do u believe that we evolved from monkeys?

do you believe that we evolved from the ancestors of monkeys?

yes	55.8%	[ 241 ]
no	35.4%	[ 153 ]
not sure because you dont know anything at the matter of this topic	8.8%	[ 38 ]
Total Votes:			[ 432 ]

[Anima De Arcana]

Like meh. razz

[Golden Dysprosium]

Anima De Arcana

On the D.L.: Your always a good source of info Golden Dysprosium.

That's because I'm lazy. xd
I would rather open a new window and Google something than explain it.

Poet of Broken Hearts

(( >.> <.< Psssst..... I still think you're smart.... at least a lot smarter than a bunch of the other people here. ))

Take that, Matt! biggrin HAHAHA! Nah, I'm kidding.

In regards to the CoE's apology (from the article I linked to):

Quote:

A less critical tone was struck by Horace Barlow, 87, from Cambridge, who is Darwin’s great-grandson.
He said he thought his ancestor would have been pleased to hear the Church’s apology.
‘They buried him in Westminster Abbey, which I suppose was an apology of sorts,’ said Mr Barlow.
‘Darwin was very concerned about offending other people as his wife Emma was a committed Christian. So I think this apology would have pleased him.’

[Poet of Broken Hearts]

I have a favor I wish to ask of you....

✿ ⊱ X3 Yuh, like you. n__o But we're already friends.... XP

XD
Well... I think Darwin might have liked that, I just feel... disgust?... for the church. stare Apologizing after he died and after science proved it to be true. ⊰ ✿

... I would like to be kidnapped right away.

[Anima De Arcana]

The Catholic Church knows how to hold a grudge for sure. . . adds irony to how they told the middle-east to "let it go." I find that laughing at such behavior while openly scorning it is more pleasurable than just scorning. 3nodding

[Golden Dysprosium]

Yeah...they're like a bad ex: they refuse to admit they're wrong and on the off chance that they do apologize, it's faaaaar to late.

[Poet of Broken Hearts]

I have a favor I wish to ask of you....

✿ ⊱ XD You mean like the Crusades and what they did to the poor Jews? ⊰ ✿

... I would like to be kidnapped right away.

[Anima De Arcana]

No joke. Have they even thought of apologizing for the Spanish Inquisition yet?
P.S. I'll have to remember that for later, Poet. XP

[Windona]

No wonder Martin Luther said, "F you, I'm starting my own branch of Christianity." Only he wrote 99 thesis's.

[Anima De Arcana]

Windona

No wonder Martin Luther said, "F you, I'm starting my own branch of Christianity." Only he wrote 99 thesis's.

Yeah. . . but I could understand if they're still a little angry at Henry VIII. There is no way to make that not look selfish.

[Golden Dysprosium]

Personally, I think Darwin handled the situation pretty well. What's interesting is that if you look at the research being done at the time, someone would've put out something about evolution. Darwin was just the first one to the finish line.

[Anima De Arcana]

Golden Dysprosium

Personally, I think Darwin handled the situation pretty well. What's interesting is that if you look at the research being done at the time, someone would've put out something about evolution. Darwin was just the first one to the finish line.

No, he was beaten to it by his friend Alfred Russel Wallace. Darwin only published after he saw that Alfred wasn't being stoned and that if someone else had the same thought then he couldn't deny what his research said, even if he really didn't want it to be true.

[Damnati]

Golden Dysprosium

Personally, I think Darwin handled the situation pretty well. What's interesting is that if you look at the research being done at the time, someone would've put out something about evolution. Darwin was just the first one to the finish line.

Actually he wasn't. I think Wallace published at the same time, unbeknown to Darwin. In fact, Darwin's work was close to not being published in time to make the hit it did. If he waited until he wanted to publish it, Wallace's work, which was less well done than Darwin's, would have gotten too much bad press. In short, Darwin spent 22 years working on his paper, and it was immaculately well done. But Darwin was forced to release his paper early (he wanted to call it an abstract on the Origin of Species. An abstract over 400 pages long? Geeze), when a friend of his (who did not know Darwin was working on this paper) sent him a rough draft of a paper he was wanting to release. It was almost just like Darwins, but his colleague only spent a few years on the work, not over two decades. Again, it was a far weaker argument, and Darwin was afraid that presenting it weakly like that would have it die before it had a chance. So he rushed his "abstract" out at more or less the same time as Wallace, I believe. (Information from National Geographic. Though they failed to say the date Wallace released his work, other than being roughly at the same time, independent of each others work).

Surprised this thread lasted this long, though...

[Nyxs_Ace]

babbaling fool!
we did not evolove from monkeys who ever told you this is a fool.
we evoloved from a common ansestor as monkeys and apes, and have the fossils to prove it.

[Golden Dysprosium]

This I was aware of. Poor Darwin. If I recall correctly, he was originally going into a religious profession, but his plans changed. Worked out pretty well for him, I'd say.

[Anima De Arcana]

Damnati

Golden Dysprosium

Personally, I think Darwin handled the situation pretty well. What's interesting is that if you look at the research being done at the time, someone would've put out something about evolution. Darwin was just the first one to the finish line.

Actually he wasn't. I think Wallace published at the same time, unbeknown to Darwin. In fact, Darwin's work was close to not being published in time to make the hit it did. If he waited until he wanted to publish it, Wallace's work, which was less well done than Darwin's, would have gotten too much bad press. In short, Darwin spent 22 years working on his paper, and it was immaculately well done. But Darwin was forced to release his paper early (he wanted to call it an abstract on the Origin of Species. An abstract over 400 pages long? Geeze), when a friend of his (who did not know Darwin was working on this paper) sent him a rough draft of a paper he was wanting to release. It was almost just like Darwins, but his colleague only spent a few years on the work, not over two decades. Again, it was a far weaker argument, and Darwin was afraid that presenting it weakly like that would have it die before it had a chance. So he rushed his "abstract" out at more or less the same time as Wallace, I believe. (Information from National Geographic. Though they failed to say the date Wallace released his work, other than being roughly at the same time, independent of each others work).

Surprised this thread lasted this long, though...

I had always heard that The Origins of Species sat in his writing desk for over a decade because it went against what he believed. As Gold said, he wanted to be a priest. . . wanted to be a doc too but that one surgery on the kid stopped that cold. Darwin was a pretty interesting guy even without the groundbreaking work.