Thanks Virgie.  I actually made that whole story up except for the professor 
part at the end.  A friend of mine used that part of the story in his 
sermons when preaching on the theory of evolution, hahaha.  I was in a 
strange mood at the time tonight I wrote that.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "virgieU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Birds Of A Feather


> 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?
>>