Dredge writes:
Ken Ham must have evolved from a pig, so why the hell do you claim he evolved from an ape?
I see you're another one of those creationist dupes who doesn't understand the difference between an ancestor and a cousin. Maybe you don't understand family relationships because you're an only child?
Everybody has grandparents but not everybody has uncles and aunts or cousins.
On my mother's side alone, I had seven aunts and four uncles by blood, plus seven uncles and four aunts by marriage. And they produced forty-seven cousins.
My cousins are not my grandparents. There is a direct line of descent from my grandparents to my parents to me - and there are other SEPARATE direct lines of descent from my grandparents to my aunts and uncles to my cousins. But there is NO line of descent between my cousins and me.
This understanding comes easily when there are so many of us. It may be difficult for you if you have no cousins.
So no, we are not evolved from apes. We are their cousins, not their grandchildren. We are evolved from common ancestors.
And no, we are not evolved from pigs. We are their cousins, not their grandchildren. We are evolved from common ancestors.
Your hero, the idiot Kleinman, is afraid to discuss this because it will only make him look stupider.
Come all of you cowboys all over this land,
I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command:
To hold a six shooter, and never to run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.
-- Woody Guthrie