To believe in evolution, you must believe that your family tree includes monkeys, fish, and rocks. Many evolutionists believed that after Earth randomly formed by itself out of nothing, it rained on rocks for millions/billions of years, which somehow caused inanimate matter to give birth to a single-celled organism. Other evolutionists believe the top of their family tree is nitrogen, and still others, water! They still are not quite sure what to believe!
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OK, the monkey in the TV show Monkey that came from a rock that cracked open that came from the heavens is not a common ancestor we share with other primates.
I see idiots, I don't see evolution!
According to the Bible, it's a handful of dirt and a guy's rib. According to the Australian aborigines, they were carved out of bundles of animal parts by the eternal ancestors. The Chinese say it was the fleas on Pan Gu's body. The Bantu say mankind was vomited up by Bumba. Take your pick: evolution, dirt, animal parts, fleas or puke.
As I do my family tree, I hope to eventually get back to apes, as a human I am an ape, not a monkey. With a lot of luck, I could trace my roots back to fish, but I may also win the lottery. I don't expect to get back to a rock, as evolution doesn't work that way! however, rock has made four Beatles, and the Monkees as well!
humans share a family tree with other animals? ridiculous! if that were the case, they'd use animals for testing human medicines, and use animals for comparative anatomy, and use animals for surgical practice before moving on to humans. heck, they could use animal parts IN humans ...
*whisper, whisper*
what? oh. nevermind
Julian:
I pulled the reference...
"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heavens sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the World". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"
Wouldn't it be quicker to just have a single entry for their entire website?
it rained on rocks for millions/billions of years, which somehow caused inanimate matter to give birth to a single-celled organism
A better attempt than most fundamentalists, but you still left out a few stages.
Rocks + Rain Erosion + A long fucking time -> Aqueous Mineral soup
Aqueous Minerals + Energy + A long fucking time -> More complicated organic substances, including amino acids, etc. - See Miller Urey experiment
Organic substances + More Energy + A long fucking time -> self replicating molecules (remember, it only takes one to come together by chance on the entire surface of the planet to quickly make loads more)
Self-replicating processes + A long fucking time + varying conditions -> mutation/variation & different self-replicating processes
After all those stages, then you stand a chance of getting cellular life.
Earth did not randomly form itself, it formed due to phsyical forces which are well understood.
And rocks did not "give birth" to single celled organisms, first non living organic molecules arose, and then a self-replicating molecule arose, which replicated itself and eventually after many many replications mutated to be able to use some of the organic matter around it to build a primiative membrane around itself for protection. And that was the first proto-cell, which over many many years gave rise to what we would recognize as true single-celled organisms, and eventually those cells began to live in colonies and those colonies devolped into unified multicelluar organisms.
Spoon wrote:
"One thing I find fascinating about this site is that the author is unwilling to publish his name on it. Why are you scared to acnogledge your work? Do you realize that you are typing up utter drivel?" Certain parts of the page make me suspect that it was written by Ted Holden.
Consider this gem:
"1) So... fish just sprout legs out of convenience, huh? Sounds like some kind of crazy Harry Potter movie. I wonder how many generations of fish flopping up onto land and dying it took before they decided to sprout legs and grow lungs. I bet that if such a transformation did occur, the intermediary species would be quite hindered, having half-grown legs that impeded its ability to swim while not being able to walk yet."
This is a classic case of the all-or-nothing fallacy, which has Ted Holden written all over it.
OK, the monkey in the TV show Monkey that came from a rock that cracked open that came from the heavens is not a common ancestor we share with other primates.
Nifty as that would be. Imagine having an extending cluestaff, for example. ^^
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life
.but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.”
-Chuck Easttom
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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