OK, you people that believe in evolution, this is just about as stupid as it gets, right?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070716/ap_on_sc/standing_up

Answer 1

I can't believe that our tax dollars are being wasted on junk like this. Why don't they use that money to find cures for diseases and illnesses people are suffering from, instead of throwing it away?

Besides, the only thing this proves, is that SLOUCHING or IMPROPER POSTURES causes our lungs to work harder.

Answer 2

I think it's funny that on this thing evolution is talked about like there's some sort of debate, but in the real world pretty much everyone excepts it. At least I've yet to meet some one in real life that didn't support it, I always thought it was just wacky fundamentalists. Anyways, the experiment isn't stpuid really at all, and I'm sure they started walking puright ofr all those reasons and not just one. Neato.

Answer 3

I don't know whether I believe in evolution or not, to be truthful...but yeah, it's pretty stupid.
There are some advantages to walking on two, but lots of disadvantages, as well. (Believe me, I have congenital disc disease...the back SUFFERS!)
I can't see how walking on all-fours keeps the chimp from using his hands...seems to me, we would have had an easier time of "manipulating the world", as the writer put it, if we kept the speed and agility of using all-fours to get around on, as well as hung on to the opposable(sp?) thumbs on both hands and feet.
When I look at mankind vs the animal kingdom, I see a very weak and helpless creature who is destined to be lunch for a stronger, better equipped animal. It is inevitable, as man is much slower, and has no natural means of defense such as teeth or claws. Remember, he has to survive long enough to be able to think up tools, and then make them, and then learn to use them...
It really doesn't seem very likely to me...but then, I don't profess to know. Evolution could be a fact, as far-fetched as it seems.
It is enough for me to know that, however it happened, God did it.

Answer 4

i've noticed that evolution deniers look at all stories like this with only one question: does this prove evolution? of course, this one doesn't - no single experiment or observation does, and science in general is more about disproving things than proving them. after 150 years of earnestly trying to find facts that refute evolution and not finding any, it is more or less assumed these days that whatever phenomenon is studied in biology, evolution probably had something to do with it. so you're never going to find that experiment that proves evolution - it's not an open question any more. you're about 100 years too late with your skepticism.

Answer 5

Isn't the Leakey Institute a private organization? And our tax dollars are already being used to dispossess the peoples of two islamic countries (for jesus, natch), but thank god we don't fund embyrionic stem cells?

Answer 6

Yeah, how can they put their faith into things like facts and evidence? I think they're all possessed by Satan Himself. The Dark Lord has clouded their mind from the Truth of the Holy Bible!

Answer 7

I don't like the experiment much, but you seem to be pointing to yet MORE evidence confirming the basis of human evolution. That's fine with me.

Answer 8

Someone wants a definitive answer and they are going to test it. That isn't bad.