Do you claim a fish as your ancestor?
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Don't you dare say Queen Camilla!
Murrmurr
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If I can claim any fish, I'll go with the archerfish.
Archerfish is one of the most intelligent fish species on the planet that uses tools to hunt prey. Remarkably, it varies the speed of the water it shoots at it's prey, calculating distance and prey size. Besides the complex skill of shooting down prey with water streams, archerfish can distinguish one human face from another. This cognitive ability was discovered in a recent study, where the archerfish recognized 3D versions of different human faces at different angles, demonstrating that archerfish have a considerably retentive memory and discerning intelligence.
Archerfish is one of the most intelligent fish species on the planet that uses tools to hunt prey. Remarkably, it varies the speed of the water it shoots at it's prey, calculating distance and prey size. Besides the complex skill of shooting down prey with water streams, archerfish can distinguish one human face from another. This cognitive ability was discovered in a recent study, where the archerfish recognized 3D versions of different human faces at different angles, demonstrating that archerfish have a considerably retentive memory and discerning intelligence.
Murrmurr
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Centaurs especially. Like that lady in the body spray ads.
Never saw it. Does she resemble a mare?
debodun
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Well, there is a resemblance....
gruntlabor
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But why could not God have created us in this way, evolution I mean? Why are they mutually exclusive?
I imagine that they have dissected its brain in all sorts of ways to find its secret.
officerripley
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What transformation?
True, a creator might choose whatever method he pleases. However, for many who hold certain certain religious standpoints that method is unacceptable. But it seems that it doesn't bother many Catholic clergy at all to accept it as the method that the creator used to create mankind, including their Pope.
raybar
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Here's a Wikipedia article, "Timeline of the evolutionary history," which outlines the history of the earth and evolution beginning with the formation of the earth 4.5 billion years ago.
Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia
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Murrmurr
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Pretty sure it was done through observation. Not saying it's impossible but it's a massive job dissecting a brain the size of a pea.
Murrmurr
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Note the word "theory". It's in the first sentence, and it's repeated a number of times.
Murrmurr
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"Now, Frank.............."
Aunt Bea
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The problem or question that I have with evolution is why aren’t new species continuing to slither up out of the muck and walk upright on land. 
gruntlabor
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But how can that be, when the universe is only 13.7 billion years old?
I was just joking about the hypothetical evolutionary transformation from Lemur to human previously mentioned.
Maybe he misplaced the decimal point.
Aunt Bea
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Definitely an odd dinosaur!Do you claim a fish as your ancestor?
Well now, what an interesting topic..... sadly, according to 'Ancestry', there are no fish in my family, a few monkeys and the odd dynasour maybe.
I think that is so cool. It is absolutely weird to think that every cell in my body is just a daughter cell of a cell from my mom (with some strands of DNA from dad, not sure get much else from sperm?), and that mom's cells were all from one of grandma's cells, back and back in unfathomable time.
Claiming something that hasn't been observed to happen in nature, and which can't be forced to happen in a laboratory, as an indisputable fact, and then claiming that it is happening all over the universe isn't science. It is wishful thinking.