On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 2:45:15 -0500, Seppo Pietikainen wrote
(in message <c0n878$18vcik$1@ID-137900.news.uni-berlin.de>):
> Uncle Davey wrote:
>> news:cc7t20p2e38am89eluuongcepvh87hcqnj@4ax.com...
>>
>>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:31:15 +0000 (UTC), the following
>>> appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Uncle Davey"
>>> <noway@jose.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> <snowbirdRemoveThis@ThisToosnowbird.freeserve.co.uk>
>>
>>>
>>>>> ShortCheerer wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Ok, I dont believe in evolution but, for those of you who do i have a
>>>>
>>>> simple
>>>>
>>>>>> question: If we came from monkeys/apes/whatever you want to call
>>
>> them,
>>
>>>> where
>>>>
>>>>>> did the "monkeys" come from?
>>>
>>>>> Rodents, which came from reptiles which came from amphibians (IIRC)
>>>>> which can from fish. How far back do you want to go?
>>>
>>>> So primates come from rodents, now.
>>>> Good luck, digesting wood.
>>>
>>> If you go further back we also come from fish. Does that
>>> mean we should be able to breathe underwater? (And FWIW, the
>>> ancestors of primates probably derived from insectivores,
>>> not rodents, admittedly a *very* minor point.)
>>>
>>> AND BTW, just which rodents were you thinking of; you know,
>>> the ones which eat wood?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously I was thinking of beavers. There's hardly an hour goes by, and
>> all
>> that...
>>
>> Uncle Davey
>>
>>
>
> You believe that beavers eat wood?
>
That depends on how you define 'wood' and 'eat'.
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