RufusAtticus

Isn't evolution great!

NZAmoeba

I'm gonna guess they're a branch off bacteria... large animals feed off the planet to grow and breed, virus's feed off large animals so they they can breed.

Strawman, mammals and lizards are pretty much completely seperate tree's, let alone distant branches.


we DO see that today, just show him all the different dog breeds, ALL descended from wild wolves, which were domesticated then went through selective breeding to have a VAST variety of breeds. Compare the St. Bernard to a Beagle... suddenly comparing a Chimp to a Human doesn't seem that far fetched

2 million years ago there was a now extinct species of ape living happily in africa. Then due to environmental changes, one section was cut off and lost its trees. This ape had to learn to survive on the ground, while its cousins were still happy in trees off in the distance. Those that were able to stand upright could spot predators easier and make a break for it. They also learned that using sticks and rocks could help defend them despite their lack of claws. This species learned to follow herds of animals which it could hunt with its new-found tools. It lived in complex social groups for its own survival. Two million years later it has wandered around the planet, and its key to its dominance was that it was able to shape the environment and use tools to its own needs, the first species to ever do such a thing. Doesn't sound too far fetched to me.

Secular Pinoy

Amen to that! As ole Chuck had written... There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Sniffles... it always bring tears to my eyes.

crocodile deathroll

Yes show them that and tell them "I prefer the bony evidence of evolutionists than the phony evidence of creationists"

Duvenoy

Can I borrow that?

doov