It's funny that anti-evolutionists draw the line at being related to apes.

[cthulu2016]

Dude... you are related to carrots! Everything with DNA is related.


And the idea that humans are metaphysically special gets funnier the longer you think about it.

Let's say that for the first time, evolution spits out a species capable of creating creation myths. And lets say that some of the creation myths those creatures come up say that the whole universe exists in reference to one, and only one species. And that one, and only one species really matters to the creator of everything.

I wonder which species they would pick?

The first species to invent metaphysics gets to consider itself metaphysically special. That's the prize.

[Faygo Kid]

1. You're right. But Jesus DID walk with dinosaurs.

Picture proves it. Rode 'em, too.

Not sure if he ever rode carrots. Probably munched them, though.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

5. Do you have a copy of that one with the Holy Spirit's Autograph?

My dad does continuing ed conferences for Catholic Deacons and I think that would make for a good door prize.

[Cleita]

2. You think that's bad. Back when anthropologists were digging up homo habilis in

Africa, I was reading an article about it in the newspaper in the lunch room at work. I brought it up to a group sitting at my table. A co-worker from Alabama, got really hot under the collar and proclaimed, there was no way his ancestors came from Africa. I mean he really got upset. The rest of us were kind of dumbfounded at his reaction. It's really deep seated racism and the ape thing is about the out of Africa hypothesis, just pure racism, but coded this time, not so obviously blatant so as not to appear so racist. Of course they all came from Nordic Adam and Eve. Assholes!

[jody]

3. How can one "invent metaphysics"? nt

[morningglory]

4. If you look at a squirrel's heel bone (calcaneus) is almost identical to an elephant's heel bone.

It has to make you wonder if we all might be related (sarcasm). The reason fundamentalists reject evolution in this way is the same reason they are disgusted by Obama "talking down to us". They perceive he is talking down to us because they are afraid they might be stupid. I love having a smart president. Bush was a tremendous embarrassment on the world stage. I want my president to be a lot smarter than me.

[mmonk]

6. They are just embarassed apes show them up intellectually.

[hunter]

7. This planet was created as an incubator for beetle species.

"The order Coleoptera includes more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetles

The Creator's gonna be pissed when he comes back and see's what we've done to the place.