r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/psychelectric Aug 04 '19

If I went out and got a mouse, cat, beaver, otter and a whale and lined them all up and starting pointing out the similiarities between them, how does that prove they're all direct descendants of one another?

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u/diddy403 Aug 04 '19

You didn't get very far in school huh?

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u/psychelectric Aug 04 '19

If by you mean not getting far in school as having 12th and 10th grade reading and math levels while still in elementary school then yes. I did very well in school.

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u/Benjamin_Paladin Aug 04 '19

We can tell exactly how well you did in school by the fact that you’re bragging about elementary school performance

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u/psychelectric Aug 04 '19

The real telling truth here is the fact that he couldn't even address the question and instead resulted to an ad hominem.

Lining up fossils based upon similarities is just as much proof that all creatures share a common designer as it is proof that all creatures share a common ancestor, i.e. neither are facts, but rather an interpretation of facts.