[JRios1968]

It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced humanity's origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.

Most Democrats never evolved beyond that.

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Only a few centimetres long, Pikaia was a slender eel-like animal with a pair of small antennae-like structures at the front of its tiny head. Possession of muscle blocks and a notochord suggest that this rare fossil belongs among the chordates, the group that includes fish, frogs, and humans.
Photograph by: Courtesy , J.B.Caron/Royal Ontario Museum

Seeds of a spine? Clearly not the ancestor of modern republican congresscritters

[Georgia Girl 2]

“It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced humanity’s origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.”

Uh no.

[MestaMachine]

Arrakis, here we come! Or is it Arrakis, from thence we comed?

[knarf]

CALGARY — It seems an inglorious beginning, but some scientists are now convinced Congressional Republican’s origins can be traced to an ancient, flat, fishlike worm.

A team of researchers subjected the 505-million-year-old Burgess shale fossils of Pikaia gracilens to the latest technology and found evidence that could settle a decades-long debate about the primitive species.

Notably, that they had the seeds of a spine.

[OldNavyVet]

All known living things are genetically related ... and that includes bacteria.

From page 284 of Steve Jones' modern update of Darwin's "Origin of Species" and titled "Darwin's Ghost," we have ...

"One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years."

[Jan_Sobieski]

If only we can invent a genesis that does not involve accountability to an omnipotent, omniscient, moral creator, then we can live as we like. This is why John Lennon wrote his song, "Imagine".

[bunkerhill7]

I have millions of little swimming worms.

[ArrogantBustard]

There's another group of "experts" that thinks we're all descended from clams.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

[Ecliptic]

Evolution is only a theory.
God said He took a rib from Adam and formed Eve. Every human since then is a descendent of Eve. So, humans did not evolve from a worm or apes or anything else.

[Persevero]

Yes, yes, it’s always something ridiculous. A chimp, a worm, an amoeba.

I know better.

[pallis]

I could never muster up enough faith to believe in evolution. My hat is off to the true believers of that religion. If only more Christians could have that kind of faith....

[caveat emptor]

axolotls

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This thread is begging for a Helen Thomas pic.

[Portcall24]

The Killer Angels by Michael Sheera
At Gettysburg before the charge:
“…While ago we sat around a fire, talked on Darwin. Evolution. You read about it?”
“Ah?”
“Charles Darwin. Theory of Evolution.”
“Can’t say that I have. There are so many things rattling about.”
“Theory that claims that men are descended from apes.”
“Oh that. Oh yes. Well I’ve heard—distastefully—of that.”
“Well. We were talking on that. Finally agreed that Darwin was probably right. Then one fella said, with great dignity he said, Well, maybe you are come from an ape and maybe I am come from, an ape, but General Lee, he didn’t come from an ape.’ “

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Earlier related (non-duplicate) thread:

Inglorious beginnings: Experts trace humanity's origins to ancient worm

I'm NOT complaining about a duplicate thread, just adding a cross reference...