On 12/28/2011 1:18 AM, Warp wrote:
> Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcablecom>  wrote:
>> On 12/27/2011 4:55 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>> Some questions earned the pinnacle status of double-drink question.  Examples:
>>> "Why do atheists come to the Religion section?"  "Why do Catholics worship
>>> Mary?"  "If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?"  That last
>>> question really belongs in the Biology room, but young-Earth creationists aren't
>>> known for keeping their domains straight.  Bottoms up twice!
>>>
>> Yeah, its right up there in the logic level with, "If motorcycles where
>> based on bicycles, why are their still bicycles?", and similar
>> stupidities. Not just wrong category, but just.. like why they hell not?
>> Just because some of them got smarter meant that somehow the original
>> niche they filled disappeared? Brainless...
>
>    It's actually it's wronger than that. According to cladistics(*) humans
> did not "evolve from monkeys". Instead, humans and monkeys have a common
> ancestor species. This ancestor species probably looked more like a monkey
> than a human, but was still relatively different from either.
>
Yeah, more like, "If Motorcycles where derived from wagons, why are 
there still horse carts?", or something...

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