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Originally Posted by Moontanman
What i think is your problem is the idea that fish just climbed out of the ocean and walked around. the is far too simplistic and has no real bearing on the actual evolution of life.
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I think you may be doing Questor a disservice, but I'll leave him up to addressing that, while I make my own misinterpretation of what Questor meant.
You have dealt effectively with the main thrust of Questor's points, but perhaps barely touched on the one that really niggles him. Why did some of the common ancestor of man and chimp become chimps and some become men? What, Questor want to know, motivated them? I think we need to state it much more clearly for Questor - circumstance and chance.
I'll say it again chance and circumstance. Reaching for that fruit on that branch started a chain of events that led to a particular evolutionary path. The neighbour chose a slightly different path and set out on a different evolutionary route.
