On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:51:08 +0000 (UTC), the following
appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Uncle Davey"
<noway@jose.com>:
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>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>:
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><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.
That's about what I thought. The only problem is that
beavers don't eat wood.
>There's hardly an hour goes by, and all
>that...
Different beavers; sorry. And *they* don't eat wood, either.
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