Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 12, 2016

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    Randy B Premium Member over 8 years ago

    It’s the Nobel Prize for F@#!ing Stupid Questions.

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    Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 8 years ago

    And of course Gavin has a very good point with his first question, and the answer is that there AREN’T monkeys!   At least there aren’t the ancestral monkeys that we and modern monkeys evolved from. And modern monkeys are just as evolved as we are, just in a different direction.

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    BearsDown Premium Member over 8 years ago

    An excellent illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect..The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately.

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    Donald Hubin Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Great cartoon!

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    steverinoCT  over 8 years ago

    I just went through this with my niece, who in comm. college took a few classes in anthropology, and informed me that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and man from monkeys. I am sure she was mis-quoting her instructor on that last, and posed the famous question as in the cartoon. Then I emphatically gave her the “man and apes evolved from a common ancestor” answer, which she Googled to determine I was correct.I will be happy when she learns enough to discover she doesn’t know it all.

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    Funny_Ha_Ha  over 8 years ago

    You just made God contemplate his naval.

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    pumaman  over 8 years ago

    But there’s a missing link! And if you find that link then there’s still a gap somewhere that needs a link! The gaps are very small but I won’t be satisfied until you find an example of every generation going back to single celled animals.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I didn’t read all of the comments. Did anyone point out that it’s apes, not monkeys?Or chinchillas, maybe. I really can’t be sure.

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    King_Shark  over 8 years ago

    I actually know a couple of humans (Amerikastanis, needless to say) who claim the earth is flat. One of them also says gravity does not exist.

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    jeremiahcatclaw  over 8 years ago

    That question is exactly as stupid as asking “If I exist, why do my cousins exist?” We didn’t evolve from the monkeys or (other) apes that exist today. We all evolved from a common, likely monkey-like, ancestor. My cousins and I (and humans, apes and monkeys) all exist because our (great * n)-grandparents existed.

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    jpozenel  over 8 years ago

    Thank God (Al Gore) for the enlightenment provided by the internet!

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    57-Don  over 8 years ago

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/

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    markjoseph125  over 8 years ago

    How ’bout that—not even one creationist (doc, where are you?) showed up to babble incoherently?! Rationality and science, for the win!

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