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I am not a religious person in any way, but evolution is a joke, just take a look at the fossil record. The fossil record is incomplete at best.
If you truly follow the fossil record instead of having anthropologists fill in the blanks with “theories” then you will realize that human beings essentially just appeared one day out of nowhere.
Do we come from apes? Of course not. Do we share 95-98 percent of our DNA with them? Sure. But we also share 90% of our DNA with a banana. Does that mean we evolved from bananas?
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You obviously do not grasp the meaning of word 'theory' in this context. Read a dictionary and try again.
Also, you fail at biology. Please stfu.
Actually, it's 50% with a banana. And yes, we share a common ancestor with them. Also, do not taint the greatness of LA Confidential.
No, but it does mean we share a common ancestor with the banana tree. The evolutionary line leading to humans and the one leading to bananas diverged much longer ago than the lines leading to humans and modern apes, which explains why we are much more similar to an ape than to a banana plant. But ALL life on Earth is ultimately related.
So why, when we "fill those blanks with theories", can we afterwards go dig in rock of the right age and frequently find just what our theories said would be in those blanks?
And why do we share 100s of endogenous retroviruses in exactly homologous places in our genomes again?
And, yes, you come from apes Rolo. For a start, your mother was one.
We did not evolve from apes or bananas. That being said we ARE apes and we share common ancestors with other apes and bananas. The common ancestor with the apes is a little closer in time.
The best thing is that we don't need any fossils at all to have conclusive evidence in favor of evolution.
Rolo is obviously a stupid douchebag.
We EXPECT the fossil record to be incomplete. If it WERE complete, evolutionary theory would be SHOWN TO BE WRONG. We do not expect to ever complete the fossil record. We are, in fact, extremely surprised that the fossil record is as complete as it is, because of how difficult it is to make a fossil.
Does that mean we evolved from bananas?
We didn't evolve from bananas, and we didn't evolve from modern apes, either. We evolved from extinct animals that were neither ape nor human. And we have the fossils of them. One of them, a skull called ER1470, is such a mixture of ape and human that some major creationists say it's a human and others say it's an ape (none will admit it's half-way between the two). And one, Duane Gish, changed his mind over the course of a decade.
You clearly know nothing about how Science works, and are just adlibbing what you've heard.
Not religious? So if you don't believe in God or Evolution, I'd like to hear your thoughts on our origins. Aliens?
The fossil record is incomplete at best.
If you truly follow the fossil record instead of having anthropologists fill in the blanks with “theories” then you will realize that human beings essentially just appeared one day out of nowhere.
horray for irony
Of course the fossil record is incomplete, nitwit. The conditions for preserving a fossil are hard to come by, and the fact that it's over millions of years makes the chance of their destruction pretty high even in ideal situations. But it's still infinitely better than anything you have to offer.
But we also share 90% of our DNA with a banana.
50. It's 50%. And anthropologists are much more qualified to "fill-in-the-blanks" than, say, theoretical physicists.
The fossil record incomplete, you say?
I just ask because this seems like an odd complaint coming from the follower of a religion that is based upon a book that is so incomplete two
I have one simple question for you: If you are not a religious person, and do not believe in evolution, what is your explanation for life on earth?
And remember, you already said you werent religious, you cannot invoke a creator here.
"Does that mean we evolved from bananas?"
Short answer: no, with a "but". Long answer: yes, with a "maybe".
"Do we come from apes?"
We are apes, stupid one.
"I am not a religious person in any way,"
Rigggght, You and S.E. Cupp. Y'all just agree with their solid facts and evidence against science.
"But we also share 90% of our DNA with a banana."
Well, Ray Cumfart does. [/hyper-snark] X3
...oh, and didn't you know, Rolo? You die in the end. [/"Code Geass R2"] >:D
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