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To: EveningStar

My whole theory about evolution is although most mammals, fish and whatnot have two eyes, legs, arms, and similar gentialia, there is no way to prove that any of these beings are connected unless you were there to witness it.

Sure you can do DNA tests and find similarities, but in the end it all comes down to having humans suddenly appearing out of seemingly nowhere with these incredible inventive genius minds.

It`s like having dolphins and all of a sudden there is this mutation of dolphins that can understand and invent math and physics, it just doesn`t happen, it`s impossible. It`s never happened in any species, there is no evidence it ever happened other than humans.

The primates that are around today, Gorillas, Chimps, Orangutans, seem to have all survived when Cro-magnon, Neaderthals have not yet Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals were supposedly smarter than all those primates yet they died off.

Maybe I`m writing a foolish post, but to make it brief, it seems quite impossible to me that humans could "evolve" from all that. It just doesn`t happen. If it did, we would have quite a number of other species with the mental abilities of humans. Bears, cats, dogs all have claws.. Yet only humans have this mental ability.

You would think at LEAST one other species would have the same, but no. None exist.


20 posted on 03/31/2007 2:15:49 PM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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To: Screamname
Sure you can do DNA tests and find similarities, but in the end it all comes down to having humans suddenly appearing out of seemingly nowhere with these incredible inventive genius minds.

I think it's a matter of -- for lack of a better term -- a tipping point. Once the complexity of the brain a certain group of primates reached a certain point, a whole range of mental abilities -- including, perhaps, something to do with the soul -- developed.

49 posted on 03/31/2007 3:00:19 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian (WWGD -- What would Groucho do?)
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To: Screamname

"The primates that are around today, Gorillas, Chimps, Orangutans, seem to have all survived when Cro-magnon, Neaderthals have not yet Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals were supposedly smarter than all those primates yet they died off."

And we're supposed to believe that only one tribe of apes started evolving after migrating out of the woods of Africa and into the grasslands hundreds of millions of years ago. And of course, this process never repeated itself at a later point in time. In reality, the process should be ongoing. We should see transitional Ape-Like creatures today from Apes that migrated to grasslands, say, 10 million years ago. At some point over the course of hundreds of millions of years the process would repeat itself at a later point in time.


55 posted on 03/31/2007 3:10:30 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: Screamname
You would think at LEAST one other species would have the same, but no. None exist.

They have, but the humans were smart enough to eliminate them.

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79 posted on 03/31/2007 3:43:26 PM PDT by Erasmus (This tagline on sabbatical.)
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To: Screamname; Eaker
The primates that are around today, Gorillas, Chimps, Orangutans, seem to have all survived when Cro-magnon, Neaderthals have not

You reckon we oughta wear name tags or something?

188 posted on 03/31/2007 6:56:34 PM PDT by humblegunner (?)
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To: Screamname

The primates that are around today, Gorillas, Chimps, Orangutans, seem to have all survived when Cro-magnon, Neaderthals have not yet Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals were supposedly smarter than all those primates yet they died off.

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As a matter of fact, Cro-Magnons are considered to be early examples of Homo Sapiens-Sapiens (modern man) and not some extinct species. Neanderthal skulls show a larger brain volume than modern humans, of course nobody can say what their IQ was.


338 posted on 04/01/2007 3:11:29 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
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