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Subject: Re: Come from monkeys?
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:39:21 +0000 (UTC)
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> 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'.
>
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could define wood?
Uncle Davey
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