Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00036)

Dear Brian/Brigitte,

Hermann Truss once said that lemurs were derived from
a group of humans who had escaped the African
continent and landed on Madagascar. This occurred
about six million years ago when the eyes of humans
were still on the lateral, like horses, and not to the
front as they are today. When they arrived on
Madagascar they came across a particularly aggressive
species of crow. This crow, recognising the ultimate
threat these new comers posed, started poking the eyes
out of these humans/lemurs. Gradually, over time and
through natural selection, these human/lemurs evolved
eyes at the front of their face where the crows had
great difficulty poking them. Another advantage this
posed for humans/lemurs was that they could now build
tools to counter-attack the crows. The crows, once
again realising the threat, started cross breeding
with ducks and the outcome was the three metre high
duck crow thunder bird. Now the human/lemurs had to
live on this island with this gigantic human/lemur
eating duck crow thunder bird. How did they counter
this threat? One group of human/lemurs grew long tails
and took to the trees where the duck crow thunder
birds were too heavy to go. Another group of
human/lemurs went back to mainland Africa and
eventually evolved into antomically modern humans (who
eventually went back to Madagascar and killed all the
duck crow thunder birds). And so said Hermann Truss,
praise HIS name!!



--- brianmuehlbach <brianmuehlbach@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Reg."Theosophy does not claim that man derived from
> monkeys.
> Nor has any responsible science, including Charles
> Darwin, ever done 
> so."
> 
> Brian: In the strictest sense, humans and monkeys or
> apes, are both 
> descended from a common ancestor. But the common
> ancestor of 
> humans and modern apes can pretty much be called an
> ape too (an 
> older ape)...or at least a monkey of some sort. 
> Both statements are 
> correct and I can't really recall which one Darwin
> specifically
> endorsed. 
> 
> As I mentioned a few days ago, Darwin's exact
> thoughts hardly even 
> matter now, given the weight of more recent
> anthropological theory
> and data. And its not just It's not just fossils.
> 
> 
> Brian
> --- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...>
> wrote:
> > That's what happens when I write messages too
> late at 
> night/early in
> > the morning. I had written two sentences, and
> rather than eliminate 
> one,
> > I took half of one and half of another.
> > 
> > It should have been, "Nor has ANY responsible
> SCIENTIST 
> done so."
> > 
> > brianmuehlbach wrote:
> > > 
> > > Reg."Nor has anybody responsible-science ever
> done so."
> > > 
> > > Brian: What are you talking about ?
> > > 
> 
> Brian
> > > 
> > > --- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky
> <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > > > brianmuehlbach wrote:
> > > > > Does Theosophy claim that man derived from
> monkeys yes or 
> no ?
> > > >
> > > > Theosophy does not claim that man
> derived from monkeys.
> > > Nor has anybody
> > > > responsible science, including Charles Darwin,
> ever done so.
> > > >
> > > > Bart Lidofsky
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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