Patrick James <patjames@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<0001HW.BC54F360005FEBBBF02845B0@enews.newsguy.com>...
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 9:39:21 -0500, Uncle Davey wrote
> (in message <c0o0fm$5nl$1@pita.alt.net>):
>
> >
> > news:0001HW.BC54CEC2005756BAF02845B0@enews.newsguy.com...
> >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 2:45:15 -0500, Seppo Pietikainen wrote
> >> (in message <c0n878$18vcik$1@ID-137900.news.uni-berlin.de>):
> >>
> >>> Uncle Davey wrote:
> >>>> news:cc7t20p2e38am89eluuongcepvh87hcqnj@4ax.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:31:15 +0000 (UTC), the following
> >>>>> appeared in talk.origins, posted by "Uncle Davey"
> >>>>> <noway@jose.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> <snowbirdRemoveThis@ThisToosnowbird.freeserve.co.uk>
> >>>>
>
> >>>>>>> ShortCheerer wrote:
>
> >>>>>>>> Ok, I dont believe in evolution but, for those of you who do i have
> a
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> simple
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> question: If we came from monkeys/apes/whatever you want to call
> >>>>
> >>>> them,
> >>>>
> >>>>>> where
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> did the "monkeys" come from?
>
> >>>>>>> Rodents, which came from reptiles which came from amphibians (IIRC)
> >>>>>>> which can from fish. How far back do you want to go?
>
> >>>>>> So primates come from rodents, now.
> >>>>>> Good luck, digesting wood.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you go further back we also come from fish. Does that
> >>>>> mean we should be able to breathe underwater? (And FWIW, the
> >>>>> ancestors of primates probably derived from insectivores,
> >>>>> not rodents, admittedly a *very* minor point.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> AND BTW, just which rodents were you thinking of; you know,
> >>>>> the ones which eat wood?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Obviously I was thinking of beavers. There's hardly an hour goes by,
> and
> >>>> all
> >>>> that...
> >>>>
> >>>> Uncle Davey
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You believe that beavers eat wood?
> >>>
> >>
> >> That depends on how you define 'wood' and 'eat'.
> >>
> >
> > How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could define wood?
>
> Woodchucks don't eat wood.
I never said they did.
Why don't you read what I wrote instead of trying to set up a straw man argument?
Uncle Davey
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