People Who Look Like Monkeys

[Da Skinna]

Ever notice the people who are most vehemently anti-evolution themselves resemble monkeys?


Yeeaah.


It won't work right now but I'm trying to upload pictues of evangelicals that resemble certain kinds of monkeys... anyone wanna give it a try.

And no racist remarks.

[boofhead]

A fine compliment to all and sundry

[C.M.]

I'm as hairy as a baboon, but i'm not anti-evolution.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

You could just as easily find evolutionist that look like monkeys. In fact, it would be easier because more ppl seem to believe evolution than don't.

[TheKwas]

I tend think that many creationists resemble monkeys in numerous ways, but appearance is not one that comes to mind. Pretty stupid thread.

[Simetrical]

"People who look like monkeys" is not a very scientifically-stated category. I think a little more precision is needed, at the very least, if you intend this to be on-topic in the science forum.

[Bokks]

"People who look like monkeys" is not a very scientifically-stated category. I think a little more precision is needed, at the very least, if you intend this to be on-topic in the science forum.

No offence, Skinna, but I agree with Simetrical...
Kinda strange thought, too...
But to my higher plane of existance all you mortals look the same, so i can't really tell the difference anyways...

[Simetrical]

Okay, that's enough of this. This is not science and it's not worth moving anywhere else either.

[Cluny the Scourge]

In my life I have met some very unfortunate people with repulsive physical traits that gave them a simian appearance - a sloping forehead, a thick brow, protruding lips. It's interesting how primally instinctive and innate my revulsion was - it didn't matter to me how actually personable, intelligent or good-hearted they might have been as a personality, the horror of them was atavistic. I wanted to destroy them. They did not feel to me as though they were of the same species as myself - yet they were too similar to humans to be tolerated. It was as though they were mockeries of real people.

This made me reflect on the destruction of Neanderthal man. Once upon a time there was another species human who lived at the same time as our own, fully sentient and self-aware, but they became extinct. Was this simply the result of being 'outcompeted' as the explanation usually goes, deprived of living space and resources until they perished, or were they destroyed by violence fuelled by the kind of instinct I describe? And are there distant descendants of the Neanderthal still alive today, who interbred with our Cro-Magnon ancestors? Was Neanderthal-sex a special fetish for the more perverted of our forebears?

[CtrlAltDe1337]

In my life I have met some very unfortunate people with repulsive physical traits that gave them a simian appearance - a sloping forehead, a thick brow, protruding lips. It's interesting how primally instinctive and innate my revulsion was - it didn't matter to me how actually personable, intelligent or good-hearted they might have been as a personality, the horror of them was atavistic. I wanted to destroy them. They did not feel to me as though they were of the same species as myself - yet they were too similar to humans to be tolerated. It was as though they were mockeries of real people.

This made me reflect on the destruction of Neanderthal man. Once upon a time there was another species human who lived at the same time as our own, fully sentient and self-aware, but they became extinct. Was this simply the result of being 'outcompeted' as the explanation usually goes, deprived of living space and resources until they perished, or were they destroyed by violence fuelled by the kind of instinct I describe? And are there distant descendants of the Neanderthal still alive today, who interbred with our Cro-Magnon ancestors? Was Neanderthal-sex a special fetish for the more perverted of our forebears?

Erm, the "Neanderthal man" that we've dug up was a old man with rickets...but I guess you are talking more abstractly.

[Chaigidel]

neanderthal sex seems strangely comforting

[the_mango55]

Ever notice the people who are most vehemently anti-evolution themselves resemble monkeys?


Yeeaah.

Uhh, no.


I think you are trying to read way too much into this.

[Da Skinna]

Uhh, no.


I think you are trying to read way too much into this.

It was actually meant as a joke... I always put myself in these positions... something about emotions and expression not conveying through the magic box.