Posts by Griff

Vatican endorses Darwin, slights intelligent design

Tetrapods and Apes

"Why are humans two legged when most animals have more?"

Actually, I think you'll find that humans are better described as "4-limbed" rather than "two-legged"

Along with thousands of other animals that are thought to have evolved from a common 4-limbed ancestor. (I think the term is tetrapod in cladistics)

Cows, tigers, frogs, lizards, sparrows, gorillas, etc etc etc. All have 4 limbs.

Oh, and humans didn't evolve from apes - we ARE apes. Humans are genetically closer to Chimps than gorillas, and chimps are gorillas are both apes, so...

Yes, of course you did...

Apparently, the Vatican came up with evolution in the first place. Wow. How's that for a little bit of revisionism?

I like this:

Indeed, he said, evolution could be traced back through Scholastics such as St Thomas Aquinas to St Augustine in the fourth century, who had noted that "big fish eat smaller fish".

Now thats definitely a theory to rival the years of travelling in steamy, malaria-infested jungles, collecting and writing that Darwin and Wallace did before they came up with their theories.

"big fish eat smaller fish" - that Tom Aquinas bloke was some kind of genius - he probably came up with that gem of wisdom while quaffing down the 6th of his daily allotment of 6 pints of hyper-strong monkish ale while sitting idly by a pond full of Koi Carp.