Did humans come from apes or monkeys?

No qualified scientist, including Charles Darwin, has ever claimed that human beings descended from monkeys or apes. Humans and apes are descended from a single species, a common ancestor, that no longer exists. This ancestor is commonly called the "proto-ape." While it can be said that we are related to apes and monkeys, they are in no way our predecessors. Humans share extreme commonalities with chimpanzees, apes, orangutans, and gorillas. Without regard to religion, it is undeniable to the scientific community that all humans, including Jesus Christ, belong to a group of mammals called "primates."

David Copperfield: Magical Impregnation

David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her.

Speaking to German magazine Galore, the illusionist rejected the theory that there were only seven different kinds of magic tricks.

He said: "Bull s**t! There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. In my next show I'm going to make a girl pregnant on stage."

He added: "Naturally it will be without sex. Everyone will be happy about it, but I'm not telling you any more."

The magician is currently on tour in Germany with his show, An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion.

Homer Simpson Makes Men of the Decade list

Top 10 Men of the Decade
*Philosopher: Homer Simpson
* Sportsman: Lance Armstrong
* Visionary: Jonathan Ive
* Designer: Sir Paul Smith
* Manager: Sven Goran Eriksson
* Activist: Bob Geldof
* Writer: Ian McEwan
* Musician: Damon Albarn
* Chef: Jamie Oliver
*Scientist: Craig Venter

Peaceful

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Nothing Personal

Sometimes I feel like a little bug. A dirty diseased little demented fly feasting on cow dung on the verge of biting his own head off out of doing myself(and others) a favour. Most times its happy go lucky watching the world revolve, cars going by, planes flying high above, sun rising, sun setting, tv on with a commercial running (at times you forget what you're watching cuz the damn ads keep booming away at every interval they can slot, stealing the thunder off your show) so, yeah tv running...world spinning not entirely out of control. What is there to do that has'nt already been done before?

Its ALL BEEN DONE! You're told you to be a team player but at the same time thrust your individuality. Go out there make as much cash as you can, step on whoever you can who gets in the way but when you reach the top give 10% of your gains to the poor, do charity...it'll cancel out the guilt. Join the ratrace, get a car + house, go to work 6 days a week, marry someone who can stand how quirky you can get, be a part of a group who'll somewhat understand you...is there really any point to all of this? To accumulate memories? To sit down one day when youre 40 and reminisce about the past 25 years?

Tell that to someone who is'nt quite as lucky. People brought up in wastelands, the starving, the orphaned, the crippled, the mentally retarded, the unfortunate ones who's entire families get wiped out by war or nature. I want to dig these eyes out and perforate these eardrums because PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID.

People believe that there is an ever watchful eye over us and that BEING has the almighty power to determine what does (or does'nt) happen to us. So in order to appease that certain BEING we have to go through a series of rituals. A strict code must be followed, failing which, we will be transported to a certain place where suffering is rife for all eternity (not Ethiopia, Afganistan nor Somalia) It sounds almost sci-fi, yet more than 60% of us BELIEVE.

Thats a facinating fact, especially when people watch Star-Trek and say it's utter bullocks.

Ohh! the superstitious

Black magic may have driven a Cambodian couple to bite off their daughter's thumb nails and suck her blood.

Chheng Chhorn, 46, and Srun Yoeung, 37, attacked their 12-year-old child before dawn on Thursday while she was still asleep, biting off her thumb nails and a small part of her nose to drink her blood, said Keo Norea Phy, a police official in Kampong Cham province where the incident occurred. Neighbors rushed to the couple's house and rescued the girl after hearing her screams, he said.

After treatment at a hospital in Kampong Cham, the girl was placed in the custody of other villagers. Relatives had taken her parents to a black magic healer to chase away the evil spirit that was believed to have possessed them, the police official said.

Preap Nhim, a local official, said the couple sold noodles in their village and had never before acted in a strange manner. He said they may have been driven by the spirit guarding the altar they kept inside their house.

Cambodia is a Buddhist country, but many people in the countryside are deeply superstitious. Some claim the ability to communicate with the dead and cure the sick by exorcising evil spirits from their bodies.

Associated Press