why
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries> are getting weak?
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are> always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
Lame blog I know, but I am super busy at work!!
posted by Evil Genius @ 3:21 PM
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We didn't descend from the apes; rather, we and the apes both descended from a common anscestor.
Species evolve to fit an evolutionary niche. Transitional stanges would not survive because they are out-competed for filling that nitch by their descendants -- that's what makes them "transitional". We do find the fossilized remains of these transitional species.
In a sense, though, there are in-between species. The great apes are like half-monkey half-humans, in the sense that our common ancestor branched off a lot more recently than the monkey/human ancestor. There's a kind of european bird of which those in eastern europe cannot mate with those of western europe, so they're thus two different species, but those in central europe can mate with both, clearly a transition in speciation.
Really, though, scientists have been studying this for more than 100 years, doing rigorous research that could fill libraries, and evolution has become a foundation of all biology and medicine. Do you really think that a simplistic argument like this is something they haven't thought about before? There are books and books on the subject. Science, unlike other subjects, can’t just give opinions -- they have to prove it.
Remember too that evolution is not opposed to religion. The Catholic church accepts evolution. The evidence is so overwhelming, that dismissing evolution is like saying the world is flat. Remember, the church once set people on fire for saying the earth goes around the sun (something which must have also seemed silly at the time–-obviously the sun goes around the earth!). Have some humility about fallable human ability to interpret the Bible, or you will find yourself in the same ridiculous place.
Or loving summer but not being able to survive without AC.
I think it would be great for them to teach Intelligent Design in the classroom.... in a class called 'Religions of the World' or 'Philosophies of Life' or 'Metaphysics' - not science class.
there are still apes walking around - we have one for president! :-p
i wanna know WHY i have glasses to see my computer screen better but sometimes (and only sometimes!) i find myself looking over them. wat the heck is that?!
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