"An infant gorilla in a Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts
between two rocks to extract oil..."
That means it's smarter than most creationists, who have yet to figure
out that the only way they can crack the nut of evolution is through
the only way they cannot do it: by finding evidence to refute it or
evidence to support their own position!
"It had been thought that the premeditated use of stones and
sticks to accomplish a task like cracking nuts was restricted to humans
and the smaller, more agile chimpanzees.
"Then, in late September, keepers at a Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
International sanctuary in this eastern Congo city saw 2 1/2-year-old
female gorilla Itebero smashing palm nuts between rocks in the "hammer
and anvil" technique, considered among the most complex tool use
behaviors."
"Earlier this year, researchers reported observing gorillas in the wild
in the neighboring Republic of Congo's rain forests using simple tools,
according to a team led by Thomas Breuer of the Wildlife Conservation
Society at the Bronx Zoo."
So not only are gorillas extremely close cousins of ours (as their DNA
will demonstrate when the code is read), they use tools and can speak
in American Sign Language. In other words, they are so close to us
that there is no reason at all why we could not have a common ancestor.
That is, unless any creationist reading this cares to offer a
scientific explanation of the mechanism which prevents one "kind"
(which you will have to define, of course) changing into another kind
via evolution.
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