It had to have been a joke, Bill. Kind of hard to nail down just what the point was, though. Anyway, there was some pretty funny stuff in that post here and there. I think it's an attempt to portray anyone who doesn't agree with Al Gore's view of Global Warming as a drooling idiot who expects the Rapture to occur in the very near future and is waiting to receive his heavenly reward when it does. (but I may be wrong...)

Now the men and monkeys thing...what really happened there is that men, apes, AND monkeys devolved from the highly intelligent reptilianoids who once inabited the Earth, prior to the breakup of Gondwanaland. It was the immense cities built by the Reptilianoids which unwittingly contributed to the breakup of the supercontinent, as they were sourcing heat energy from the Earth's mantle with a technology long forgotten, and they triggered a continental breakup of Herculean dimensions. The fault lines appeared right where the cities stood, naturally, and spread from there. This wiped out most forms of life at the time. It has taken millions of years for the Earth to recover and repopulate itself, and the Reptilianoid knowledge has all been lost with the exception of one incredible breakthrough: the selective breeding of primitive canine species into Dachshunds!    ;-)