On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 9:39:21 -0500, Uncle Davey wrote
(in message <c0o0fm$5nl$1@pita.alt.net>):
>
> news:0001HW.BC54CEC2005756BAF02845B0@enews.newsguy.com...
>> 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?
Woodchucks don't eat wood.
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