Not very bright though, we clever monkeys

Real Actors=Oxymorons
We are monkeys
We do speak monkey
The bible was a book-We all agree in books, eh?
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Darwin was on some heavy, heavy drugs, and believed in keeping fucking in the family and suffered form his own delusional experiments.

Believe any monkey bullshit lately??

>> ^Lowen:

The point the video made was: we share a common ancestor with all monkeys, therefor we are monkeys. It's the same as; we share a common ancestor with all animals/vertebrates/mammals, therefor we are animals, vertebrates and mammals. So if chimpanzees all share a common ancestor with monkeys, then they are monkeys, even if they also share a common ancestor with apes and are therefor also apes.


I don't even know where to start with how wrong that is.

The point the video made was: we share a common ancestor with all monkeys, therefor we are monkeys. It's the same as; we share a common ancestor with all animals/vertebrates/mammals, therefor we are animals, vertebrates and mammals. So if chimpanzees all share a common ancestor with monkeys, then they are monkeys, even if they also share a common ancestor with apes and are therefor also apes.

>> ^Fusionaut:

Having a common ancestor does not mean they are the same. We share a common ancestor with all mammals yet we are not horses or pigs or dolphins or lions or platypuses et cetera...>> ^Lowen:
>> ^gargoyle:
Fact check -- chimpanzees are NOT monkeys.
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No we didn't evolve from monkeys. We and monkeys branched off from an even more primitive common ancestor, probably a lemur-like thing.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^ghark:
Our ancestors were apes, not monkeys.

That depends on how you define it. We ARE apes, and we share ancestors with other apes, but also with monkeys. The common ancestor of monkeys and humans would probably seem very monkey-like to us if we saw one, but we dont really have a name for it. Evolutionary-wise, you could set apes up as a subset of monkeys, in that sense, we ARE monkeys. See AronRa's breakdown of this problem here: http://youtu.be/Qo-WLiV7Zmg


Aye definition is very important for sure - most recent known ancestors then (and keeping the outdated definition of Ape). Very interesting vid btw, cheers.

>> ^ghark:

Our ancestors were apes, not monkeys.


That depends on how you define it. We ARE apes, and we share ancestors with other apes, but also with monkeys. The common ancestor of monkeys and humans would probably seem very monkey-like to us if we saw one, but we dont really have a name for it. Evolutionary-wise, you could set apes up as a subset of monkeys, in that sense, we ARE monkeys. See AronRa's breakdown of this problem here: http://youtu.be/Qo-WLiV7Zmg

wow! with such a depth of rationality I do belief we are monkeys. Wow how dumb can you get.

We are monkey borg. Resistence is futile! You will be assimilated.

Get out there into the Sifting world you weird old man ballerina, you!

(Hey, now that we have monkey rape in the top 15 I'd say it's good enough to sift.)

"because incomprehensible universal powers have, in effect, their and our backs."

Yeah, I know, that's where you lose me.

I suppose what irks me about the beliefs of religious people is their notion that it takes some leap of faith to NOT believe something. Religious people make this assumption because their own beliefs require a huge leap of faith.

Despite believing that we and monkeys share a common ancestor, I have enough faith in my fellow human beings to stand with my back to someone in front of subway tracks. That's not the same kind of faith required to attribute a supernatural basis to the very fabric of reality.