Why is there still caveman?

You obviously didn't see this little clip

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oh my god

Quote from: Mehtta on April 17, 2016, 10:43:49 PM

I agree. Like, if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around? Scientists are fucking idiots

We evolved from apes, not monkeys.

Same exact thing

What you mean "evolved from cavemen?" We still are!

Ah yes, huddled for warmth in the hides of our prey, staring into the light, hanging onto a glimmer of hope that we may see it on the horizon just one more time.

Or in their case, avoid seeing it again.
Whether you construe that to mean that they might snuff out the lives they cling to before the darkness has passed, or merely hope to shield their eyes from its magnificent incandecense, is your volition.

Yeah.  I mean, in just the same way there are no longer any biplanes around, because now we have jets and helicopters and rockets.  Once the teleological end game that evolution chose to follow to make the best suited organism for whatever environment evolution finds on the planet, it immediately gets rid of all the other organisms or designs that had to happen to get to that end state.  So monkeys, fish, worms, bacteria, are all gone now because they have all been replaced with humans.  No biplanes either, because it is the same exact mechanism.  Aristotelian Evolution via teleological natural selection is clearly the way only way nature can actually work.

On a serious note, I am starting to wonder what exact analytical justification we have for explaining big bunches of individually living cells, making a superveneal aggregate organism out of the collective of those cells, makes any real sense at all.  We  definitely have some good justifications for individual cells being considered alive, as they fit the criteria that we have invented to describe life pretty well.  So do our macro scale organisms, like humans, but we have to take a lot of axioms to heart that our compound nature is just as justifiable as single celled organisms.  I have been trying to think about my own existence in a way which says I am not actually a living being, but the denominator left over from my body cells keeping themselves alive, that for convenience and just not knowing any better, we have humans have always described as being.  I think it actually makes more logical sense to think about us being huge bundles of individual living cells wandering around on their own collective volition, which we mistake as being our personality and sense of self-self through our brain cells making us think we are actual things.  I mean, we really don't actually respirate, some of our cells were made in a way which forces them in aggregate to force air in and out of our lungs, but it is all little cells working in unison through a complicated chemical quorum sensing system to actually push those cells around, suck in air to the huge collective of cells that is our lungs, and spread individual oxygen molecules on individual cells so that it can supply all of the rest of our little cells with oxygen.

That, or I am just smoking way too much pot and have gone off the deep end.

How could humans have evolved from homo erectus if gay people still exist?