[Taxacom] Monkey Community greatly relieved

[Barry Roth]

Not every moment is a "teachable moment."  <sigh>

Barry Roth

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:00 AM, "Robin Leech" <releech at telus.net> wrote:

Hi Taxacomers,

The monkey community felt great relief upon hearing 
the anti-evolutionists' and Creationists' denial that 
humans came from monkeys.

Where did all this come from out of the blue?  Well, 
my significant other is a teacher, and after she reported 
that we had gone to the Royal Alberta Museum to hear 
talks on the background to Darwin and The Origin of 
Species, one of the other teachers replied in a loud, 
threatening (and threatened?) voice, 
"We didn't come from monkeys!"

It fell on deaf ears when she tried to explain the difference 
between "a common ancestor" and "monkey ancestors".

Robin 
_______________________________________________

Taxacom Mailing List
Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom

The Taxacom archive going back to 1992 may be searched with either of these methods:

(1) http://taxacom.markmail.org

Or (2) a Google search specified as:  site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom  your search terms here