How do you know Lucy just isn't an ape...(or some such monkey...). I know - the pelvic girdle, right? Educate me.

Looking at the skulls those are some odd looking people in the beginning, but how do you know its just not cause they're so old? (Which contradicts myself???) No, seriously - I see some pretty odd looking folk every day. I think about that. I see some serious ledges on some folks (foreheads) and different shaped heads. I've made those points before. I don't know how these things are classified more specifically, but you could say the human bones found were just as variable as the dogs! (I suppose they're considered newer? I know, of course, we do breed them, too).

Just FYI, I don't see religion as mystic. I have my mysteries pretty filled in. Maybe I'm missing some puzzle pieces with some of that, but I guess my point is that you, too, are missing some puzzle pieces as far as the really big picture. Which is a lot bigger than how life began. How do you see our evolution and progression through eternity? Say after we die??????? Answer THAT one (again : ) For the fifth time.

K - I'm not stupid...I'm a little ignorant but more stubborn, not deluded, and not insane (most of the time) or wicked... So that blows that theory!!!

I get your points. It does make it seem more approachable the way you've explained it. At least if nothing else I'll come away understanding it all better. But, yes, I still have a problem with us evolving from apes. For one thing, why are there still apes if we evolved from them? (Are you screaming??? : ) Sorry - just kind of having fun now....I guess we're cousins? Could you explain how you explain that? So do you think humans are more or less evolved than eachother? Obviously there are different levels of intelligence, talent, etc. etc.

But what happens when we die? In the end, quite literally, that is going to matter more than our "ape" ancestry. I mean I'm into genealogy, but this is rediculous as am I being. Its time for me to go nigh night. I have enjoyed....