Realist Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8430359/humans-evolved-from-worm-creature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymistake Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I don't know. It seems more eel-like to me. But yes if you go far enough back we have ancestors who were one celled animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmot Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I don't know. It seems more eel-like to me. But yes if you go far enough back we have ancestors who were one celled animals. Agreed, it is nothing surprising. This is bound to bring up one of the major misconceptions that lay-Christians intentionally and unintentionally build up -- that we evolved from Apes, or from a turtle, or from a fish etc. We have a common ancestor with every animal on the planet. That doesn't mean evolved from them. It also doesn't mean it happened all in one big jump, either (as with this worm type creature). Deep geologic time -- hundreds of millions and billions of years -- creationists have a very difficult time understanding these magnitudes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babylonian Dream Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I could be looking at my ancestor from a long long time ago. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherJosh Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Hmmm. I wonder if humans survive long enough if our future and far off descendants will view us in the same way? Not that we would be considered in the same light. Just viewed as an extremely primitive and violent species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I had a feeling we all evolved from Canada. Awesome article, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadedAtheist Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Hmmm. I wonder if humans survive long enough if our future and far off descendants will view us in the same way? Not that we would be considered in the same light. Just viewed as an extremely primitive and violent species. We see this within our own relatively short history. I think most of society is still relatively barbaric now, let alone several centuries ago where you were burned at the stake for being an unbeliever or a "witch". Within even another century, maybe two, we will be viewed by our descendants in a light barely any different than our dark age ancestors . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RankStranger Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Are you my daddy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryper Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 why did "that's what she said" just keep running through my head while reading this article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scitsofreaky Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 It always irks me when people say that we evolved from this or that species. The odds aren't very good that we are direct descendants of Pikaia itself. Pikaia is representative of features our ancestor had, and since it is the only (AFAIK) species we know of like it from this time period, it is convienient to say we evolved from it, but technically it is highly unlikely. So, I guess, the title of the article is actually more accurate than the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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