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Was your ancestor a fish or are we only cousins?

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  • OMIJEN
    Lv 6
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    We are all products of evolution over millions of years..... Our bodies change according to environment and behaviour..... Who knows, in a few hundred years, humans will probably have thumbs 3 times the size they are now, because of texting. Our necks will be permanently bent forward and we will have eyes in the top of our heads, so we can still see where we are going and text at the same time. We will also have larger ears, with shelves to rest our cell phones on. In addition, the only words our mouths will be able to articulate are swear words and things such as

    BFF, LOL, WTF, TY and so on.... Makes me laugh :-)) Sounds like we are mentally going backwards.

  • David
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    You are pretty cocky for someone who obviously has never read Darwin. I suggest you reach back, grab a buttock with each hand and pull firmly but gently. Be careful not to pull too hard or you may hurt your ears.

    I know I am wasting my time, but you should read Richard Dawkins' book "The Greatest Show On Earth," which explains Darwin's work very clearly and simply, then shows the scientific proofs that have been done since then to establish that he was, in fact, accurate.

    Darwin himself insisted that all his work did was establish how God did it. He was a very devout Christian and his faith was not shaken by his discoveries. The truth is that the evolution deniers of today are as stupid and provably wrong as the idiots who tormented Galileo because he proved the Earth revolved around the Sun.

    It took the Catholics until the mid 1960s to admit they were wrong about Galileo. How long do you guys want to sound like fools this time?

    This question screams, "I AM AN IDIOT!" Was that your intention?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Fish and humans have a common ancestor if you go back far enough, yeah.

    Just like any other two living things on the planet, pretty much.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes and so was yours.

    Richard Dawkins sets this out using pure armchair logic in his recent children's book "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True."

    Magical isn't it? Well except that it isn't magic. It's reality. It's real. When science can explain something it doesn't make it any less wonderful, in fact I think it makes it more wonderful.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    One day a fish was swimming around in the sea, and it decided it would like to live on the land.

    So it flopped up onto the beach.

    And while it sat there, helpless, trying to evolve a set of lungs, it asphyxiated.

    And therein lies the problem with evolution.

    The fish had no need to adapt to living on the land. The sea was all it needed. How many fish flopped onto the beach before they either realised they should call it a day or be wiped out by their own ambition?

  • Deino
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I prefer to refer to a fish as a brother from another mother.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Again you do NOT understand anything about evolution or any other science; that is blatantly clear in your questions.

    Try reading a science text sometime instead of your bible.

  • Art
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I think my ancestor was a lobster, guess we're not related.

  • Yawn

  • 7 years ago

    My ancestors were human

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