I Ain't Come From No Monkeys...

[raoul]

Pardon the intentionally poor English in the title but that was a quote from one of the delusional as we call them over at Google. One of the things that continues to boggle my mind is that in this country, America, we still have to deal with the Science deniers particularly in regards to Evolution. To refute them, I've put together a list of some very easy to understand sources regarding Evolutionary Science.

 

These sources contain a part of Evolutionary Science that I had no idea about until recently - the Chemical side of it. I was always aware of the Biological factors but never had any idea that Chemistry plays a big part in it. This is very important for the simple reason that the Chemical actions related to Evolution may give us the answers as to how everything kicked off in the first place. Scientists are working feverishly in this area with discoveries coming out almost monthly.

 

The very last source is the nuclear bomb as I call it. It contains almost every counter argument to the silly creationist fallacies tossed at us.

 

And, of course, to date not ONE of them has refuted any of this. In fact, whenever I've hit any of them with it most of them ignore it or shrug it off by saying something silly like I have to use other sources without thinking for myself. LOL

 

Each source begins with a very brief description by me about the information contained in the source. Oh, almost forgot - of course we did not come from primates however, as you probably already know, we both share a common ancestor since our DNA is over 99% identical to each other's.

 

Coming from primordial soup? That's the charge hurled at us but this may be exactly what occurred. The latest Scientific findings as of June 1st, 2015

http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2015/june/new-evidence-emerges-on-the-origins-of-life-the-genetic-code-developed-in-two-distinct-stages

 

Chemical Evolution (non life) causing Biological Evolution (Life)

 

Clear understanding of chemical processes creating life by Dr. J. England

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life

 

Center for Chemical Evolution - Scientists pursuing this further

http://centerforchemicalevolution.com/

 

Excellent Richard Dawkins explanation of "Something from Nothing"

 

NASA confirmation of life from non life

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/03/nasa-recreated-building-blocks-of-life-on-early-earth.html

 

Science Daily reinforces the NASA experiments cited right before this

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150304093547.htm

 

Dr. Lawrence Krauss shows how Quantum Mechanics proves we can create something from nothing.

 

Extremely easy to understand Evolutionary Facts/Evidences by PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/index.html

 

15 Creationist myths regarding Evolution (#3 addresses the macro fallacy by creationists)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/

 

101 Reasons for Evolution being true (accompanied by pretty pictures for our brain dead creationists)

http://ideonexus.com/2012/02/12/101-reasons-why-evolution-is-true/

 

The Natural History Museum source for human development via Evolution

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/modern-human-evolution/index.html

 

Understanding Evolution with a nice article regarding the Speciation straw man creationists love using.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_01

 

15 Evolutionary Gems for creationists too lazy to check the rest of these out.

http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdf

 

Evidence of Human descent via Evolutionary Science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent

 

For those creationists too lazy and/or dumb to read, here's an excellent set of Evolutionary Science videos for your enjoyment.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgi5SxCqAR2TAecHNTBlQqQ

 

 

Finally, the Nuclear Bomb for Creationists (Not ONE of them has ever been able to refute any of what is cited in this source - most simply ignore it)

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

[Sexton Blake]

If you didn't get here by evolution, this is how you got here:

 

http://s153.photobucket.com/user/neufen/media/neufen002/dirt_zpsgdis78n8.jpg.html?sort=3&o=24

 

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[florduh]

Sorry, but you just can't argue with "I ain't come from no monkeys."

[♦ Fuego ♦]

Thanks for the links! I hadn't heard this before. So much to learn.

[raoul]

Thanks for the links! I hadn't heard this before. So much to learn.

I know the feeling (so much to learn). I'm involved heavily in the bible once more. I thought I knew about the forgeries, corruptions, interpolations, etc. But after the past few months of studying more exposes, I know nothing. It's a life long pursuit now - learning something new every day.

[ExCBooster]

I think what baffles me is how insanely obvious it is that we and monkeys are all in the same "family" anyway. We share so many features, and I don't understand how people ignore this.

 

Look at a dog (they're really common, and even close at hand). Maybe your dog. I look at my dog and he has hair. So do I. He walks on his toes, on paw pads. I do not - I walk on the soles of my feet. He has claws. I do not. I have toe and fingernails. He has a leathery wet nose on the end of his muzzle, for catching smells. I do not, I have a skin-covered nose, that projects out of a relatively flat face, compared to him. His mother nursed him with milk when he was a puppy. I, as a female mammal, could also have milk. Mammals give live birth. And so on...

 

Dog compared to human? Close... ish. At least closer than a fish, which is, in turn, closer than a sea sapphire. 

 

Human compared to monkey? 

 

Hair? Check.

Fingernails? Check. 

Walks on soles of feet? Check.

Gripping hands? Check.

Fancy facial hair? Check.

Breasts up front (not, like four pairs or so along the belly)? Check.

Large complex social groups? Check.

 

When you get even closer to people, say, chimpanzees, the resemblance can be downright uncanny. We think chimps and monkeys are cute, specifically because they behave and look similar to us. "Oh, look at him, he's doing [fill in blank with almost human behavior]" And that response to cuteness and similarity? Also genetically hardwired - we're social animals. This is adorable, because you are a monkey, too. All your monkey brain bits are seeing that and saying: it's got the right proportions and colors - *social parenting response, ENGAGE!* Baby animals of other species don't often do the magic like that. It usually has to be a mammal, or at least fuzzy. That's why it's possible to design characters and products to be cute. It's hardwired. (Large, low-set eyes, large head, stubby and round proportions, softness, if you must know. We've known this for a while, actually. Look at animal designs by Disney, Sanrio, etc.)

 

Heck, domestic cats make that Noise (you know what I mean if you have a cat) when they want attention from you - not because it's the noise they make, because cats can make and hear noises far above our capacity to hear, but because it specifically gets the fastest response out of humans. That "hey! human thing feed me!" noise mimics the register of a crying human infant. It's a learned behavior, and they've got us wrapped around their dewclaws (which is another bit of anatomy we don't have).

 

This is a lemur's foot - which is about as far from us as primates get. I don't know how people can look at that, and not see the blatant similarities. 

 

I suspect that the insistence that "I ain't come from no monkeys" is a result of not looking at monkeys closely enough, and a strong, desperate, case of denial. It registers on at least a subconscious level, that you're looking at distant kin, when you see another primate. It's why we think they're cute.