- they’re not all in one place.But the Natural History has a fair few – Phillis

@Chris Bertschy – you’re almost right, but not for the reasons you think. The creationist argument that “if we evolved from apes, why are they still around” arises from the fundamental misconception that we evolved from the same species of apes we have now. We didn’t. Man did not evolve from chimps, gorillas, orangutans or any other of the extant ape species. We like they, evolved from common ancestors. There was no direct change from chimpanzee to man, rather there was a change from some common ancestor, and over time the chimpanzees and the homo sapiens became very distinct, but neither led into the other.

You should really read the sidebar to it. It’s very informative.

The video isn’t presented to be an accurate representation of our own lineage. It’s meant to illustrate (what many creationists can’t seem to understand) that micro changes, can culminate in “macro” results. That there is no distinction between the two in Science. Macro, is just what you call micro after a lot of it has occurred. It’s what you call seconds, once they turn into minutes.

That’s what the video was illustrating. How a little bit of change over a long period of time, can culminate in very long chances, at no point in which can you ever object to the transition in the next frame. That’s the point.

Morphing a man into a dog or any of the likes wouldn’t invalidate the video… it’s precisely the point of it.

Am I a homo sapiens? Cool!

If science was what we want to present, then we should present the science, and the core video buried under the lame rhetoric is absolutely brilliant, but I would never show it to anyone, not unless I could find the original un-slanted (and I suspect the authors of that were not the politicos who posted this junky pitch) As Joe Friday would say, “Just the facts, ma’am.”

The facts will speak for themselves. Let’s leave the snake-oil pitch to the carney barkers.

So yeah, I get a kick out of seeing the skull evolve, but…well everything Flapjack already said.

But just so’s nobody misunderstands me, I’m playing for the team here! I come to this blog because I’m on board, I’m not trying to rock anyone’s boat.