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?
>