Okay folks, for all you true believers in evolution out there, science has now proven that all mammals descend from a prehistoric rat! http://www.mnh.si.edu/mammals/mammalpictures/morgie.htm

Just so you know the truth now! Wouldn't want you to believe that humans were only evolved from monkeys! Rats are so much more.....creepy!

I mean if it's in the Smithsonian it must be the truth, right??????

lovesblessing has been wondering how evolution explains why caterpillers and worms turn into butterflys and moths?????? I mean couldn't evolution make up it's mind on what they were 'sposed to be? Worms or butterflys?????

hang on a second while I warm up my keyboard (Just kidding!)

hehe

I find it really hard to understand how people I feel are of reasonable intelligence can not keep in mind the very first post that started this thread to begin with...

Totally asinine of them in my opinion...

Summary......crapload of stuff happened way before we noticed it........somebody started keeping track of it......

I agree with Iplural on this one.. go start your own thread!!

Yes, please, this is not about debating if Evolution is true or not. It's a thread for people who believe in it to ponder on how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.

And just for the record, loveblessing, that animal would be the ancestor of all mamals, not just the ancestor of primates. That means the ancestor of rats, dogs, lions, girafes, etc. Even whales. And before that, we decend from fishes, and before that from virus-like cellular organism. I don't see any contradiction between the fact that monkeys and humans have a common ancestor, and that this ancestor has another ancestor.  The fact that you're your mother's child, is that a contradiction to the fact that you're your grandmother's granchild?

Anyway, if you wish to discuss this further, please open an "Disccussion about Evolution" thread. But we alread had many of them.

It's my thought that we need to take the term 'Evolution' and use it on a little larger scale than just the Earth.... I believe that science, philosophy and theosophy are tied together on a much grander scale that just our third rock from the sun

Did my eye spot the term "theosophy"? As in: the believe that mankind is curently being in its fifth evolutionary cycle and was preceded by Atlanteans, Lemurians, Hyperboreans and Polarians (to name just a fragment of this school of thought)?

Or did you mean "theology"?

Dang. (Theosophy) wasted a nickel word there.

To borrow from Wikipedia (One of my Faves BTW.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia

Theosophy A stricter definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes theosophy as "any of various philosophies professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, esp. a modern movement following Hindu and Buddhist teachings and seeking universal brotherhood."

So everyone Get yer KEDS, and Rolls of Quarters ready, we's a goin' home.

Seriously though, I agree but why limit the evolutionary Concept, and evolution of the Human Species to just one, teensie Planet.
If you believe in Evolution, then you have to believe in LGM's (Little Green Men.) I mean let's just accept the whole thing. If we have evolved, then there has to be somewhere another species, that has evolved, and as we have technological advancement, then they to must be advanced and possibly more so."We evolved ero they Must Evolve." "We are ergo they are." Sadly it was reported that CygnusXII completed the typing of his note, proved Black was White, and was run over at the nearest Zebra Crossing.
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This is just the wrong thread to post, whilst I am in the middle of a Carl Sagan (Cosmos) Marathon. I tried to warn ya.

Imagine that the history of the universe is compressed into one year—with the big bang occurring in the first seconds of New Year’s Day, and all our known history occurring in the final seconds before midnight on December 31. Using this scale of time, each month would equal a little over a billion years. Here’s a closer look at when important events would occur when we imagine the universe in one year.

I've read that off the link a few times and I still don't get it? hehe!
(what diff does time make nor effect on anything really)

Doreen comes to bug paxxy and take his thread off topic...

jussssss kidding carry on bro

It's just easier for people to understand one month than one billion years, you know, that's all.  It's reducing the scale, just like it's sometimes easier to admire the architecture of a building if you see it smaller.  If the Big Bang happened one year ago, then writting was invented only 15 seconds ago, and Columbus dicovered America only 1 second ago.   How long is a human life in this? 1/10th of a second?

For me it always blows my mind when I look up at night, makes me always realize how nothing we are...

and then of course the nagging questions "why" w/o the answer... (that part sucks) hehe