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12-12-2005 1:56 PM

since it seems that there is some misunderstanding as to how common ancestors are defined and how they "share traits of their progeny" and so forth, perhaps we should have some clarifying discussion.
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bio i spose.
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From Carico in Message 85:
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It doesn't explain how the "common ancestor" got the traits of a human, or where it came from, the incalculable mutations that would have had to have occur by chance in the myriad of generations of apes, what this "common ancestor" looked like, or if it even existed at all! If you're going to say that this "common ancestor" just appeared, then why not simply believe that God created humans? What other explanation for our miraculous life can there be except from a miraculous source?
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now, i'm sure carico isn't the only one with this misunderstanding. so, one: where do common ancestors come from? two: how did they "get" human traits. three: any other thoughts?
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i'd like to see comments from evo people as well as more questions from creos. but can we please keep it an honest question and answer session and not a "but god said 111!!!oneonewtfbbq". if you want to understand evolution's position more, great. if you just want to berate our heresy, save your fingers.
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If this is to provide a thread to explore Carico's questions from the Why is evolutions primary mechanism mutation ? thread, if you elaborate a bit I can release this. You could cut-n-paste one or two of Carico's questions in and then respond to them.
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better?
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Thread copied to the explaining common ancestry thread in the Human Origins forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.
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