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 The Doctor to All 
 Re: [OT News] Laser Could Rip a Hole in  
 18 Dec 12 14:14:04 
 
From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)

In article <2ca3f994-89e7-4d42-94c0-64826e3e15b7@17g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
solar penguin   wrote:
>
>
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> solar penguin   wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >The Doctor wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article <636160ae-b2a2-4510-952e-78e9e72f9f55@c16g2000y
i.googlegroups.com>,
>> >> solar penguin   wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >The Doctor wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> In article <289sc8h1emhicfj9sor756d6fes8uji3v3@4ax.com>,
>> >> >> John Fleming   wrote:
>> >> >> >[Default] On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:45:58 -0800 (PST), while chained to
a
>> >> >> >desk in the scriptorium solar penguin 
wrote:
>> >> >> >> $The Doctor wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> In article ,
>> >> >> >> $> solar penguin   wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >The Doctor wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >> In article <1896285434377311926.708428bclark-e
.co.nz@free.teranews.com>,
>> >> >> >> $> >> Brian   wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >> >The Doctor  wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >> >> In article ,
>> >> >> >> $> >> >> John Fleming   wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> [Default] On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:54:05 -0000, while
chained to a desk
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> in the scriptorium "Stephen Wilson"
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>  wrote:
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $"Brian"  wrote in message
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $news:1193592277376480872.596831bclark-es
co.nz@free.teranews.com...
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> They say that Man evolved from Apes but I don't
see any half and and
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> half
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>> man in the world.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>> There were some, but it was millions of years ago.
If you want to see
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>> some
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>> now, just watch WWE* "wrestling".   ;-)
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>> * Or whatever they've yet again changed it to.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $> But if all the apes changed into men then there
would be no apes in the
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $> world.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $You still haven't really grasped the concept.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $Apes didn't change into men. Apes and men are more
like cousins. We share a
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $common ancestor.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> For our closest cousins, the chimpanzees, evidence
suggests the last
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> common ancestor existed about 5 million to 7 million
years
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> ago.Allowing about 20 years between generations, that is
250,000 to
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> 350,000 generations ago.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> Our common ancestor with bonobos is probably just as far
back, and our
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> common ancestor with gorillas is further back still.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $Even then, evolution does not propose that all members
of one group evolve
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $into another. If a mutation provides a good outcome,
that gene is propagated
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $to the next generation. So a small group carries the
mutation, but the rest
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $of the group does not. Evolution is an on-going
process of trial and error.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>>> $Apes remain a part of it, as do we and all other life
on earth.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >> Primate and human might be comparable but it is doubtful
>> >> >> >> $> >> >> that humans evolved from apes.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >
>> >> >> >> $> >> >I agree that we don't come from apes. Someone thinks to
himself as apes
>> >> >> >> $> >> >look similar to humans then maybe we evolved from apes.
Apes are apes and
>> >> >> >> $> >> >humans are humans just as fish and birds are different.
>> >> >> >> $> >> >
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>
>> >> >> >> $> >> >>> --
>> >> >> >> $> >> >
>> >> >> >> $> >>
>> >> >> >> $> >> The most absurd argument for evolution:  birds are now the
remnant of
>> >> >> >> $> >> dinosaurs.
>> >> >> >> $> >> --
>> >> >> >> $> >
>> >> >> >> $> >Why is that absurd?  Give just one good reason why birds
couldn't be
>> >> >> >> $> >the descendants of dinosaurs.  (Hint: your explanation should
take
>> >> >> >> $> >Archaeopteryx into account.)
>> >> >> >> $> >
>> >> >> >> $>
>> >> >> >> $> crows descended from dinosaurs?  Robins? Magpies?
>> >> >> >> $> --
>> >> >> >> $
>> >> >> >> $Yes, that's right.
>> >> >> >> $
>> >> >> >> $Have you got _any_ evidence that they didn't?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Of course he doesn't.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >The closest he probably gets was a trip to the Royal Alberta Museum,
>> >> >> >where they have a T. Rex and a Stegasaurus on display.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Of course, those are at the larger end of the dinosaur spectrum of
>> >> >> >sizes, and it doesn't cross his mind there are some really small
>> >> >> >dinosaurs as well.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Oh, and while he is trying to explain Archaeopteryx, he'll also have
>> >> >> >to explain the quill knobs on a velociraptor skeleton found in
>> >> >> >Mongolia.
>> >> >> >--
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> How about a Pterodatyl turning into a bird?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> A T.Rex into a bird?  LOL!!
>> >> >> --
>> >> >
>> >> >No, of course not a T. Rex into a bird.  That would be silly.  The T.
>> >> >Rex didn't evolve until near the end of the dinosaurs' era, after the
>> >> >first birds had _already_ evolved.
>> >> >
>> >> >Maybe you really _do_ think time goes backwards...?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Forwards and the statement of dinosaurs evolving into birds
>> >> is high absurdity that Red Dwarf does a good job of it!
>> >> --
>> >
>> >A goose job?  Yes, geese evolved from dinosaurs, just like all birds.
>> >
>> >I'm not sure what the rest of your sentence is supposed to mean.
>> >
>>
>> Fixed my mistake sp.
>> --
>
>I'm still not sure what that's supposed to mean.  Are you saying that
>just because something is mentioned in a sitcom, it can't really
>exist?  I guess Dad's Army means there was no World War 2 then!
>

The other way around:  There was a WWII but Dad' Army
is historical comedy fiction.
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