Creationist issues $11 trillion challenge

[Mattshark]

Be afraid be anything you wish. Human evolution you have evidence? Evidence to what that we came from monkeys? that we came from fish? What did we evolve from? And yes human remains have been found over the years that date back much futher than even science can explain. Human bones in coal and some that were even turning to coal and foot prints in stone. But I guess you wouldnt call that stuff evidence even etched in stone?

No they haven't. We only have evidence for humans going back for 200000 years. Anyone telling you different is lying. Unless you want to show a scientific paper saying otherwise, I await with baited breathe. We have a good hominid fossil record and we have good levels of DNA barcoding and we did NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS, that is a common misconception of the uneducated.

All what you talk about has been disproved.

Edited October 10, 2008 by Mattshark

[ravergirl]

is 10 trillion? this dude can't do anything else with that money??? like ooooooohhhhh donate it to anyones economy, or donate it to Sally Struthers or Jerrys kids, has this dude HEARD of Ethiopia?

[zandore]

Evidence to what that we came from monkeys?

Matt is correct in that it is a common misconception.

What did we evolve from?

We evolved a common ancestor....

The earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees to create a hybrid species, a new genetic analysis suggests.

Based on the study of human and chimp genomes, the scientists believe the split between the human and chimpanzee lines occurred much more recently than previously thought—no more than 6.3 million years ago and perhaps as recently as 5.4 million years ago.

Human and chimpanzee ancestors began branching apart on the primate evolutionary tree some 9 million years ago, but there are significant gaps in the fossil record. The new analysis suggests that a full split, which scientists call speciation, wasn't achieved for nearly 4 million years and might have occurred twice.

livescience.com

Like all other organisms, humans have evolved over time from earlier species, and share a genetic relationship to all other forms of life on Earth. The study of human evolution involves understanding the similarities and differences between humans and other species in their genes, body form, physiology, and behavior.

To understand human evolution one must understand where humans fit in relation to other forms of life. Modern humans belong to the group of mammals known as Primates. This is the scientific category describing such diverse creatures as lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, the monkeys of the New World and Old World, and also the apes. As primates we all share many characteristics, such as overlapping fields of vision caused by forward looking eyes (this allows for greater 3D vision), fine ability to grasp and handle objects in our hands, and enlarged brains relative to body size. The evolution of the Primates started in the early part of the Eocene epoch (about 55 million years ago).

By comparing humans and other living species, scientists have learned that humans are most similar to the large apes of Africa and Asia. Among all animals, humans and apes are the most alike in brain and body form, by having a complex social life, and in many other major and minor features, including the lack of a tail. The fossil record of several ancient ape species collectively called Proconsul shows that the split between the common ancestors of the Old world monkeys (above left) and the apes (above right) happened in the earliest Miocene, at least 20 million years ago.

Comparisons of DNA show that our closest living relatives are the ape species of Africa, and most studies by geneticists show that chimpanzees and humans are more closely related to each other than either is to gorillas. However, it must be stressed that humans did not evolve from living chimpanzees. Rather, our species and chimpanzees are both the descendants of a common ancestor that was distinct from other African apes. This common ancestor is thought to have existed in the Pliocene between 5 and 8 million years ago, based on the estimated rates of genetic change. Both of our species have since undergone 5 to 8 million years of evolution after this split of the two lineages. Using the fossil record, scientists attempt to reconstruct the evolution from this common ancestor through the series of early human species to today's modern human species.

mnh.si.edu

On a note of Mice and Men......

Among the findings are that mice and human beings both carry about 30,000 genes. Differences within these individual genes -- the precise sequences of the four-letter DNA code -- spell out the obvious differences between the two mammalian species. On a letter-by-letter basis, the genes are 85 percent the same.

Comparing the two genomes provides an evolutionary history of the two species, traced out in the diverging sequences of DNA. Mice, compared with humans, are more richly endowed in genes for sex, sense of smell, and immunity against pathogens.

sfgate.com

Maybe this will help you understand just what a theory means in this context: Introduction to the Scientific Method

.....and foot prints in stone. But I guess you wouldnt call that stuff evidence even etched in stone?

Do you mean the ones "found" near Paluxy River?

Read: Visit This Website

I got to say 'no I don't'

[BaneSilvermoon]

Wasn't there a similar "challenge" for like 20 years or so that was recently discontinued?