[derek @ Mar 11th 2007 1:08PM]

If we evolved from Apes..... WHY THE HELL ARE THERE STILL APES????

[Das @ Mar 11th 2007 1:22PM]

The answer to your question is so pathetically easy to find if you bothered to look for it that you must have already found the correct answer and rejected it.

Go spread your ignorance somewhere else.

[bob baty-barr @ Mar 11th 2007 4:30PM]

@derek... nice argument to debunk evolution... so basically, for evolution to be true apes would have to have magically turned into humans and then vanished? that sounds more like magic -- like water into wine kinda stuff...

so basically for you to believe in evolution it has to be more wrapped in mysticism... i get it :)

[ccridero @ Mar 11th 2007 6:13PM]

because the ones around now, are *different* ones to the ones that were your ancestors. complicated?

[cocoa-loco @ Mar 12th 2007 2:34PM]

this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...

[dvheil @ Mar 12th 2007 2:34PM]

this is the unfortunate misconception that many people have about evolution. The evolutionary relationship with apes is in regards to a common ancestor. Apes did not spontaneously become people you idiot. Of the several mechanisms for evolution, all of them somehow relate to genetic isolation. To become an evolutionarily distinct population, something (and yes it IS MUTATION, duplication or gene conversion) non-fatal must prevent a portion of a population from mating with others while allowing them to mate with each other. This can even be geography. Some millions of years ago a group of apes became genetically isolated from other apes and could no longer mate with them Now imagine after millions of years of this how divergent the populations would be...btw, i have a PhD in molecular biology so more often than not, I'm confused by the techno-lingo here but definitely not this area.

[Don @ Mar 14th 2007 1:43PM]

I'm going to go ahead and believe that you were joking here, because it saddens me too much to think you might be serious. That sort of thinking is why I don't have a house on Mars and a cancer cure.