Timetrvlr
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- central interior B.C., Canada
I know there are people who can trace their ancestry right back to Adam and Eve. The traditional Creation story is very appealing to some, but I’m a skeptic. I believe in the beauty of the evolutionist story and this is how I think it might have happened:
Seven Million Years Ago
Og and I had just awakened on that hot African afternoon when Og looked over at me from his nest high in the acacia tree and said, “You know, it seems to me that the trees we nested in when we were young were a lot higher than this and we didn’t get all scratched up every day trying to build nest in these damn thorny acacias! What happened anyhow?” “Well Og”, I said as I put on my sage face, ”When we were kids, there were a lot more trees, and bigger too. Why, I remember granddaddy Hu saying…” Og wasn’t the most well mannered Ape around so he interrupted my story with, “Listen, I don’t wanna hear another of your granddaddy Hu stories, lets get our skinny butts out of this here thorny tree and go on walkabout, I’ve got a mighty hunger for fat, juicy, termite grubs and I see a mound yonder that looks promising…”
When we got on the ground, we were on all four feet and we couldn’t see anything for all the tall grass and weeds, so I stood up to get my bearings and to locate the termite mound. All of that talk about fat juicy termite grubs had me drooling! Og was a little nervous ‘cause he had seen a leopard prowling around the neighborhood last night and we both felt a little apprehensive about being on the ground, but a termite mound was worth it! We figured the thing to do was to stand upright and walk over there so we could see all around and watch for kitties and keep an eye on that termite mound too. It was a little tough walking on our hind legs like that, but it was worth it.
When we got there, we found that mound to be hard as a rock! How in the hell are we going to break into it? Og had the bright idea of getting a big rock and trying to smash it, so we tried that for a while. All it did was to chip off some sharp corners here and there and we still hadn’t broken in and while he was doing that, the rock bounced off and mashed my toe! Damn clumsy Ape! I found a long sharp rock splinter on a rock outcropping nearby and stabbed the mound a few times and that seemed to be working! Soon we had dug a big hole in the side of it and feasted on grubs ‘til we dropped! Well, not really, but we were full and the sun was getting low, so we raced back to our tree.
I learned a valuable lesson today, standing up for what you believe in and carrying a sharp rock, is the key to success!
To be continued.....
Seven Million Years Ago
Og and I had just awakened on that hot African afternoon when Og looked over at me from his nest high in the acacia tree and said, “You know, it seems to me that the trees we nested in when we were young were a lot higher than this and we didn’t get all scratched up every day trying to build nest in these damn thorny acacias! What happened anyhow?” “Well Og”, I said as I put on my sage face, ”When we were kids, there were a lot more trees, and bigger too. Why, I remember granddaddy Hu saying…” Og wasn’t the most well mannered Ape around so he interrupted my story with, “Listen, I don’t wanna hear another of your granddaddy Hu stories, lets get our skinny butts out of this here thorny tree and go on walkabout, I’ve got a mighty hunger for fat, juicy, termite grubs and I see a mound yonder that looks promising…”
When we got on the ground, we were on all four feet and we couldn’t see anything for all the tall grass and weeds, so I stood up to get my bearings and to locate the termite mound. All of that talk about fat juicy termite grubs had me drooling! Og was a little nervous ‘cause he had seen a leopard prowling around the neighborhood last night and we both felt a little apprehensive about being on the ground, but a termite mound was worth it! We figured the thing to do was to stand upright and walk over there so we could see all around and watch for kitties and keep an eye on that termite mound too. It was a little tough walking on our hind legs like that, but it was worth it.
When we got there, we found that mound to be hard as a rock! How in the hell are we going to break into it? Og had the bright idea of getting a big rock and trying to smash it, so we tried that for a while. All it did was to chip off some sharp corners here and there and we still hadn’t broken in and while he was doing that, the rock bounced off and mashed my toe! Damn clumsy Ape! I found a long sharp rock splinter on a rock outcropping nearby and stabbed the mound a few times and that seemed to be working! Soon we had dug a big hole in the side of it and feasted on grubs ‘til we dropped! Well, not really, but we were full and the sun was getting low, so we raced back to our tree.
I learned a valuable lesson today, standing up for what you believe in and carrying a sharp rock, is the key to success!
To be continued.....