RE: Dumbass Pwnage
May 3, 2011 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2011 at 5:14 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
(May 3, 2011 at 5:04 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Exactly. Evolution isn't a chain with a monkey at one end and a human at the other. The only people who use the "missing link" strawman are creationists trying to disprove evolution. They actually believe that until we produce a half-man, half-monkey skeleton, then there can be no proof of the missing link. And even if we did produce some kind of half-man, half-monkey skeleton, they'd claim that it was a forgery.
The funny thing is that we have produced half man / half ape looking fossils before, but the Creationists refuse to consider them as such. They either say "That is 100% monkey" or "that is 100% man".
Then again, humans ARE apes, so to ask for a "half man/half ape" is never going to happen. We can, however, produce fossils of COMMON ANCESTORS that have that appearance.
Then again, deduction on fossil bones alone is not enough to make a good placement on the family tree. Some fossils will sit there with lots of speculation until more evidence is discovered across fields. the more fields that are in agreement, the more exacting the placement in the family tree.
As I have said before, biology students, please go gentle on me.. I am being short and general in this discussion.
