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Muse
Join Date: Aug 2010
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Humans evolved from fish
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Up The Irons
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Join Date: May 2007
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Sense not made.
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WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? - Death "Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies." - Mandawuy Yunupingu, lead singer of Yothu Yindi |
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Transcendental Naturalist
Join Date: Feb 2011
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This Pacu fish was caught in Texas in 2009. People keep them as pets but because they grow so big a lot of them get released into NA lakes. The teeth evolved to process fruit and nuts, a diet which makes them quite tasty apparently
![]() This reminds me of a quote I came across recently... “Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the way,” he insisted. “That’s another piece of garbage. What the hell’s it based on? We couldn’t’ve come from anything—fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don’t believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren’t monkeys changing into men now? It’s absolute garbage.” -John Lennon |
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Nasty Brutish and Tall
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Words cannot convey the vertiginous retching horror that enveloped me as I lost consciousness. - W. S. Burroughs Invert the prominent diaphragm!!! |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Yeah, well I want to know if Darwin was so smart and all, how come he never won a Nobel prize?
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Shanghai
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"... when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." Isaac Asimov |
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Cowardly insulter of Buddhism
Join Date: May 2008
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I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to. Only in America! |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: The Ancient Isle of Avignuon
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I know, I've seen the Guinness advert: http://wn.com/guinness_evolution
Apparently we evolved from mud skippers, into dinosaurs, back into fish, then pliesiosaurs, then flying squirrels then monkeys then us. I bet Darwin's cross but what can you do, I'm a Guinness fundamentalist (give thanks for the word of Beer). Yuri |
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"The test of democracy is freedom of criticism." -David Ben-Gurion Peasant: Now we see the violence inherent in the system. King: Shut up! Peasant: Come and see the violence inherent in the system, help, help! I’m being repressed! King: Bloody peasant! Peasant: Ooh, what a giveaway, did you hear that... that’s what I’m on about, d’you see him repressing me? You saw it didn’t you... - Monty Python and The Holy Grail |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Actually, I can't help thinking that some humans may have evolved from weasels...
Maybe I need to apologise to weasels for that comment... |
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Thinker
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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Nasty Brutish and Tall
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Words cannot convey the vertiginous retching horror that enveloped me as I lost consciousness. - W. S. Burroughs Invert the prominent diaphragm!!! |
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Mostly harmless
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"You got to use your brain." - McKinley Morganfield "The poor mystic homeopaths feel like petted house-cats thrown at high flood on the breaking ice." - Leon Trotsky |
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Cowardly insulter of Buddhism
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I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to. Only in America! |
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Show me the monkey!
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Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot. |
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Illuminator
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Illuminator
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Show me the monkey!
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Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot. |
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Scholar
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Actually a carp with dentures. Nice fit!
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: St. Louis, Mo.
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I think we evolved from squid.
All hail mighty Cthulhu. |
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Scholar
Join Date: Mar 2008
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That a real, not Photoshop job, in the OP photo? It's creepy.
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Gavagai!
Join Date: Aug 2008
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'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.' - Richard Feynman |
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Show me the monkey!
Join Date: Jul 2005
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It's real. Many people do not pay much attention to the Sheepshead fish.
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Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot. |
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Scholar
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Surfing on the relativistic brain wave
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Suum cuique I have no prejudices. I hate everbody! |
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No Ordinary Rabbit
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-------------------------------------- Stop asking me about that stupid fruity cereal...that's the OTHER rabbit! ![]()
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Now I recall seeing fish with human teeth recently. The parasitic isopod that asserts the place of a fish's tongue for several years, which looks like am amazing science fiction creature inside a cock pit piloting it's luxury battle fish cruiser.
![]() Proof that the bible trumps science, once again! :P |
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New York Skeptic
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Some Other Guy on Some Other Job
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Everything above is a lie. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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If man came from dust, why is there still dust? |
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I Will Not Impregnate You
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2010
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121.92-meter mutant fire-breathing lizard-thingy
Join Date: Nov 2009
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World War II Diplomatic and Political Resources Hyperwar, WWII Military History Kido Butai did not transmit. 木戸舞台は、無線メッセージを送信しませんでした |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Toronto
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100% Cannuck! |
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No Ordinary Rabbit
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-------------------------------------- Stop asking me about that stupid fruity cereal...that's the OTHER rabbit! ![]()
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2010
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If you guys think that picture is scary, learn about the actual details of this organism. It's terrifying! And they bite humans too if you disturb them.
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Jellied eel and offal fancier
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Penultimate Amazing
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: A small planet named for its dirt. You'll find it filed under 'mostly harmless'
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"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer "New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?' " - H. G. Wells |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Aug 2009
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"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer "New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?' " - H. G. Wells |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2007
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It's the same as this one which has a particular "alien" vibe
http://www.sharenator.com/The_Tongue...gua_18-17.html
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