+289 Evolutionary biologists: You hate it when after you've basically dedicated your life to the science of biology, some theist (with hardly any education in the field) claims evolution is impossible since "there are still monkeys". Then you just sit and think, "Wow! I can't believe everyone in academia for the last 150 years has completely overlooked this brilliant refutation to evolution." amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My personal favorite: "Well why aren't there any fish-people walking around!"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's times like these that I wish Scrantoncity was still on here.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I used to "love", like, all of his comments, because everything he said was just such a joke to me

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I miss him yelling at him so much. Things are so quiet without him.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I made an extremely funny and relevant comment here that everyone needs to acknowledge: http://www.amirite.net/569662/1178905

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hahaha. I love it!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ill just say yes cause im blonde and dont know what your talking about

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Evolutionary biologists: You hate it when after you've basically dedicated your life to the science of biology, some blonde doesn't understand a simple amirite post. Then you just sit and think, "Wow! I can't believe everyone in academia for the last 150 years has completely overlooked the prevalence of dumb blondes. So much for natural selection."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No you're not...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that awkward moment when youre not actually blonde..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i feel like that was an insult, but you did it using big words i cant understand. i tip my hat to you for being clever

by Anonymous 13 years ago

L2 reply button

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know right? I spent 50+ years studying micro and macro evolution from simian beings, and after all my research was done, I took a trip to the zoo, and a monkey in a cage disproved all my findings.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 12 years ago

Can anyone explain to me (basically without write a 10 page paper) why we don't see man-apes nowadays? I'm a Christian but I'd like to check out other religions before I decide that this is the one for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

we share a common ancestor to monkeys etc, we did not evolve directly from them. Also just as one species developed it does certify the destruction of the previous one

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So the evolution was a one time thing? They all evolved at once and it won't happen again?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

no, evolution is constantly happening, it's a very slow process

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You should look up the precursors to humans like Homo erectus and Cro-Magnon. They represent transition species between our ancestors and modern humans

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The the humans split off from the common ancestor with apes millions of years ago and continued to evolve to people today. There were a good 20 species of upright walking humans between us and the split with apes etc. Humans today are much more evolved from humans a couple million years ago.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Basically, imagine a group of manmonkeys living in ancient, ancient times. Then, they split into two groups and one group evolved slowly into monkeys while the other group evolved slowly into humans. We are far enough along in evolution that you can't really tell by looking that humans and monkeys are closely related by this common ancestor. That's a very simplified explanation.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We do. http://ctrlv.in/66277 How much more proof do you need, exactly?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Instead of a ten page explanation, you got a ten comment one. Be careful what you wish for! :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess I asked for that haha

by Anonymous 12 years ago

so whats the answer?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you're thinking of "evolutionist," not "evolutionary biologist." Also, it's possible to be theist and evolutionist. Most deists are. You're thinking of creationists.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Evolutionary biology is a field. Evolutionary biologist is the correct term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_biology And he never said that thests can't be evolutionists, he was posing a hypothetical situation involving a particular theist who doesn't believe in evolution.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It just would've been more politically correct to say creationist because it's like saying "Some evolutionary biologist came and denied Jesus's existence", when evolution doesn't have much to do with it. Theism doesn't have much to do with evolution in this case and it's more of a creationist thing to say. I'm not being nitpicky, I'm just saying.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wow, there's a surprising number of evolutionary biologists on this site.

by Anonymous 12 years ago