[ Poll ] 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

[Shokushu]

Golden Dysprosium

Shokushu

Golden Dysprosium

Shokushu

Anima De Arcana

Hmm, so Canada has it's own Google site. I did not know that, thank you.

Let's spread it around and see how many people we can get using it?

I type in google.com and it sends me there (for obvious reasons).

It'd be a pain having to tweak my browser settings to not get redirected to other country versions of sites...
But on the other hand it makes you wonder why so many sites still make you click a flag to enter.

It's good in that you can narrow your search to "local" sites, which is helpful if you're looking for government programs (though they still ask for English/Francais before entering, if it's gov.ca) or stuff like theatres.
Otherwise, searching for stuff like Evolution (to bring us back to the topic) will bring up the same results (unless you're in, say, China).

If you guys don't have an extremely retro infrastructure for the ole series of tubes sites could default to French over in Canada B and English in Canada A just as easily and just have some swap language button visible near the top or side of the screen.

*My joke where I pretend to not know where Quebec is didn't turn out like I had hoped.

[Golden Dysprosium]

Shokushu

If you guys don't have an extremely retro infrastructure for the ole series of tubes sites could default to French over in Canada B and English in Canada A just as easily and just have some swap language button visible near the top or side of the screen.
*My joke where I pretend to not know where Quebec is didn't turn out like I had hoped.

You can easily find Quebec by the giant cloud of second-hand smoke above the province.
The problem is, we'd eventually have to put them both back on the same network.
See, French/English relations here works like this: say your soccer team (the English) beats another team (the "French" ). After the game, the other team whines that they since they didn't win, you should take them all out to dinner (usually Pepsi, baguettes, and cheap cigarettes), then drive them all home one by one. After you've done this, they come back the next day and complain that since you didn't take them out to lunch before the game, that's why they lost. They then demand that you take them out to lunch the next day because you neglected to the day before.

A good joke about Quebec would be that they like Pepsi so much, even the coke machines dispense it.

[Morberticus]

Golden Dysprosium

Shokushu

If you guys don't have an extremely retro infrastructure for the ole series of tubes sites could default to French over in Canada B and English in Canada A just as easily and just have some swap language button visible near the top or side of the screen.
*My joke where I pretend to not know where Quebec is didn't turn out like I had hoped.

You can easily find Quebec by the giant cloud of second-hand smoke above the province.
The problem is, we'd eventually have to put them both back on the same network.
See, French/English relations here works like this: say your soccer team (the English) beats another team (the "French" ). After the game, the other team whines that they since they didn't win, you should take them all out to dinner (usually Pepsi, baguettes, and cheap cigarettes), then drive them all home one by one. After you've done this, they come back the next day and complain that since you didn't take them out to lunch before the game, that's why they lost. They then demand that you take them out to lunch the next day because you neglected to the day before.

A good joke about Quebec would be that they like Pepsi so much, even the coke machines dispense it.

Canada and the French language always struck me as similar to here and the Irish language. A few pockets speak it, and the government tries to encourage the language with contrivances. Irish is our "first language" even though nobody speaks it.

[Shokushu]

Well no, websites with the code for it can tell where you're from based on your IP address. There are certain ranges any particular company uses the same way certain phone companies only assign some range of numbers: it would be bad if multiple people had the same number.

So because they had to send a little piece of info to your website saying "send me page x at address y" you can have it automatically send google.ca instead of google.com if the address is in canada and you should be able to automatically have it load the french version if the IP is quebecois (I was torn between demonstrating that I knew how to use the people form and typing it quebecky,) the same way.

[disco ninja]

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

[dragonmatt5]

disco ninja

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

...lets try this again.

First, just because a species branches, doesn't mean the original is killed off. In this case just because one very specific part of the branch (man) learned to speak, doesn't mean the primeapes that took the other paths would. This is not linear movement towards a goal. This is not guided towards hitting certain milestones in a certain order. Please don't ever suggest it is by posting such tripe as this, or why haven't humans grown wings, or other such nonsense. Doing so only demonstrates a lack of understanding of how evolution works on the most basic level.

Second, the time they have to develop means jack s**t, really. It is all dependent on A. random mutation and B. how the mutation affects survival. Monkeys don't speak complex languages like we do because there was A. no mutation that gave them the adequate tools to do so (not the same type of vocal construction as ourselves) and B. there was not enough environmental pressure for monkeys that would have promoted vocal related mutations over non-changed monkeys. Early man on the other hand lacked the agility and climbing ability of most monkeys. They also were more dependant on societies working together. Thus the ability to better share information was more useful to their survival.

Third, while not talking, you are aware of various prime apes being taught sign language, right? That, taken with the mentioning of how monkeys don't have the same vocal set up as man, would suggest that given enough time with environmental pressures favoring vocation they could learn to speak a language of sorts.

[viper232]

disco ninja

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

And why are we so much weaker? Why are all other apes vastly stronger than us, given all that time you think we should have grown physically stronger too right?

The answer is selection, intelligence was selected by the environment, the smarter more clever we were, the better we survived, other apes are no doubt fairly intelligent, but their environments didn't mandate that they grow as smart as us. They didn't need to become human-like to survive, just like we didn't need to become chimp-like to survive.

[Alt_Jack]

disco ninja

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

Sharks have been around even longer, and they're still the mindless killing machines they were before.
Maybe they need a Water Stone...hmmm.....

[Golden Dysprosium]

disco ninja

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

http://www.isntlifeterrible.com/uploaded_images/chimp_at_typewriter-765776.jpg
I disagree.

[iMintSheep]

I say this thread just needs to end. The majority of everyone here seems to agree. Monkeys and humans come from a common ancestor. Done deal. NEXT!

[dragonmatt5]

iMintSheep

I say this thread just needs to end. The majority of everyone here seems to agree. Monkeys and humans come from a common ancestor. Done deal. NEXT!

yes and if it did end, more of the same will pop up by creationist saying they have proof evolution is wrong. Rather then having to reply in a new thread every other day, I'd rather like it all localized.

[Shokushu]

disco ninja

I don't believe it. If we evolved from monkeys and they've been on the earth millions of years longer than us, how come they still don't have spoken languages, still live in trees or can't creat things. They've had plenty of time to develop more yet they probably haven't changed much from when they first appered.

So look at your family tree for just a bit. Let's say your dad's a doctor. Now, his mother had a brother who had another son but that son is just a janitor some place. The janitor still has the same last name as your great grandpa on that side but your last name is the one your grandma picked up so it seems newer.

So the Janitor family name has been around longer- why isn't he the doctor while your dad just pushes around feces?

Well, hopefully that explanation combined with a reasonable attention span has made it clear: it's the same family, they've both been around just as long. One side of the family tree had someone who became a doctor and the other side has something different. There's nothing about having the same great grandpa that makes you a doctor BUT- the doctor makes a lot of money so there's a pretty good chance that you and any of your siblings would go to better colleges (or even just colleges at all,) so that side of the family pretty much gets to be upper middle class and great grandfather gets to be a more distant relation each generation so even if you help that custodian a little right now pretty soon you don't have anything to do with them.