Hey Phil,
Your imagination is working overtime, I love it! How cool is this?
Virgie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Birds Of A Feather
> Sharon,
>
> Evolution is a theory. It is based upon what scientists think the fossil
> records reveal. The theory is that we all once lived in the oceans as
> single cell creatures. Eventually, after bumping into each other for
> millions of years, we became a gooey slimy substance which eventually
> floated up on a beech. We just laid there in the sun for a long time
> until we got sick and tired of being just goo laying on a sandy beach.
> So, we decided we better get out of the hot sun so we developed some
> appendages call legs. This enabled us to crawl up into the shade where it
> was much more comfortable. After a couple more millions of years, we got
> hungry so we developed a tiny mouth in order to eat tiny tiny, very tiny,
> insects which had been around for millions of years. As millions of years
> passed, and our brains began to develop, we decided laying around on the
> ground with tiny little legs wasn't cutting the mustard so during deep
> yoga type meditative states of consciousness, we expanded our tiny little
> minds. This afford us the mental ability to increase the length of our
> legs and later our arms and tiny hands. We eventually evolved into the
> reptilian species. Since flies had grown into much larger creatures, we
> discovered how good they tasted and how much protein they contained but,
> dad gum it, wouldn't you know, they developed bigger wings and could
> perform amazing aerobatic maneuvers so we started dying from lack of food.
> Putting our tiny brains to the task, we realized we need a long sticky
> tongue which could shoot out nearly the length of our bodies in order to
> snagged the flies and so it was. We grew larger as a result. Eventually,
> millions of years later, we got sick of eating flies so we started
> climbing trees and catching larger and larger insects. One day, one of us
> fell from the tree and got a terrible bump on the head hitting the ground
> but being as dedicated to life as we were, we climbed the tree again and a
> few million years later, one of us fell again. Up the tree we climbed
> again but this time, we learned from our mistakes and we literally began
> jumping from the trees, arms and legs outstretched and turning like
> windmills to break our fall. We practiced this for millions of years
> until it dawned us one day that wings work better than tiny arms and legs
> whirling around so we began to develop feathers on our little arms. Soon,
> we couldn't stop the process and our entire bodies were covered with
> feathers. By this stage of growth and development, we learn, by trial and
> error, some of us dying in the process, that we could glide farther and
> farther away from the coconut trees we now used as our above ground homes.
> Eventually, flapping our arms, now covered in feathers, we learned we
> could literally fly and so we did. We even began migrating across oceans
> and vast land masses which we later called continents. The world, we
> discovered was filled with bugs of all types and we ate until our bellies
> were full. One day, one of us, we had taken up calling ourselves birds by
> this time, lost our footing up in the branches of a tree but our bird tail
> snagged itself on the branch and kept us from doing a header right off the
> tree branch to our death far below. Over the next 20 million years, we
> began to develop softer tails because we rubbed them on the tree branches
> practicing gripping the branches with our tails in case we lost our
> balance once again. With all the extra food we had been eating, we
> decided fruits were better for us so we developed our wings into arms and
> dexterous hands with little fingers. We even developed fur for warmth and
> soon our bird feathers were gone and our tails were long and curly so we
> could literally swing from branch to branch as we collected hanging fruit.
> One day, millions of years into the future, one of us climbed down because
> we found a little cave. It was really a small entrance but one of us
> pushed through and the top of our head scraped against the roof of the
> cave entrance just a small amount. We found fresh water and fish in the
> caves and we learned the staying in the caves kept us from getting wet
> from the big thunderstorms. Some female animals, we now called ourselves
> monkeys for some reason instead of lizards or birds, started joining the
> male monkeys in the small caves and wouldn't you know it, they started
> having baby monkeys somehow. Yet, the cave opening was small and the male
> monkeys kept scrapping their heads on the ceiling of the cave entrances
> until eventually, the male monkeys had rubbed all the fur off the tops of
> their heads and they were bald. The result of this amazing story can now
> be discovered at any college or university of your choice because the bald
> headed man standing up in front of your class and teaching this garbage is
> now called, a professor.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Birds Of A Feather
>
>
>> Phil,
>>
>> Where do you think they get the idea that dinosaurs evolved into birds?
>> Is it because of their scales and protective plates that look like
>> feathers?
>
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