"Yes, along with apes and modern monkeys. They're all distant cousins. But it took millions of years just to get from apes to humans, even though over 95% of the DNA is the same. So it was really tiny changes all the way."
That's my best one. Pre-empts "Then why are monkeys still here?", denies the Young Earth hypothesis, presents an undisputed scientific factoid and makes the whole thing sound quite reasonable.
Sun, 2008-03-30 23:42
"Yes, along with apes and modern monkeys. They're all distant cousins. But it took millions of years just to get from apes to humans, even though over 95% of the DNA is the same. So it was really tiny changes all the way."
That's my best one. Pre-empts "Then why are monkeys still here?", denies the Young Earth hypothesis, presents an undisputed scientific factoid and makes the whole thing sound quite reasonable.
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