A lot of highfalutin intellectuals seem to have the need to prove that their ancestors were earth bound. They just don't like the implications of our ability to ponder matters that none of our earthly kin seem to have an inkling of.

[allmendream]

Australopithocine was an extraterrestrial?

Come on! What are the chances that two independent lines of life would form genetic DNA that is 98% the same?

There is a great deal of evidence of our ancestors from the last few million years.

There are only two explanations for why we and chimps are so similar, related by DNA changes that would correlate to us having a recent common ancestor some six to seven million years ago, and lo and behold three million years ago we find a very human like bipedal ape.

Just coincidence?

How would you explain the similar pattern of ERV insertions shared between humans and chimps, more similar between those two than chimps and gorillas.

Do you think chimps and gorillas shared a common ancestor? Or were they too extraterrestrials?