On 26 May 2014, at 5:48 pm, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 May 2014 19:11, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 May 2014, at 4:42 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Functionally similar (perhaps), but certainly not genetically similar. We >>> aren't even gentically similar enough to interbreed with any other species >>> that evolved on the same planet under very similar conditions to us - for >>> example, we are very closely related to chimps, but we still can't >>> interbreed with them. > > If aliens tinkered with our genes then there is a non-null possibility that > we are more closely related to them genetically than we are to chimps, sea > slugs or grass. That would appear to be the purpose of their intereference > with evolution. Perhaps evolution is just a little bit too slow for them. > > If aliens tinkered with our genes, they did a damn poor job. I can think of a > dozen things they could have improved. I want to hear like a bat, see infra > red like a snake, regrow limbs like a salamander, run like a cheetah, have > night vision like a owl, be able to hold my breath like a whale, float like a > butterfly, sting like a bee. > > (And I have a few suggestions for how the male sex could be improved, but > I'll keep those to myself.)
"If God created the world then it's easy to see he's something of an underachiever" - Woody Allen K > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ============================ Kim Jones B.Mus.GDTL Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0450 963 719 Landline: 02 9389 4239 Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
