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]]> By: pinkocommiebastard http://atheists.org/blog/2009/05/20/missing-link-found/comment-page-1#comment-101771 pinkocommiebastard Thu, 28 May 2009 01:57:53 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=1670#comment-101771 neo: I know what you mean about the safety of skepticism, and I think we all have areas where hope and skepticism run parallel to one another in a kind of mutually important and necessary co-existence. Thanks for being nice. I'm new, but I'm already well aware of the volatile nature of this blog and am bracing myself for the eventuality of being internet-eviscerated for having an unpopular opinion here. :D neo:

I know what you mean about the safety of skepticism, and I think we all have areas where hope and skepticism run parallel to one another in a kind of mutually important and necessary co-existence. Thanks for being nice. I’m new, but I’m already well aware of the volatile nature of this blog and am bracing myself for the eventuality of being internet-eviscerated for having an unpopular opinion here. :D

]]> By: neowolfe http://atheists.org/blog/2009/05/20/missing-link-found/comment-page-1#comment-101611 neowolfe Tue, 26 May 2009 19:17:45 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=1670#comment-101611 666, You are absolutely right. The older I get, the less I can trust my memory. I remember a craze back in the sixties to own monkeys as exotic pets. Gibbons were one, and true, they are not really monkeys at all, but the other was spider monkeys. That was what I was thinking of, I didn't check my facts. Thank you for setting me straight. NeoWolfe 666,

You are absolutely right. The older I get, the less I can trust my memory. I remember a craze back in the sixties to own monkeys as exotic pets. Gibbons were one, and true, they are not really monkeys at all, but the other was spider monkeys. That was what I was thinking of, I didn’t check my facts. Thank you for setting me straight.

NeoWolfe

]]> By: neowolfe http://atheists.org/blog/2009/05/20/missing-link-found/comment-page-1#comment-101608 neowolfe Tue, 26 May 2009 19:06:28 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=1670#comment-101608 Commie, Great, common sense, well thought out post. You do apparently get my point. I believe you're kinda new here, and probably don't know me very well, but, rest assured that any doubt about evolution that existed in my mind disappeared when I took the time to study vestigial limbs and organs. Nature is a work in progress, and evolution is an obvious fact, not a theory. And like you said, everything we find widens the horizons of what we understand. And maybe I spoke too soon, maybe this dead monkey tells us something big that we didn't know before. I will be tuned in to hear what all the hype is about, but, my first instinct is to be skeptical, because disappointment hurts. I don't like pain. NeoWolfe Commie,

Great, common sense, well thought out post. You do apparently get my point. I believe you’re kinda new here, and probably don’t know me very well, but, rest assured that any doubt about evolution that existed in my mind disappeared when I took the time to study vestigial limbs and organs. Nature is a work in progress, and evolution is an obvious fact, not a theory.

And like you said, everything we find widens the horizons of what we understand. And maybe I spoke too soon, maybe this dead monkey tells us something big that we didn’t know before. I will be tuned in to hear what all the hype is about, but, my first instinct is to be skeptical, because disappointment hurts. I don’t like pain.

NeoWolfe

]]> By: ronster666 http://atheists.org/blog/2009/05/20/missing-link-found/comment-page-1#comment-101603 ronster666 Tue, 26 May 2009 18:14:51 +0000 http://atheists.org/blog/?p=1670#comment-101603 I think a little biology lesson is in order. This fossil has been likened to a gibbon monkey by at least one person here. The gibbon is a lesser ape, not a monkey and it does not have a tail. Whether the fossil is the "missing link" or not, probably will never be known. Evolution is a lot more complicated than many people realize. It has been my experience that most people do not even know that "survival of the fittest" has nothing to do with physical fitness and strength. They know little of reproductive fitness. I taught college biology for 7 years, so I speak from some experience. I think one thing that most of us can agree on is that it is a spectacularly complete and interesting fossil. I think a little biology lesson is in order. This fossil has been likened to a gibbon monkey by at least one person here. The gibbon is a lesser ape, not a monkey and it does not have a tail. Whether the fossil is the “missing link” or not, probably will never be known. Evolution is a lot more complicated than many people realize. It has been my experience that most people do not even know that “survival of the fittest” has nothing to do with physical fitness and strength. They know little of reproductive fitness. I taught college biology for 7 years, so I speak from some experience. I think one thing that most of us can agree on is that it is a spectacularly complete and interesting fossil.

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