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Pointing to the reconstructed skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a museum visitor asks a security guard, “How old are those bones?” “Sixty-five million, four years and six months old,” says the guard. “How do you know their age so precisely?” “Well, those bones were 65 million years old when I started working here. And that was four-and-a-half years ago."
A little girl asked her Dad how the human race came about. "That's easy", he said. "God created Adam and Eve, they had children, and that's how the human race came about." A couple of days later, she asked her mother the same question. "Simple", her mother said. "A long time ago, there were ape-men, and we evolved from them." The girl was confused, so she went back to her Dad and asked him, "How come you said we were created by God, but Mum said we evolved from ape-men?" Her father said, "That's because I told you about my side of the family, and your mother told you about hers."
A little boy asked his grandfather, “Did God create you, granddad?” “Yes, he replied. “A long time ago.” The boy thought about this for a while, then he asked, “Did God create me too?” “Yes,” replied granddad. “It was only a little while ago.” “Well,” said the little boy, “He's been doing a lot better work lately.”
The Monkeys' Viewpoint: Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree, Discussing things as they're said to be; Said one to the others: "Now listen you two. There's a certain rumour that can't be true, That man descends from our noble race. The very idea is a disgrace; No monkey ever deserted his wife, Starved her babies and ruined her life, And you've never known a mother monk, To leave her babies with others to bunk, Or pass them on from one to another, Till they scarcely know who is their mother. And another thing you'll never see... A monk build a fence round a coconut tree, And let the coconuts go to waste; Forbidding all other monks a taste; Why, if I'd put a fence around the tree, Starvation would force you to steal from me. Here's another thing a monk won't do - Go out all night and get on the stew, Or use a gun or club or knife, To take some other monkey's life. Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss, But brother, he didn't descend from us." Anonymous.
A zookeeper saw a monkey in a cage with a Bible in one hand and a book on evolution in the other. He asked what the monkey was doing. "I'm trying to find out: Am I my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother?"
Back in 1925, an evolutionist stated at the Tennessee Scopes Trial, that there were no less than 180 vestigial structures in the human body. They believed that all of those structures no longer served a useful purpose, but were leftovers of the evolutionary process. Today we know better. That list has shrunk to almost zero. Even the mysterious appendix is now known to help produce antibodies and prevent bacteria in the colon reaching the blood stream.
Quotes
Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists, not because it has been observed to occur or can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible. Professor D.M.S. Watson, University of London
It is a most misleading phrase because it suggests that only one link is missing. It would be more accurate to say that the greater part of the chain is missing, so much that it is not entirely certain whether there is a chain at all. Scientist Anthony Standen commenting on the phrase ‘missing link; in Science is a Sacred Cow
The probability of life beginning from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory. Professor Edwin Conklin, Princeton University evolutionary biologist.
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable. Sir Arthur Keith
Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest. Hugh de Vries
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Dr Richard Lewontin, Evolutionary Geneticist, Harvard University