The idea of people and trees being related is stupid because there is no scientific, empirical evidence that supports it. Are there fossils that bear aspects of human beings and non-living things, like rocks and trees? It's bad enough to say that humans evolved from other living creatures, but to say that living creatures and inanimate objects evolved from the same unicellular organism....? True evidence, please?
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non-living things, like rocks and trees
The Ents would like a word with you.
Seriously though, trees are alive. Idiot.
Er, Ray's right on one level on this one, biblically speaking trees aren't alive.'The life is in the blood' as Leviticus says, not in the sap. If it doesn't bleed, it's not alive.
Yeah, Ray, you've almost grasped it. You're descended from a rock on your father's side and a Ford Edsel on your mother's. And yet you still insist on eating bananas, you crazy chimp!
Well considering all living things on earth are made up of the same genetic base pairs in their DNA (I'm no biologist but I think adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine are the base pairs...?) that's pretty strong evidence that we're all related to some degree.
mmmm.... plants breathe, procreate, grow, and some of them even move and are carnivorous. yeah, I can totally see how you'd confuse them for inanimate objects
*facepalm*
"Are there fossils that bear aspects of human beings and non-living things, like rocks and trees?"
Holy fucking failure, Batman!
"Are there fossils that bear aspects of human beings and non-living things, like rocks and trees?"
And yet, according to the Bible, your great sky-wizard took clay (basically rocks that were worn to dust, and water added) and made the first human from this substance? In that case, we'd be silicon-based lifeforms. If that's so, explain how all living things are CARBON-based lifeforms then? That includes TREES.
The evidence is there, with the internet it's accesable to anyone who wants to actually know, from laymans terms to the full, you need a PHD to begin to understand.
This act that evolution has no evidence is ridiculous, especially since it comes from people with a belief that actually has none
"non-living things, like rocks and trees?"
Trees are alive, erikloza not so much.
We really need to exterminate these idiots at an early age. We could call it Most Children Left Behind.
No one claims we are related to rocks. No one .
We are related, very distantly, to trees. Which are living things. We're more closely related to fungi than we are to plants. The evidence for common ancestry is the fact that all living things use the same genetic code. And using this genetic code we can create a family tree of organisms alive today so that we can trace when the most recent common ancestor of any two extant organisms lived. This creates a sort of nested hierarchy that one would expect to see if evolution were true.
What do you want me to show you as evidence? Would you like me to explain the principle of common ancestry? Do you want me to explain how molecular clocks work? Do you want me to draw you a phylogenetic tree? What sort of evidence do you want me to show you precisely?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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