[psycherhexic]

I have to write one. Due next Monday. 4 pages (short!).

I can easily accomplish this. However, I'm also kind of busy and have a specific reason to get OTHER opinions.

My teacher is a devout Christian! He is a very nice guy, he just really gets under my skin with the way he talks about “the lord jesus christ”. So… I'd like to really get under his with this paper.

Of course, I have to have a works cited page and everything.

Everything is game as long as you can back it up.. even if you are on his side. So far the only truly controversial issue I'm using is Mckenna's theory on our primate ancestors eating the cubensis? which is what caused our creative/linguistic evolution.

thanks for your thoughts and discussion everyone!

[Pauldo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardi

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html

[Nameless One]

There is as much evidence for McKenna's intellectually attractive theory of human evolution as there is for your prof's zombie saviour.

Why not stick to some facts? Here's some stuff to get you started:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Common_descent#Overview_of_evidence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

[Ursa Major]

its incredibly annoying when people say, 'well why aren't monkies turning into people today', such arrogance, and whenever I get confronted with such statements I usually leave them alone, as battling people with heavy cognitive dissonance is never going to end well.

[Pauldo]

its incredibly annoying when people say, 'well why aren't monkies turning into people today', such arrogance, and whenever I get confronted with such statements I usually leave them alone, as battling people with heavy cognitive dissonance is never going to end well.

point them to Ardi then!  Humans did not evolve from chimps.  Humans and the greater apes split from their common ancestor before the great apes developed knuckle walking.  Humans were never knuckle walkers. 

[Author]

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