Do I Have to Believe Evolution?

[Elderman]

Well,For 116 years it graced the halls of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff—the fossilised skeleton of a 200m[illion]-year-old predator that once cruised the Jurassic seas,” says Britain’s newspaper The Guardian. “Then curators at Cardiff decided the remains of the ocean-going carnivore ichthyosaurus needed a brush up—and realised that they had been taken in.” “When we stripped off five layers of paint we found it was an elaborate forgery,” said conservator Caroline Buttler. “It was an amalgam of two types of ichthyosaurus plus a clever attempt at fake parts.” Instead of disposing of it, the museum will put it on display as an example of a fake fossil.

[jno]

there were some very clever forgers around in the Jurassic era; they've been fooling us for years. God must be having a good giggle.

[daisya]

AArrrgh jno I was hoping no one would answer lol....you've gorn and dunnit now! LOL

[Old_Geezer]

You do not have to believe in anything. Including evolution. But with the amount of evidence behind it and the number of things it explains, and how in a lab we can see it occur, you'd be smart to do so.

[cupid04]

Well I look nothing Like a monkey!

[naomi24]

^^ Just as well, because you didn't evolve from a monkey.

[Elderman]

Are you sure?

[Old_Geezer]

Oh I don't know. A monkey has 2 lower limbs, two upper limbs, a head, hair all over it's body. Are you sure ?

[naomi24]

Yes, I'm sure.

[missprim]

Old geezer, check out the joke I put on about cussing in church. I gave you a mention!

[MarkRae]

Naomi is correct. Homo sapiens did not evolve from monkeys - both species evolved separately from a common ancestor...

[daisya]

Not....not.....David Cameron M R? gasp!

[Old_Geezer]

They told me they'd keep that quiet, missprim !

[atrollope]

These Evangelists..Born agains..whatever..have now bowed under the weight of evidence...The new story they are peddling is that Dinosaurs sailed 2x2 on Noahs Ark...:0(

[Old_Geezer]

But they had to put one in the bow and one in the stern to balance them all.

[redcrx]

amazing, so what they all looked upon as being a dinosaur took them 116 years to figure out it was a fake. They held a false belief for only 116 years? they sound pretty smart to me

as for all the real dinosaur skeletons, for those that dont believe in evolution were they just gods practice runs, made in his image, before he decided he wanted to look a bit different?

[cupid04]

MarkRae, you must stop leaving your sentences unfinished!

[birdie1971]

I do find it astonishing that given the amount of information available at people's fingertips today, some of you still remain wilfully ignorant about the most basic aspects of evolution. As both Mark and Naomi have said, humans DID NOT evolve from monkeys or any other type of ape you see alive today. They evolved from a common ancestor. That common ancestor was neither human nor ape – it pre-dates both of these.

How many times does this have to be repeated before it sinks in?


http://en.wikipedia.o...ne_of_human_evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ancestor

[karenmac60]

“It was an amalgam of two types of ichthyosaurus plus a clever attempt at fake parts.”

So, because someone stuck parts of 2 dinosaur together - you don't believe in dinosaurs....

[birdie1971]

Elderman - “Do I Have to Believe Evolution?”

Of course not. Just like you don't have to believe in gravity. However, both of these theories have voluminous amounts of observed evidence from thousands of different sources from all corners of the world that support them.

The example in your initial post about the Victorian fake at the Cardiff museum is interesting but it doesn't disprove or even cast any doubt upon the veracity of evolutionary theory. If you're using the above example to make a case for evolution being untrue then you might as well also claim that Leonardo Da Vinci didn't exist because there are some fake paintings of the Mona Lisa knocking about.


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

[jno]

the observation that humans and monkeys descended from a common ancestor in no way invalidates cupid's remark. You may look like your cousins as much as you may look like your grandmothers.