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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:28:15 PM EDT
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Because apes are apes and humans are humans.
The end. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:29:18 PM EDT
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Evolution take a long time.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:29:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:29:32 PM EDT
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Dear 4th grader, stay in school.
Love, Science |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:29:44 PM EDT
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Well. everyone knows the dinosaurs ate them all.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:34:04 PM EDT
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Because apes are apes and humans are humans. The end. This |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:36:20 PM EDT
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This will be fun to follow.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:36:34 PM EDT
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Interestingly enough... given the right (or wrong) circumstances, environment, and conditions, Humans could evolve back into something resembling an forest dwelling ape again. Given enough time and food-stamps, it is almost sure to happen.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:36:35 PM EDT
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In before the God Squad.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:37:25 PM EDT
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Evolution take a long time. And the Annunaki aliens quit coming here, so no one is here to accelerate the process. 
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:38:40 PM EDT
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How can this not have evolved into 2 pages yet?
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:41:05 PM EDT
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"Those creatures have been on their own lineage for 10 million years. You can't go back up that lineage and back down again." Why not? |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:41:10 PM EDT
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Dear 4th grader, stay in school. Love, Science Well said. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:41:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Dear 4th grader, stay in school. Love, Science |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:42:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryIt is fascinating to see this kind of skill in an ape, but it leads to the question, the chimp is able to quickly memorize strings of numbers, but at the expense of what? Speech? Fine motor skills? It's almost like autistic savants, who are able to perform incredible, but very, very narrow skills, like being able to count out prime numbers in sequence ad infinitum. However, they often fail spectacularly at simple tasks we take for granted every day. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:42:23 PM EDT
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Where is your God now, atheist?
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:42:44 PM EDT
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I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago.
I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:43:55 PM EDT
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Interestingly enough... given the right (or wrong) circumstances, environment, and conditions, Humans could evolve back into something resembling an forest dwelling ape again. Given enough time and food-stamps, it is almost sure to happen. 
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:44:15 PM EDT
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I'm certainly not "god squad" by any means, but that answer was pretty weak. It really doesn't address evolution, and he could have given very simple answers for it such as TIME (how long evolution takes) or that is how they did in fact evolve. He really doesn't answer the actual evolution part of the question at all. He basically went back to his primal instincts and tossed poop all over, hoping some of it would stick.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:44:18 PM EDT
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I've attacked myself with a flurry of facepalms.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:44:21 PM EDT
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There are still places on Earth where it makes sense to be a gorilla, chimpanzee, etc.
Humans, deprived of their clothing, weapons, and other inventions, could not survive in those places. We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but you are an ape. That is painfully obvious to anyone who has ever driven a vehicle in traffic. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:45:17 PM EDT
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Arguing evolution with most people is like playing chess with a pigeon.
No matter how good your opening move; the pigeon will strut around, shitting on the board and knocking over pieces, acting like it is winning. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:45:36 PM EDT
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There are still places on Earth where it makes sense to be a gorilla, chimpanzee, etc. Humans, deprived of their clothing, weapons, and other inventions, could not survive in those places. Yep. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:45:59 PM EDT
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I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. All the rest are FSA. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:46:15 PM EDT
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:46:49 PM EDT
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Obviously you've never been to New Orleans. Evolution is slow.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:47:42 PM EDT
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Interestingly enough... given the right (or wrong) circumstances, environment, and conditions, Humans could evolve back into something resembling an forest dwelling ape again. Given enough time and food-stamps, it is almost sure to happen.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:48:29 PM EDT
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yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:49:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Obviously you've never been to New Orleans. Evolution is slow. Well, I've never been to New Orleans (since I was a young child). But I've been to Oklahoma. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:49:51 PM EDT
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I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. because we killed off the competition. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:51:00 PM EDT
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Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:51:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In before the God Squad. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:51:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:52:02 PM EDT
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yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. I like you dude but you're wrong here. Take some biology courses. This is a 101 kind of a deal. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:52:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. The race isn't done yet. Maybe something rises and takes our place, maybe we start going backwards (been to a Walmart lately?), maybe there were intelligent species several times before but were taken out by whatever mechanism. Maybe we just got lucky with the domestication of the wolf/agriculture, it's hard to imagine we'd have made the gains we have without that pushing us along. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:53:10 PM EDT
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I think the answer is pretty simple--Nature is experimenting on us, and seeing how this whole "intelligence" thing works out. If it's successful, then more intelligent creatures will evolve.
As it is, I think the jury is still out about this whole "success" thing. Intelligence may not actually be a very good survival trait, over the long haul. Mama nature may well be cuing up the extermination machine as we speak. And, of course, there is nothing to say that we're the first intelligences to evolve here on earth, either. There could have been a bunch of past attempts at it, and we've just missed the signs of it all. I'd laugh my ass off if someone digs up signs of a sapient creature from back in the days of the dinosaurs, and we figure out that the whole Chicxulub thing was due to them mining the asteroids, and then losing control of one... The thing a lot of people fail to grasp is that we really don't have a solid, continuous historical record of life on this planet. It's more like a series of random snapshots, and we're trying to extrapolate a whole lot of shit from very limited and somewhat shaky evidence. There's plenty of room in the fossil record for there to shoehorn in the entirety of human history from Lucy forward to today, and we'd never know. How much of human history would be evident, after a million or so years...? Hell, we would probably have trouble finding signs we were here after the next major ice age. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:53:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:55:37 PM EDT
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Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:56:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. No, they evolved too. Each evolutionary path is specific to what assists the survival of that particular species. Most species do pretty well without using tools. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:58:50 PM EDT
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Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? There is an abundance of evidence. Look it up for yourself. Here's one of my favorites:
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Posted: 6/27/2016 4:59:22 PM EDT
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Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Evolution take a long time. yup, so long that it hasn't even happened yet. It's a religion. Based completely off a belief for which there is no hard evidence. None. But go ahead and believe there is. Uhhhh there is a ton of evidence for evolution, like a crazy large amount. Its pretty basic stuff dude, research into yourself with a open mind. Awesome answer since it is so basic can you provide us with some examples ? Basically any elementary level biology book should have a decent teaching, but if you want to get into something more meaty here are some very good resources from various scientific institutions. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_01 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/evolution/basics.htm |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:00:09 PM EDT
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Because that's not how any of this works.
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:00:38 PM EDT
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The race isn't done yet. Maybe something rises and takes our place, maybe we start going backwards (been to a Walmart lately?), maybe there were intelligent species several times before but were taken out by whatever mechanism. Maybe we just got lucky with the domestication of the wolf/agriculture, it's hard to imagine we'd have made the gains we have without that pushing us along. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. The race isn't done yet. Maybe something rises and takes our place, maybe we start going backwards (been to a Walmart lately?), maybe there were intelligent species several times before but were taken out by whatever mechanism. Maybe we just got lucky with the domestication of the wolf/agriculture, it's hard to imagine we'd have made the gains we have without that pushing us along. The thought has crossed my mind before that we may not be the first hyper-intelligent species to live on this planet. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:00:44 PM EDT
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I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. And if there had been two of these species? What would have happened then? What happened to the great wolves that competed with us for meat? What happened to the buffalo herds that competed with us for space? What happened to the Neanderthals? (Hint on this one - humans have always been horny bastards.) Yeah. Any two intelligent species sharing the same environment will fight to extinction, or fuck each other into the same gene pool. [edit]Really, any two species sharing the same ecological niche in the same geographical area will have those two possible outcomes.[/edit] |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:01:28 PM EDT
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Have you looked closely at the latest crop of Democrats? |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:01:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I always did think it was strange that of all the millions and millions of species that have lived on earth, only one evolved into building skyscrapers, mapping DNA, exploring space, etc. The other 99.9999999% are still the same dumbass animals they were hundreds/thousands/millions of years ago. I'm not coming from a religious point of view here, I've just never heard a solid explanation of why we have evolved so much further than every other species. Do you really think two equally intelligent species could evolve together? That would be the surprising part. If pigs learned to make guns and started killing us, pigs would be annihilated by humans. That is why there aren't any other humans. We killed them. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:02:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, I've never been to New Orleans (since I was a young child). But I've been to Oklahoma. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Obviously you've never been to New Orleans. Evolution is slow. Well, I've never been to New Orleans (since I was a young child). But I've been to Oklahoma. But I really don't remember. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:05:05 PM EDT
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I'm certainly not "god squad" by any means, but that answer was pretty weak. It really doesn't address evolution, and he could have given very simple answers for it such as TIME (how long evolution takes) or that is how they did in fact evolve. He really doesn't answer the actual evolution part of the question at all. He basically went back to his primal instincts and tossed poop all over, hoping some of it would stick. Once humans started building houses and making medicine, our evolution has been changed forever. We are no longer a product of nature. At least it will be really hard for nature to change us. Since we are the dominate species and we have nukes, it is unlikely we will be toppled by any other species, unless it is a virus or bacteria. |
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Posted: 6/27/2016 5:05:26 PM EDT
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I've attacked myself with a flurry of face palms. 
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