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From: Patrick James <patjames@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Come from monkeys?
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:04:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 6:15:55 -0500, Jerzy Jakubowski wrote
(in message <b9b3de8.0402160317.55dcc794@posting.google.com>):
> Patrick James <patjames@newsguy.com> wrote in message
> news:<0001HW.BC54F360005FEBBBF02845B0@enews.newsguy.com>...
>> 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.
>
> I never said they did.
You said 'rodents' in general eat wood. Woodchucks are rodents. And you
clearly know the original of the 'How much wood' line. You were trying to
imply that woodchucks could, sorta, kinda, eat wood. They can't.
>
> Why don't you read what I wrote instead of trying to set up a straw man
> argument?
oh, I read it. It said "Uncle Davey is a twit" in 24-point type.
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