[umbra]

The evolution arguement sounds like a huge strech.

[isom35]

tonights quiz question: in planet of the apes (the heston version) what is the first word you hear an ape say?

[kayak]

APES COULD SPEAK!

Gee, I knew this already. Just turn on your tv set and look at the talking heads there all day .... proof positive!

[freethinkingman]

Yet another thing that science and namely "evolution" cannot explain, could it be intelligence was "designed" in one species and not another?

[Trueblackman]

Well this explain Terry McAuffle Tom Daschle Hillary and Bill Clinton Al Gore and Dicky Gephardt. We need to send a gift basket of fruit to each!!!

[IronJack]

This is old news. Didn't you watch the Democratic convention?

[eno_]

I bet if they could be genetically modified to put off puberty until an older age, they could unlock speech in apes. Very scary stuff. We really could make a "subhuman" race.

[wildconservatism]

Oh no! Now they're going to be covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, too!

[JRandomFreeper]

Yes. His name is Dewayne and he's my former brother-in-law. Talk about a knuckle dragger...

/john

[Billthedrill]

Speak? Heck, they can vote. Some of them appear to have a problem with dimpled chads, though...

[FreePaul]

Georgia? No they weren't apes. Just some of the locals who could make sounds that sounded like speach. Given more time evolution can improve on this.

[billybudd]

whose one of the components is called the Brockman 44 zone

Sheesh. If you're going to write, do it well. This phrase is like a big stain on an otherwise nice piece of clothing.

[Maceman]

As my yiddishe grandmother would have said: "So vy they don't say something?"

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

So what. It's not speaking that makes us intelligent it is reasoning.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[gunshy]

I thought the first sub-humans to speak were bill and hillary clinton.

[wayne_shrugged]

APES COULD SPEAK!

What do you mean, "Apes *COULD* speak?"

Apes *DO* speak -- we had one as x42 and its mate, the current infamous senator, the "I'm-melting," don't-look-into-my-eyes-except-through-a-mirror, Laura-Bush-is-getting-too-much-publicity-on-the-oppression-of-Afghani-women, I-want-to-be-the-first-so-called-female-president-of-the-US, black-panther-sympathizing, Communist-rag-doll Hitlery.

[Rain-maker]

Methinks the professors were smoking left-handed cigarettes while watching the new "Planet of the Apes" DVD last weekend.
Any chance these authors got a stake in 20th Century Fox Productions?...LOL

[GOPJ]

Funny how we can't talk with those we evolved with but think we could speak to aliens from a distant world.

[Redcloak]

Do great apes have a hyoid bone? If not, that might explain why they haven't got a larger Brockman 44 Zone. Why would one have a more developed zone 44 if they didn't have a hyoid bone?

Conversely, why would one develop a hyoid bone if they didn't have a more developed zone 44?

[F16Fighter]

It will become one more contribution to the evolution theory.

Translation: Instead of the creation of 'Hamlet' by one-trillion monkeys typing for one-trillion years, now subtract 3 monkeys and 20 minute from the equation...