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"Of course, there is no proof of evolution and....oh."

Science: Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal

Freshly Exhumed writes "Add another bonus point for the
Darwinians/evolutionists. A macaque at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan,
Israel has recovered from a near-fatal illness in an unusual way: she has
switched exclusively to walking on her hind legs. Given theories of human
history that stress the effect of disease on events and changes, as in
William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples, what if an illness was the cause
of the shift to bipedal motion by our evolutionary ancestors, and rote
imitation by offspring or another set of circumstances locked it in? No
matter, this could be a fascinating study of the macaque's altered brain
functions."

[URL]http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2004/07/21/monkey_israel040721.html[/URL]

On another note, I couldn't help noticing that one of the possible given reasons was "brain damage".

Which kind of says it all really.

Ant wrote:
> Ah, wonderful!
>
> Thanks to this obviously near-human Macaque, I now realise that my
> religion is totally pointless and so I shall completely forget my
> strong faith and everything God has ever done for me! Instead, I
> shall venture forth into the masses and teach the forgotten and the
> sinful the ways of the Macaque!

Let's all be petty and miss the point!

Who's for ignoring the fact that this is used to attack fundamentalist Christianity's refusal to acknowledge evolution and not the whole of Christianity itself? I know I am.

Ah, wonderful!

Thanks to this obviously near-human Macaque, I now realise that my religion is totally pointless and so I shall completely forget my strong faith and everything God has ever done for me! Instead, I shall venture forth into the masses and teach the forgotten and the sinful the ways of the Macaque!


{:)

Oh.My.God.Dess. :P lol

You lot still going after Forest Fan?

Ah yes, God deciding our free will is funny.

Forest Fan wrote:
> Azul wrote:
> I would indeed like to see FF's opinion on this...
>
> To what specific point exactly Azul?

Speaking personally, I'd quite like to know how you can reconcile your opinion that there is no physical proof for evolution. After all, you've constantly avoided acknowledging that type of fish in Central America that is on the cusp of evolutionary change; it'd be nice to see if you're consistent and try and pretend that this hasn't happened too.

Oh, and if you could answer the numerous other questions too? By my last count, your current list of topics you're avoiding after showing an initial interest in are;

please address my post to you in the thread that deals with the Tower of Babel? Because you see, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the Tower had ANYTHING to do with religion. All we have is your interpretation of the Bible which no-one else agrees with.

Then could you perhaps explain why you think you have the right to interpret the bible according to your own whims when you've previously insisted everyone must take it literally.

Perhaps after that, you can look at Pandaemoniums question about free will, and show enough courage to actually answer him without twisting and turning and generally being evasive.

Finally, once all that is done, I was hoping you'd grow some balls, show a little humility, and answer the 20 questions I asked you.

Azul wrote:
> I would indeed like to see FF's opinion on this...

To what specific point exactly Azul?

Perhaps she spent too much time in that clinic with the doctors...


monkey see, monkey do? :-)

I've never thought of it this way, though. We always seem to say that yeah, we evolved etc.
But I've not really thought of how it still goes on around us.

And I wonder if the whole near-death thing was like part of some, I dunno, "metamorphisis" for want of a better word.
If you get what I mean at all.

Funky monkey.