In response to Frank Pastore: The latest problems with the "Man evolved from apes" thesis

"Think of it as finding out dad and grandpa were actually brothers, not father and son." Sheer idiocy! My dad and I coexisted for 50+ yrs before he passed away. Does that make us brothers?!

This is absolute nonsense and evidence of a complete lack of imagination, or, perhaps, a simple refusal to imagine a possibility that apparently threatens a deeply held belief (although, not necessarily so - continue reading.).

The fact that h. habilis and h. erectus inhabited the planet simultaneously only proves that h. habilis and h. erectus inhabited the planet simultaneously! In and of itself, it neither proves nor disproves parentage, although that case has been made through other means. However, I'm not aware of any doctrine in evolutionary theory that requires that the parent species must disappear off the face of the earth the instant that a child species makes it's appearance. On the contrary, the theory of evolution, as opposed to depending on instant annihilation of parent species, would seem to predict that the parent and child species would inevitably coexist in the manner described. "The Origin of Species" does not contemplate a supernatural "instant annihilation of parent species". This is pure fantasy on your part. Congratulations. You have "disproved" an "essential" pillar of evolutionary theory, that is, in fact, no part of evolutionary theory! You remind me of liberals, who can't resist inventing straw dogs to knock down in their quest for legitimacy.

The insistence on the part of creationists that God must be kept "on the reservation" of the literaral biblical text, is evidence of an absence of humility, bordering on blasphemy, that sets limited human imagination above God's will.

When Einstein famously proclaimed that "God does not play dice with the universe", Nils Bohr responded, "Albert, stop telling God how to run the universe". You would do well to heed the same sage advice.

And here I was thinking that only Islamists thought that God was inaccessible through reason ("The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered..." Qur'an (5:64) ). Silly me! As is the case with the solar system, if truths derived subsequently through reason are not represented in the Bible, it is of no importance whatsoever. Our Bible was never intended to be the unquestionable source of all knowledge, nor are it's pronouncements regarding the details of God's universe meant to be the final word. That is the Islamist view of the Koran, not the Judeo-Christian view of the Bible, or at least so I thought.

To a God whose time frame is infinite, what's a few billion years amongst friends? To Him, it's a nanosecond. He still created man, but not according to the limits of human time scales. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (Shakespeare's Hamlet). Get over yourself! Do you really believe that God is confined to the limits of your imagination? What monumental arrogance! What a puny god that would be.

As to the 2/3 of Americans who believe in Alley Oop (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop>): "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius