Comments on: Monkeys first came to the Americas on vegetation rafts

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:15:41 +0000

Humans travelled to America when ocean level was 130 m lower than now. There were no Bering Strait, but instead there was a wide land bridge called Beringia. Alaska and Siberia were well connected. This bridge was flooded only after deglaciation around 18 000 years ago.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:07:45 +0000

The final breakdown of Gondvana happened about 70-80 mln years ago, millions years before extinction of dinosaurs. So Africa and South America had an ample time to drift apart before monkey’s ocean journey. Atlantic ocean was at this time almost as wide as it is now.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:39:01 +0000

It’s a crazy idea. That may be the best thing it has going for it.

By: Ed Bonderenka

Ed Bonderenka — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:08:38 +0000

I try not to mock other people’s religious beliefs, but that monkey story cracks me up.

By: OldTexan

OldTexan — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:48:09 +0000

I might have gone the whole day and not thought about monkeys on this hemisphere and rafts and millions of years and rafting monkeys and stuff like that. However I did soldier with some Special Forces guys who trained in Panama in the 1960’s and they were supposed to learn how to skin and eat monkeys.

I was told that it was not a good thing to eat Monkeys because they look real bad skinned and they don’t taste like chicken. Up to this very day that was all I know about monkeys in the Americas.

Thanks for the monkey and raft information and maybe that is where Bigfoot came from.

By: Callawyn

Callawyn — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:09:02 +0000

How far apart were Africa and S America 43 million years ago?

Continental Drift is glacially slow, but given 43 million years the South Atlantic might not have been very wide at the time.

By: sergey

sergey — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:07:53 +0000

It worth to mention that the climate 43 mln years ago was much hotter than in our times. The appearance of Panama Isthmus changed ocean circulation tremendously and cooled land temperature by 10 C on average. This happened only 3.5 mln years ago, and before that there were no deserts in Mexico.

By: Sangiovese

Sangiovese — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:39:38 +0000

It’s interesting that the very same scientists who completely discredit the Biblical account of creation can turn around and come up with stories like this.

I can’t prove or disprove 7-day creation. Nor can I prove or disprove 43 million year old raft-sailing monkeys. But that’s the point. The scientists can’t prove or disprove them either. But Scientists completely discredit the former while completely presenting multi-million-year history of the Earth as Known Fact.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:27:40 +0000

I recall reading in an account of the aftermath of the Krakatoa eruption that mariners spotted quite a few huge natural rafts in the ocean waters some distance from the explosion; immense tangles of pumice, trees and jungle foliage with quite a few animals and now and again a human skeleton on them.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:12:08 +0000

I wonder if people have traveled on those. I wonder if that’s how the aborigines got to Australia. (I am no anthropologist but read something once to the effect that nobody knows for sure how that happened — correct me if that’s wrong, please.)