Do you claim a fish as your ancestor?

Radrook

Radrook

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I don't. Just wondering how many here do.

Here is one fellow who does:

Is it my imagination or is the other guy about to burst out laughing at various points? Also, isn't it a rather racist to only have black people as examples going back in time in that way?
 

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This is not really how it works, we didn't jump from fish to humans. Apes are our more direct ancestor. However, genetically, we can be traced back to fish, so yes - they are our distant ancestor (50 millions years of evolution ago).

Some God believers dispute this, but then some of them dispute evolution completely, even claiming the Earth is only 6000 or so years old. However, there can be no dispute about evolution - it's shown by fruit flies, countless flowers, dog breeds and so on. So...........
 
VaughanJB said:
This is not really how it works, we didn't jump from fish to humans. Apes are our more direct ancestor. However, genetically, we can be traced back to fish, so yes - they are our distant ancestor (50 millions years of evolution ago).

Some God believers dispute this, but then some of them dispute evolution completely, even claiming the Earth is only 6000 or so years old. However, there can be no dispute about evolution - it's shown by fruit flies, countless flowers, dog breeds and so on. So...........
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Omgosh. Couldn't you have just said yes without baiting? Some good people on the board hold to those beliefs.

You bring to mind the Southernism play on the old prevention truism... An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure.
 
VaughanJB said:
What is that supposed to me in context? I mean, for me there is no God, and therefore renders this comment irrelevant. Regardless, I fail to see how your comment applies to this topic?
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Yes. Very true. To atheists it isn't relevant. But not everyone on this forum is an atheist and so will consider it very relevant to the topic.
 
George1959 said:
For people who believe in evolution and know something of embryology there is no doubt that a fish was among our very early ancestors.
The movie "Inherit the Wind" (1960) is actually even today.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_inherit%20
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In evolution, the "ancestral line" isn't one straight line that starts with an amoeba or a microbe whatever and ends with a modern day human. So far, scientists of evolution, archeology, and ancient history and ancestry have discovered dozens of ancestral lines that don't all connect to one beginning or even to each other. They've found various hominids and humanoids that don't share any DNA with each other.

There is nothing concrete in the study of evolution that proves where humans began. Lots of theories, no Holy Grail.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Somewhere, sometime ago, the very first cell divided into two. Since then, there is an unbroken chain of evolving life forms that ultimately lead to humans.

Maybe we should remember that science is not religion, and religion is not science.
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You forgot the the part about water coding DNA.
 
I read the "Your Inner Fish" best seller. Worthwhile interesting read for science folks I'll recommend. As for this thread's anti evolution nonsense and other like nonsense, usual promoters of like "the Earth is flat" are just looking for public soap boxes to spew whatever ideas they have. The ship has long sailed away from sane objective debates for such like the current Moon landing thread or arguing the Earth is NOT 6000 years old. Sure, respond briefly if one must, but resist being foolishly baited into their sand box that is a trap. Clean sand atop the sand surface but with squishy warm cat turds just below for anyone foolish enough to get in.
 
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