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Zachriel



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 10 2007,10:15   

Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Feb. 10 2007,09:11)
DaveScot prevaricates.
   
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Paleontologist Richard Leakey Says We Are Descended From Apes
DaveScot

You know for many years I’ve been taking care to avoid saying men evolved from apes because the pedant dominated science establishment is quick to point out that we and apes descend from a common ancestor and anyone who thinks we evolved from apes clearly doesn’t understand evolution. So now we have arguably the most recognized living name in paleontology, Richard Leakey, blurting out the proverbial “I’m so stupid I don’t know what common ancestry means”. What are we to make of that? I’m sure our good pedant friends in the science establishment, through Panda’s Thumb or some member blog, will let us know upon reading this.

Dave, why obfuscate by quoting Leakey's casual statement?  

Now is your chance to state it loud and clear:  "I, Dave Springer, believe that human beings and the extant great apes share a common ancestor."  

Go ahead, don't be shy. Grow some stones.

Of course, Leakey's comment was perfectly accurate. Humans are apes. They descended from apes. And they share a common ancestry with other, extant apes.

What happens is when someone of DaveScot's 'stature' incorrectly claims or implies that humans descended from extant apes. Here is an example over at Teleological Blog who posted a chart showing that humans descended from mice. My reply immediately follows his comment.

Zachriel: Your cladogram is faulty. Modern bacterium are as much derived from their ancestors as are fish or humans. Nor did humans evolve from modern mice, but both evolved from a common vertebrate ancestor.

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