Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!hopeful From: hopeful@fluke.UUCP (Rod Blaine Foist) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Lemme axe yew a question (Evolutioners) Message-ID: <2517@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 17:10:28 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2517 Posted: Mon Aug 12 17:10:28 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:12:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 40 Howdy, folks. Mah name is Buford Wanttruth, an, ah, Ahm a fren of Jake OH-shonesty. We's both employees hyere at Fluke. Ah slop da hogs fer Mr. Fluke's private stock of pigs. Well, me an Jake talk a lot 'bout origins an this has brung a question to mah mind. Ah wanna axe yew Evolutioners a question what has been on mah mind fer while an Ah'm jus curious bout what y'all thank. Hyere it is: Sposin evolution's true. Ah hear tell that we hewmens an da GOrillas (da apes) come fum da same ancestry. Now let's call dis dude, the po' boy fum which Chita an us come, let's call him A-0. Lets call us, A-N. Nowif'n Ah got da picture right, they's a bunch a characters in between ol A-0 an us A-N types. How many of these in-betweeners (call 'em "n") is they, Ah don't know. Ah also hear tell that they's two camps--the gradualists (Ah'll call um Grads) an da Punctuated Equilibrium types (Ah'll call um Puncs). Well, whether da Grads or da Puncs is right only means how many "n's" they is, right? Now Ah also heared that, as Stanley Friesen once said (April 9th), "Evolution *only* talks about increased *adaptation* and *not* improvement". Soif'n that means that each "n" between A-0 an A-N was more adapted, now hyere's mah question: How come there ain't any of these dudes ALIVE today? We got apes an we got hewmens still alive an well today. How come they (apparently) ain't nothin in between LIVING? Ah would like tah axe a related question fer all da major animal types, but Ah don't know how tah git speecific enuf. Now keep in mind, Ah'm not axen 'bout da fossil record, but rather bout what's actually ALIVE (or what's possibly been seen an recorded in history). Finally, dis ain't no loaded question dat Ah'v axed yew. Ah jus been curious an Ah really wondered what yew Evolutioners thank. Incidentally, Ah axed this same question of one of da fine Engineers (who's an Evolutioner) hyere at Fluke. His answer was: "They all died off". Buford Wanttruth P.S. Ah once was faced with da tough decision to choose between becomin a fry cook or a brain surgeon (since they's such closely related fields). Well as yew kin probably tell, Ah choose da fry cookin'. "Don't be wise in your own estimation".