h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

To find the missing link you need to find the right fossils. Fossils are only formed under very specific circumstances - the creature has to die in water, and that's just for starters. This means that there are very few fossils about, hence it is hard to find the fossils for the missing link.

Meaning perhaps they were bright enough to stay away from water if they couldn't swim? How quaint!

Kinda scary, dontcha think, that a whole roomful of the folks designated to 'govern' are among those that clueless?

Thank you very much for that link, it's wonderful how far charlatinism almost got that man. Maybe I'll take up a career in duping senators into paying me lots of money; it worked for RJR.

I don't actually think there's any difference between the evolutionist theory and the creationist theory except that in one everything was created by a supernaturally large force and the other everything was created by a supernatural entity

Spot the typo!!!
You're a 'nana Ben.

With regards to the missing link, there is a theory going that can't be disproved which is, there is no missing link.
It goes something like this...
Mankind did not evolve from one species but from the combination of two. The two oldest skelatons that have so far been found and been recognisable as our ancesters, come form two completely different parts of the world and bear little semblence to each other. One was from around the equator somewhere in Africa and teh other was from the steppes of Russia. You can look at both of these and say, "Yep, that's a human skelly." but when compared it becomes obvious that they were not the same species of human, even though they are from the same area of time. So it seems that rather than direct evolution and the link we are missing, humans from an early era were into inter special copulation. It would be a bit like two types of monkey producing an off spring.

To sum up this conversation, to understand Earth's direction we must first decide whether we like breasts or not, have that opinion enshrined in redneck law, discover for the first time that politics is a game requiring no intellect, and then consider the end of the universe. Of course, at not time during the above must we lose sight of the fact that we won't be around to see it, coz we'll be dead.

Nope. Y'all be missing the point. The real answer is this: The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, ie it travels westward. Since it is known by some of us that the Earth travels around the sun, the Earth's direction must therefore be EAST. QED.

Thank you. Can I have royalties?

To sorcerer take a look at the link provided by Anonymouse (40077) 11 postings down from your reply to mine. Interesting stuff,
And this is to everyone else who might read this. Is there anyone here that dosen't belive there is intellegent life on another planet in the universe.

That doesn't mean it moves West, it only means the rotation goes from West to East. As for the actual path around the sun or which way the earth goes from galactic central point, or even better from universal central point (if extant) or which way our entire universe is moving in relation to anything else beyond it there is probably no way to tell. Scientists once described the universe as being something to the effect of raisin bread. You are a rasin in an unbaked loaf of bread as the bread rises while being cooked:

a) every raisin appears to be moving away from you because the size en todo is being increased

b) you appear to be the center of the universe

c) the best conditioner in the galaxy isn't going to repair your singed hair

The moral: unless we have a collective group prayer to Allah, or scientist find a way to look beyond the 4th dimensions, in real time into space we probably will not know what's going on in this crazy world of ours.

Are you serious??? When there's none on this planet???

I know what's going on in this crazy world of ours, but if I told you you'd just think I was crazy.

A hint: watch the pigeons VERY CAREFULLY......

*Knowing* that the Earth goes round the Sun is certainly not something that you need to go about your daily life. What is surprising, however, is that these people who didn't know that had never stumbled upon the fact before and remembered it. They'd never been curious to find out about what was around them.

The statistic is really just a measure of peoples' blindness and/or lack of curiosity.

BTW, how does one define 'Eastwards' when not on the surface of the Earth? Just wondering?

I seem to remember a passage in a Sherlock Holmes story where Watson is surprised that Holmes doesn't know that the Earth goes round the Sun. When Holmes learns this fact he tells Watson that he (Holmes) will do his best to forget it. Holmes takes the attitude that human memory is limited, and he doesn't want to clutter his with stuff he doesn't need to do his job.

No one would accuse Holmes of lack of curiosity, he just feels that there are more important things to be curious about. Maybe all the other people that don't know about the Earth and the Sun feel the same way.

I think there is some intellegent life on earth but that wasn't my question, You obviously don't think there is intellegent life anywhere and as you can see I am not very intellegent. So what is intellegence???

Guinness Book of Records, circa 1977.

But importance is relative. I don't know the gestation period of an elephant, but should I ever get one into trouble, this information could be useful for avoiding the outraged elephant in question. You have to think of these things...... otherwise you end up watching soap operas to stop your brain working. 'A picker-up of unconsidered trifles will never be hungry - though may get sick of jelly and custard'

I quite like jelly and custard, but then I'm the intellectual equivalent of a twenty-five stone man. I forgot about the Earth's spin when I made my earlier contribution. This error goes to show how information leaks out of the brain, as per the theories of Homer Simpson. It also stops me from getting any royalties. Damn

I am an American, and an atheist also. (I almost started every word with "a" just now, but I really can't seem to figure out why this impresses me.) The problem is that religion is very dominant over here, and therefor creationism holds a lot of weight over here. You can't really blame people for being religious, or at least you shouldn't. Pity them instead...

*sigh*

Like sheep led to slaughter.