On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:26:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

Guru of Woodstock wrote:
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and
apes?

Thought provoking question.

Not really. If evolving from a species, meant the extinction of that
species, there wouldn't be an evolutionary tree. It would be an
evolutionary telephone pole with no branches.

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:26:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

Guru of Woodstock wrote:
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and
apes?
Thought provoking question.

Not really. If evolving from a species, meant the extinction of that
species, there wouldn't be an evolutionary tree. It would be an
evolutionary telephone pole with no branches.

Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:


Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Yeah, but I think that is the fate of most species. It's the rare
species that endures. In the evolutionary scale of things, primates are
relatively recent. They still have a long way to go, before it can be
said they endured.

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:


Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Yeah, but I think that is the fate of most species. It's the rare
species that endures. In the evolutionary scale of things, primates are
relatively recent. They still have a long way to go, before it can be
said they endured.

As with most things, if you will, on Earth a few million years is not
much time.

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:57:20 -0400, BAR wrote:


As with most things, if you will, on Earth a few million years is not
much time.

That's true. Then, there's the coelacanth, 350 million years, and
counting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:26:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

Guru of Woodstock wrote:
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and
apes?
Thought provoking question.

Not really. If evolving from a species, meant the extinction of that
species, there wouldn't be an evolutionary tree. It would be an
evolutionary telephone pole with no branches.

Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Guys - it was a joke - you know - funny ha ha? A plausible
implausible?

Jeeze - relax - smell the roses.

Besides, we all know how the dinosaurs died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0F0sMhhAg

Yogi of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:47:41 -0400, BAR wrote:

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:26:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

Guru of Woodstock wrote:
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and
apes?
Thought provoking question.
Not really. If evolving from a species, meant the extinction of that
species, there wouldn't be an evolutionary tree. It would be an
evolutionary telephone pole with no branches.
Take a look at the evolution of the horse. Most of the species that
branched off, died off.

Guys - it was a joke - you know - funny ha ha? A plausible
implausible?

Jeeze - relax - smell the roses.

Besides, we all know how the dinosaurs died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0F0sMhhAg

You sure it wasn't a troll? ;-)