There are three topics that will launch endless threads at Free Republic: evolution, homosexuality and the the War On (Some) Drugs. These are the cleavage lines in the conservative movement.

Anyway, this one, from an evolution/creationism post, made me laugh:

I guess the some apes just refused to stand up in an effort to avoid putting on clothes and going to work. These are probably the apes that want to hold on to their culture. I have a neighbor that appears as though he's reverting back to an ape. He even put up a tire swing for his kids.

The one thing I always hated about the tire swing was it always has a collection of water trapped inside and no matter how much flipping around it refuses to come out. Good thing we evolved enough to invent the saw and drill so as to make a respectable seat from which to swing from.

Poster Damondonion said:

Hominids including the neanderthal were advanced apes and nothing more, and we are not related to any of them in any way, shape, or manner.

Technically both Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens are "advanced apes". Here are pictures of some neanderthals, they look human to me although they are a different species of human ape.

Josh: or one could use that drill to make some holes letting the water out.

Reconstruction of flesh on bone is an artistic endeavor. Harry and the Hendersons would be as realiable an arbiter of truth.

A humbling experiece would be to just consider the variety of bone structure of currently living humans in the world.

Ken Anthony said:

Reconstruction of flesh on bone is an artistic endeavor. Harry and the Hendersons would be as realiable an arbiter of truth.

Using knowledge of how muscles attach to bone, one can create such a reconstruction. It is useful for CSI's as well as paleontologists.

The Poster Damondonion said:

Maybe an ape with a slightly shorter tail, but that would be every bit of it.

The Great Apes have tails?

My friends and I used to have one guy haul the tire swing up into the tree house, about 10 feet up, while another guy would lie on the ground directly under where the tire swing would sit at rest. The tree house guy would then drop the tire at on the guy lying on the ground. It was a small tire, but seeing a large 20-ish pound object dropping rapidly towards your face gives you quite a little fear spike, even though you intellectually know the rope is going to jerk the tire short before it mashes your face.

Clearly, if the rope broke we would have deserved to be selected out of the gene pool.