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Originally Posted by absael
Orangutans and chimps are apes. The fossil evidence is, I think, sufficiently complete that this possibility can be ruled out, unless you go awfully far back (Aegyptopithecus, for example, dates from around 35 mya). It seems to me that the same evidence that disproves creationism serves to confute this idea, and for many of the same reasons.
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I'm pretty sure that any such scenario would be obvious by inexplicable discontinuities both in fossil history and DNA patterns. But it's fun to think of.
