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  • LOL

  • loved your purple suspenders!

  • .... i love you sal

  • I was born in 1994! Not that anyone cares, but still.

  • You are absolutely cute. You emitting a sense of a charming high school aged tutor. I got fancinated just to want to know how you are going to do your next presentation

  • Cool

  • The understanding is this:

    A theory is a HYPOTHESIS! It is a hypothesis supported by data from experimentation. As for a LAW, or a principle, it is also a theory but proves itself constantly over time, meaning a theory can become principle.

  • I guess swag' is a trait that developed in Gorillas after they broke off from our common ancestor.

  • Religious nutjobs? Its called the Theory of Evolution for a reason it hasn't been proven its just been "accepted" by many people. Anyone can disagree with it.

  • @TwolfStud It has been proven with the help of DNA, fossil records, etc. If you want to know more, there is a website called: talkorigins(DOT)org/faqs/comde­sc/ I hope this helps!

  • @aydarsh Thats where you are mistaken my friend. Many of the so called "skeletons" of beings that were "ancestors" of today's creatures are actually false. Scientists found a few bones and created what they thought that creature would look like. Pretty bogus stuff to me. The DNA argument is non-existant. If you would like to know the truth and the lack of credibility of leading Evolution-ists check out the film "Expelled".

  • @TwolfStud lol you're really advising people to watch "expelled"? A movie that was meant to promote intelligent design but instead just attacks misconceptions about evolution.

  • @TwolfStud You clearly don't understand what a Scientific Theory is or means. The facts are real.

  • @TheJoyLoveMoney You obviously don't know what a scientific theory means haha its based on "fact" but remains unproven. Evolution, however, has no physical evidence only speculational. All the so called "skeletons" were largely fabricated using only a few bones that could belong to any organism. Lucy was proven fake. All the intermediate stages between humans and monkeys were proven fallacious as well. There is no ground to stand on.

  • @TwolfStud A law is an observation of something that happens. A theory is a model which can explain why something happens. A theory is only called a theory because we can never have absolute 100% truth on a theory, but a scientific theory is more valuable than a fact or a law, because it can give us application and tell us why. We're modest enough to call evolution a theory because we do not know the ins and out, but short change over short time = long change over long time is a FACT

  • @TwolfStud Also you can't prove a Theory, it's virtually impossible. But just because you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt does not mean that it's not true.

  • @TheJoyLoveMoney And now you're presenting the same arguments as Christians. Case in point

  • @TwolfStud You're a retard, they aren't analogous at all

  • @TheJoyLoveMoney I know that 1+1 = 2. That is my theory. I know for a fact my theory is correct. You are wrong my good sir!

  • @TwolfStud If I drop a ball and it hits the ground, but I can't explain why, does that mean gravity doesn't exist? So it's then only speculation that the ball will hit the ground? So the theory of gravity is "just a theory"? So the ball won't fall to the ground then...? It's possible that it will shoot off into space?

  • Alexander the Great... Ape!

  • We need it in Portugues, please!

    Obrigado!

  • Where does the Grape Ape fit into this area?

  • heheh great vid!

    Relax, man... it's 1994 :P

  • I laughed really hard at this vid!!! Thanks!

  • Once upon a monkey tale time, a group of Secular Humanist, Atheist, Materialist, Evolutionists were monkeying around & they began to wonder about how they can contribute to the mischievous predetermining cause. Some of them were Taxonomists & some of them were involved with typically deceptive, political rulership

    They decided to create the determining criteria for classification under the "Ape" category. Obviously, the criteria must be traits or characteristics that are commonly shared by all

  • the organisms that are classified under the said category. Thus, they began to contemplate over the traits shared by all of the Great Apes:

    a physiological inability to speak - full body fur - not true bipeds - typically animalistic, very large mouth - large canine teeth - 4 hands (4 opposing thumbs) - stupider than "birdbrains" (Crows demonstrated analogical reasoning. BTW, "analogical" doesn't mean posteriorly pensive, primatological logic) - inability to build zoos with exhibited humans

  • One must wonder what is the criteria for classification within the Ape category? Perhaps, breathing air, drinking water... or maybe simply being a "forced into accepting evolution", human?

  • I hated biology for this very reason.

    That and the fact we had to dissect a frog, at which time I discovered that, even dead, a frog's leg will move b/c of nerves being stimulated free of the brain's command. They move the way an amoeba does after you poke it; as a direct reflex to the action.

  • omg just noticed this video after i comment on the fist bio video about apes having tails xD ... sry bout that...

  • If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey, even if it has a monkey kinda shape. If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey it's an ape!

    /watch?v=--szrOHtR6U

  • if we evolved from apes then why havent the other apes evolved yet?

  • lmao @ didn't feel the need to have a haircut

  • @LycanthrA

    We don't COME FROM apes; we ARE apes. Chimps have wars. Bonobos kill each other all the time. And have you ever watched a war-mongering speech? Alpha male human stands up in a high place, hoots and hollers, and the assembly below beats their fists and shouts territorially. We are apes.

  • I wish there was more to the video

  • the 12 butt hurt people who don't want to be Apes ,bless .that's the thing about science it's concerned with the truth not what you would like the truth to be .

  • MORE BIO VIDS! :)

  • Wow, this video got disliked 8 more times since yesterday. Talk about religious nutjobs accidently clicking on educational videos…

  • @MarvelsofaLifetime

    Just a speculation, but a poor one at best. Notice how all of his videos, whether it be biology or calculus all have a small percentage of dislikes. So your argument stands upon an unfounded idea making it as worthless as a guess. :)

  • @MarvelsofaLifetime not all religous people hate science. cough cough me cough

  • @MarvelsofaLifetime ahahaha

  • wow he called ME an APE

  • Apes are hot

  • Oh and by the way we are nothing like apes. Apes are a peaceful spec.

  • @LycanthrA they are not actually. Chimpanzees are known for eating the babies of rivals of the same species

  • @LycanthrA

    Bonobos are actually very aggressive and are known to kill their young for fun.

  • I can't believe that all these smart people think we came from apes. What a sad world we live in.

  • @LycanthrA thats soo truee i guess being smart doesnt make you wise

  • @hamzakhan111

    lol I bet you'd think the flat earth society is filled with the wisest of people.

  • @LycanthrA

    Are you sad we still don't live in the middle ages?

  • @LycanthrA they don't believe ,they know ! buddy get a education you're an embarrassment !

  • Talk about dinosaurs :)

  • it takes religion to deny basic taxonomy. humans not only evolved from apes, humans still are apes today. attempting to explain this to a fundamental creationist just gives me a headache though.

  • lol finishes video with haircut joke, good one ;D

  • another distinguishing characterist of apes is a free-hanging penis. not joking.

  • @91jgphonecall thanks for ruining my lunch lol

  • I bet the middle one is George Bush

  • What? I'm an APE? Wait, I'm a GREAT APE? Oh okay, now we cool, I like that..Great Ape...So apes have no tails, is "no tails" a type of tail? Nvm, just trolling, please don't kill me!

  • In the "Jungle Book", Kahn is a tiger. But here you are saying Kahn is an ape. That doesn't make any sense.

  • @ChristopherMarlowe that's sher khan mah dude

  • My god man xD

  • I HATE gorillas.

    The first haunted house it was one of the first thing we saw, one so big it towered over most of the adults. The first thing it did was run over to the bars and start rattling them.

    I know now it was a person, but the initial terror has stayed in my mind since that day.

  • Lol.

  • Apes do have tails, they require an X-ray to see though.

  • @TrueMetis Yeah, and sometimes it actually grows on some great apes (even humans). It's called an avatism.

  • @MyOverflow Atavism*

  • @SPACKlick Dyslexia at the keyboard strikes again!

  • @TrueMetis By that logic, humans also have tails...

  • @Enlight3nd We do, hence having a tail bone, also see MyOverFlow's comment.

  • @TrueMetis The tailbone is misnamed. It's the coccyx bone.

    Take anthropology or A&P in college and that's what you'll learn:D

  • @fcdog555 The Tailbone is our vestigial tail, it's what's left of the full tail all apes had millions of years ago. A vestigial appendage is still an appendage. Hence the genetic mutation that causes a small tail to grow in humans.

  • @TrueMetis Clarification the mutation that causes a small tail not to be broken down since all humans grow a tail in development. The tail is eventually broken down and reabsorbed leaving only the tail bone.

  • @TrueMetis That specific mutation you are talking about is an extension of the vertebra column. It is not a tail by any means. and the ape ancestors were closer to loruses than monkeys, and they do not have tails. Take a bloody biological anthropology class for crying out loud. One huge thing they make sure you know is that apes do not have a tail bone.

    go to college:p

  • @fcdog555 That's what a tail is. That's why the tail bone is made of vertebra and some monkey's can use theirs to grip things. I don't know much about Loruses but all primates, including us, evolved from monkey's. watch?v=4A-dMqEbSk8

    And I don't know were you went to collage but apes do have tail bones. (Wiki it) Evolutionary it would be impossible for us to have a tail bone but for apes not to, as we evolved from the same common ancestor, and the tailbone is where the full tail used to attach.

  • @TrueMetis Okay Aron is cool and I like his vids but he completely fails at that video.

    And I'm guessing you have never studied anthropology? Nor has aron. Wiki has a lot of mistakes. So I'm going to go ahead and go with two phd anthropologists who have both worked in the field. Both came to the same conclusion.

  • @fcdog555 Which part do you take issue with? That our ancestors were monkey's? Or that cladistics is right and only monophyletic groups are possible? You can claim to know a hundred phd's that disagree, you're still not arguing against the actual points. So put up or shut up. If our ancestors were monkey's which they clearly were, than how could we possibly not be monkey? People already accept that a mammal will always be a mammal, this is no different.

  • @fcdog555 Oh and Google skeleton human vs Lucy the first image that comes up will be a side by side of a human skeleton and lucy, both have tail bones. Then Google gorilla skeleton the second image will be a front view of a gorilla, again it will have a tail bone.

    So much for apes not having tail bones.

  • @TrueMetis So what you are telling me is that despite thousands of anthropology agree that the distinguishing characteristic of apes is not having a tail bone, you think they do?

    I'm sorry sir, but are you fucking retarded

  • @fcdog555 I would love to see you're proof on that claim. Unless you're blind is pretty clearly there when you look at an ape skeleton. But in case your eye fail you let's look at what Wikipedia has to say "The coccyx, commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the ape vertebral column." "In humans and other tailless primates (e.g. great apes) since Nacholaphitecus (a Miocene hominoid),[4][5] the coccyx is the remnant of a vestigial tail,"

  • @TrueMetis Then it's got papers written by anthropologists as references. So apparently there are plenty of Anthropologists who agree with me, which I've sourced. Against you're nameless "thousands of anthropology" SIC. The distinguishing characteristics of apes are the same as the distinguishing characteristics of humans, becuase human are apes. This is common knowledge at this point.

  • @TrueMetis And just because here are a few more sources for it, "A small triangular bone at the base of the spine in humans and apes. It is composed of several fused vertebrae. Also called tailbone. " The American Heritage® Science Dictionary

    "curved, semiflexible lower end of the backbone ( vertebral column) in apes and humans, representing a vestigial tail." Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

  • @TrueMetis Okay now read it again. NO WHERE DOES IT SAY THE COCCYX IS A TAIL BONE. It says it's a remnant of a vestigial tail thus meaning it used to be a tail and is not anymore. Okay look at any anthropology text and look under characteristics of apes. They all say they are tailless.

    Holy shit, I'm done tho. Your worse than convincing a Christian is wrong. There is no hope for someone who is denying scientific fact.

    good day

  • @fcdog555 Did you even read any of them? "The coccyx, commonly referred to as the tailbone"

    "A small triangular bone at the base of the spine in humans and apes. It is composed of several fused vertebrae. Also called tailbone. " Seems to be calling the coccyx a tail bone to me.

    And vestigial doesn't mean it is no longer what it was, And emu's wings are vestigial. but they are still wings. A vestigial structure is simply a structure that has lost it's original function, like the appendix.

  • @TrueMetis The full definition from Encyclopædia Britannica also call it that tailbone.

    "coccyx, also called tailbone, curved, semiflexible lower end of the backbone (vertebral column) in apes and humans, representing a vestigial tail."

  • @TrueMetis people refer to native Americans as Indians. Does that make them Indians? No.

    Okay so let me get this straight, even though the distinguishing characteristic of apes is to not have a tail, you are siding with them having a tail?

  • @fcdog555 An apes vestigial tail is a tail for the same reason an emu's vestigial wings are still wings, a mole's vestigial eyes are still eyes, or the appendix is still the appendix. And really if this is a defining characteristic does that mean the few species of monkey's that lack a full tail are now apes instead?

  • @TrueMetis That is not even close to what I am saying. I said a distinguishing trait of apes is to not have tails. That is not the same as saying things that do not have tails are apes. Why the fuck would you say that.

  • @fcdog555 That's not what I'm saying at all, nearly every trait that a monkey has apes also share, that's why I used monkey's. But just because a money doesn't have a tail doesn't make it an ape, even though it has most of it's other traits in common with an ape. This is moot though since apes do have tails, making that "characteristic" false.

  • @TrueMetis Monkeys and apes share few traits relative to each other...

    and if you seriously just said that characteristic is false there is absolutely no hope in you.

    Please for the sake of science take an anthropology course in college. I scored A in all of mine, I know what I am talking about. You sir, obviously do not.

  • @fcdog555 Monkey and apes share many traits in common because apes are monkey's. And enough of you're "I did well in a course that there is no way of actually verifying I actually took and obviously you haven't taken anything to do with anthropology because you've never made the same unverifiable claim" crap. Maybe I should just claim to be an anthropologist and be done with it. I have proven you wrong on your claim that apes don't have tailbones, you one the other hand have proven nothing.

  • @TrueMetis I quit. You literally just said apes are monkeys. Apes and monkeys share a common ancestor that is similar to a lorus. They are not the same.

    holy shit. Either you are trolling or you are completely ignorant to primatology.

    jesus christ man

  • @fcdog555 See video I linked and the cladogram held therein. Apes are monkey's get over it.

  • @fcdog555 What do ya know I was thinking the same about you.

  • @TrueMetis Just out of curiosity, your still in high school aren't you?

  • @fcdog555 I am not.

  • @fcdog555 Hey! Don't bring Jesus into it. He has enough of a hard time on this subject

  • @fcdog555 Actually apes are monkeys in the exact same way that lizards are amniotes. For example: Birds are archosaurs, but birds are still diapsids because they evidently descended from archosaurs, even though they've lost some characteristics of diapsids. In the same way, humans are still apes, monkeys, eutherians, opistokonts, and well, even fish; technically. This is basic cladistic phylogenetics, the modern way of classifying life. Check out Berkeley's "Evolution 101" site.

  • @fcdog555 Look at mr. high and mighty

  • @zackboomer Boner

  • I love this guy.

  • "Clearly, this great ape right here did not have a great sense of style in 1994 and really didn't feel the need to have a haircut." LOL! <3

  • LOL

  • I dont think your blonde phase was a good idea sal...

  • @digitised how could u say something so heartless....wow

  • haahahahahaha

  • I yell at 5 year olds at the zoo when they miscategorize these creatures. Yea, I'm a jerk.

  • Chuck Norris is called "The Greatest Ape of All Time"

  • that is funny, in 94 I was like 9 years old..

  • Two religious nutjobs watched this video.

  • @zz773

    3, I just disliked it.

  • @zz773 haha :)

  • @zz773 it's up to ten religious nut jobs now.

  • Evolution is a fact.

    We are apes.

    We are great apes.

  • From a great ape to another great ape, you are a GREAT great ape

  • Great Scott!

  • Even the greatest among apes make mistakes.

  • lolz

  • Khan, u surely are Great)

  • look at the backside on that gorilla

  • Which one is Sal?

  • @R2SweetTooth The hairy dark one with large eyebrows

  • @R2SweetTooth wwwoooowww how could u say that.......u douche bag.......get a life

  • @R2SweetTooth the middle one

  • @R2SweetTooth no 9 :(

  • @R2SweetTooth

    The one with the handsome black hair.

  • @R2SweetTooth I'm assuming the silverback in the middle. It must've been when Sal was in a college wrestling team or something like that.

  • LOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL

  • Oh Sal, u so silly ;p

  • o.O 1994 lol

  • Haha sal u always make Me laugh

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