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From: Seppo Pietikainen <s.pietikainen@kolumbus.fi>
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Subject: Re: Come from monkeys?
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:30:13 +0000 (UTC)
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Uncle Davey wrote:
>
>>Uncle Davey wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>Seppo P.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>They dam well do.
>>>
>>>Uncle Davey
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Like us humans eat porcelain platters?
>>
>>Seppo P.
>>
>
>
> I hope your mother doesn't know you do that.
>
> Mine doesn't even like it when I lick the plate clean.
>
> She says she didn't bring me up to do that.
>
> But she does make these fantastic sauces. My wife also makes them, but she
> only sees my mother occasionally, and has not yet learned how to make the
> full set.
>
> She (ie. my mother) also says, she hopes I don't do that at business
> lunches.
>
> Well, of course I don't. I know how to behave if money is at stake, believe
> you me.
>
> Uncle Davey
>
>
I think you missed that whoosing sound way above your head...
Seppo P.
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