Do you think humans came from apes?

Answer 1

No. Humans and apes came from one common ancestor. I don't know the name of it offhand, but think of it as a fork in the road- half took one fork and evolved into apes, the other took the other fork and evolved into humans.

Answer 2

Humans and apes are on divergent evolutionary lines. Humans did not evolve *from* apes, but there is a common ancestor somewhere in the past. Best guess is that about 5 million years ago, the two lines diverged. See reference 1 for a decent diagram.

Answer 3

Some of them. In genesis it says that the angels came down and found the humans pleasing. What does this passage mean to you? Could there be a race of people with the blood of angels? How far fetched is this from the Iroquoi belief that men are made from stars and flowers? Or that Eve came from the rib of Adam. So, an ape stood up one day and just like Ringo Star's "Caveman" Movie, they started walking and dancing and making music and cooking eggs. why not?

Answer 4

No. The evidence is not there. The evidence suggests that apes and humans once had a common ancestor millions of years ago, but not that humans evolved directly from apes.

Answer 5

Yes. More refined answer is that humans and apes came from common ancestor.

But the essence of your question is probably to make a distinction between a normal, scientific view on the world and speculative fantasies about gods.

Yes, evolution of life on Earth is being researched to great extend, from very simple organisms half-billion years ago to modern species.

Answer 6

definitely no!a specific species may change in physical traits due too climatic changes but a species will never change into another species even hundred thousand of years.imagine if the apes were the origin of men,then why there are still apes today?like the monkeys and gorillas and they cannot think and talk like the humans with advanced civilization !the creation of men after GOD"S image proved that humans are extraordinary creature able to communicate verbally with other humans and able to communicate through mental thelepathy with unseen beings!

Answer 7

than what did the apes come from? i dont know if we came from apes, but it is interesting to note that they haven't found what the apes have evolved from. for some reason they immediately digress to germs and bacteria. im sure the germs and bacteria must've had a transitionary phase, when they became apes. maybe bacteria, to fish, to land creature....so where is the evidence that the evolution occured. it seems that they happened in such gross stages, they haven't found any fluent evolution. it seems to be gigantic leaps. so what was an ape before it was an ape, but after it was a germ or a fish?

Answer 8

Define 'apes'. If by apes you mean primates, then yes.

If by 'apes' you mean 'gorillas, etc' then no. Humans and gorillas (et al) had a common anscestor, but humans didn't descend from gorillas (et al).

There is a even more evidence to support this now with the advent of molecular genetic techniques. It is possible to really take a good look at homology between human and other primate genomes. This points very clearly to common descent.

Answer 9

No, but I think that humans and apes had a common ancestor. You have to realize that, along with every species that exists on the planet today, humans and apes have undergone millions of years of evolution since they "split" along their paths. While we have a lot of things in common with those apes, especially chimpanzees, our common ancestor was likely a "less evolved" version of those animals.

But yeah, we're related.

Answer 10

If you don't believe that there was an ape-like creature that humans and apes evolved from, then you should also believe that the world is flat.