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Nomadic animals are already home.

You should ask Savanna Chimps why they don't go back to the Rainforest. We are studying them to get a better understanding of why our ancestors decided to spread out.
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The part about not going home when you're done scavenging.

We're not talking about Joe Chimp deciding to move to the savanna from the deep jungle. We're talking about an entire population of animals spread out over the two environments and the in between areas.
 
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We're not talking about Joe Chimp deciding to move to the savanna from the deep jungle. We're talking about an entire population of animals spread out over the two environments and the in between areas.


How do you get to the two environments without crossing the in between areas? These Chimps have completed step one in that process.

Human migration to Europe and China took thousands of years. They repeated what the Chimps did, over and over.
 
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Nomadic animals are already home.

You should ask Savanna Chimps why they don't go back to the Rainforest. We are studying them to get a better understanding of why our ancestors decided to spread out.
How about consulting an expert...
Chimpanzees are found in secondary re-growth forests, open woodlands, bamboo forests, swamp forests, and even open savanna with bands of riverine forest and forest savanna mosaic. In these areas they seldom venture far into the savanna except to move from one forest patch to the next.

Habitat - Jane Goodall Institute UK
 
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Nomadic animals are already home.

You should ask Savanna Chimps why they don't go back to the Rainforest. We are studying them to get a better understanding of why our ancestors decided to spread out.
How much human intervention is going-on in this study?
 
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We're not talking about Joe Chimp deciding to move to the savanna from the deep jungle. We're talking about an entire population of animals spread out over the two environments and the in between areas.
It appears as though Jane Goodall, who actually lived among and studied them, thinks they were inclined to stay in forest and jungle areas unless forced out by some dire intervention. There was no human intervention, like de-forestation way back when your scenario supposedly took place... so, I'm still wondering what made them leave unlimited forests and their natural habitat for open grassland (permanently)?
 
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It appears as though Jane Goodall, who actually lived among and studied them, thinks they were inclined to stay in forest and jungle areas unless forced out by some dire intervention. There was no human intervention, like de-forestation way back when your scenario supposedly took place... so, I'm still wondering what made them leave unlimited forests and their natural habitat for open grassland (permanently)?

Shifting the goalposts again. You switched it from ancient apes to modern chimps, which are not the same thing.

And again, you have been given answers. You're just ignoring them.
 
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Shifting the goalposts again. You switched it from ancient apes to modern chimps, which are not the same thing.
No, we've already established that time was irrelavent (posts 403 & 404) . And, post 440 brought up modern times again. Keep up now and quit trying to confuse everyone.

And again, you have been given answers. You're just ignoring them.
Not ignoring, just not satisfied. Your answers are just macroevolution regurgitation.
 
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Not ignoring, just not satisfied. Your answers are just macroevolution regurgitation.

What answer would satisfy you? Since you call honest answers "macroevolution regurgitation", whatever that is supposed to mean to you.
 
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What answer would satisfy you? Since you call honest answers "macroevolution regurgitation", whatever that is supposed to mean to you.
An honest answer doesn't necessarily make it the correct answer. I'm just saying ask yourself what could have happened (if it actually did) other than the book answers, which would have caused such an un-natural move. The books speculate some, why can't you? What other possibilities are there... of course you won't consider any.
 
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An honest answer doesn't necessarily make it the correct answer. I'm just saying ask yourself what could have happened (if it actually did) other than the book answers, which would have caused such an un-natural move. The books speculate some, why can't you? What other possibilities are there... of course you won't consider any.

All the answers that have been given are speculation since no-one has a time machine that allows us to go back to that specific point in time to see what happened.
And yes, what other possibilities are there? I'll consider scientific ones, and I'll consider factual ones.
 
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All the answers that have been given are speculation since no-one has a time machine that allows us to go back to that specific point in time to see what happened.
And yes, what other possibilities are there? I'll consider scientific ones, and I'll consider factual ones.
But not anything speculative, unless they are scientific, which somehow makes them factual...
 
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Maybe man was created, as a man like Genesis says.

Okay, so here's the nub with this whole bit now: you don't have any scientific evidence for that claim. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. It's a claim based on faith based on the Bible, a book.

It is the complete opposite to the answers that have been given since the answers you have been given are based on scientific speculation from scientific evidence of the world we live in, God's actual creation. You might call it 'macroevolution regurgitation' or some other drivel that's supposed to make you feel superior about yourself, but it doesn't change the fact that you don't have anything to support your claims except faith.
That's why you're seen as dishonest with this line of questioning.
 
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Okay, so here's the nub with this whole bit now: you don't have any scientific evidence for that claim. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. It's a claim based on faith based on the Bible, a book.

It is the complete opposite to the answers that have been given since the answers you have been given are based on scientific speculation from scientific evidence of the world we live in, God's actual creation. You might call it 'macroevolution regurgitation' or some other drivel that's supposed to make you feel superior about yourself, but it doesn't change the fact that you don't have anything to support your claims except faith.
That's why you're seen as dishonest with this line of questioning.
First, I don't feel superior to anyone. Second, what's the difference in your so-called honest answers that are based on scientific speculation and your referred-to dishonest answers based on faith?
 
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First, I don't feel superior to anyone. Second, what's the difference in your so-called honest answers that are based on scientific speculation and your referred-to dishonest answers based on faith?

Your comments read otherwise.
And secondly: scientific speculation, which is essentially another form of hypothesis, is based on information draw from the facts that we have. Facts based on the real world. Faith does nothing of the sort.
 
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How do you get to the two environments without crossing the in between areas? These Chimps have completed step one in that process.

Human migration to Europe and China took thousands of years. They repeated what the Chimps did, over and over.

I proposed they lived in both environments AND the intermediate.

How about consulting an expert...
Chimpanzees are found in secondary re-growth forests, open woodlands, bamboo forests, swamp forests, and even open savanna with bands of riverine forest and forest savanna mosaic. In these areas they seldom venture far into the savanna except to move from one forest patch to the next.

Habitat - Jane Goodall Institute UK

They are an example of exactly what I described: a forest dwelling primate, that can and does venture into the savanna.

In addition modern chimps aren't the only apes, nor are they the ancestors of modern humans.



Are you ready to concede that animals can and do change environments?
 
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