Humans even look like apes. What is the hang-up?

Question

How can people ignore OBVIOUS clues to preserve their belief in mythology? Why don't these real-world facts cause people to think THE BOOK sounds fishy?

Answer 1

Christians are too narcissistic to acknowledge the blatant similarites.

Answer 2

There is a big difference between humans and apes.

You see we created a soul for ourselves a very long time ago, apes are yet to do that. Heck! we have even accepted that the soul we created for ourselves is just a product of our imagination, it will be millions of years before apes get to be were we are.

Big difference bud.... ;-)

[edited to add a comment for Daisy]

ahh no you are wrong.

Evolution is a fact, that has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is called the THEORY of evolution because the method by which the fact of evolution happens has not been identified. Whether it happens through 'natural selection' or some other method as of yet unidentified we don't know, but that it happens there is no doubt.

Answer 3

Perhaps if you read up on the subject, you would learn that even the scientific community agrees that evolution is still a theory-not a proven fact. It may eventually be proven, but it has not yet.

With that in mind, it seems rather silly to me that you think you have the answer, when many people, surely with much more education on the topic, don't agree yet.

What proof do you have that we evolved from apes? So there are similarities-that's true. But there are also distinct, undeniable differences as well. How do you explain that away?

Things can tend to seem very obvious to the uneducated. When you actually dig in and do some research, I suspect you'll come away with more questions than answers.

Answer 4

Agggghhhh! Every christian who wrote 'If people evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?' Should be drug out into the street and shot! Read a book on evolution you ignorant pricks!

Answer 5

some humans look like apes to be sure, but I've seen some who look like ferrets and some who look like bulldogs, I've even seen one lady that looks kind of like Miss Piggy, but that doesn't mean that we have ferret or bull dog or pig ancestors. Only thing that sounds fishy is you, come to think of it, one of the people I work with looks like a sun perch, how's that for fishy?

Answer 6

Oh yes, all men and women derived from Monkey's. Of course, this disagrees with there book, so maybe Adam and Eve where cromagnums?

Answer 7

Consider this, would your rather have branched from a common apelike ancestor, or have originated from dirt? Just asking, I don't find anything particularly romantic or elegant about dirt. Oh! my appologies to you gals, a rib.

Answer 8

I'm sorry, but I'm not covered in hair from head to toe, and only having bald spots on my butt, chest, back, and arm-pits (hey! exactly the same places where humans DO grow hair! Imagine that), nor does my big toe stick out from the arch of my foot. I don't have itty bitty eyes, nor a nose that's completely flat against my face. My canines are not bone-crushingly huge, nor can I walk upon all-fours using my knuckles. My forehead is not twice the height or length of my face. I am a frail creature, and would get completely pwned by a large monkey in a fist fight, and the strongest of men would get completely pwned by the frailest of apes. And honestly, I've never seen a blond-haired, blue-eyed ape before.

The only similiarities I see is 1.) Both have hands with thumbs [note: many rodents also have hands with thumbs] and 2.) both have similiar torso proportions.

The differences I see are:
1.) Different limb proportions
2.) Different skull proportions
3.) Different toe positioning (honestly, a mouse's hindpaw is more like my foot than an ape's foot)
4.) Different posture (any fully upright ape is classified within cryptozoology as "Bigfoot sighting")
5.) Different spinal positioning within the cranium
6.) Different cranium-to-brain ratio
7.) Different eating capabilities (apes are primarily herbivores/insectivores, whereas man is primarily omnivorous leaning on to carnivory despite the lack of the immense canines and sharpened meat-tearing teeth found in our herbivorious 'cousins')
8.) Different learning capabilities (apes are no better than parrots, mimicking skills with minimal reasoning akin to that found in Grey Parrots... whereas man, well... the invention of fire is an excellent place to start).
9.) Different facial structure and proportions
10.) Different hair positioning (and the fact that both have hair is irrelevant. Poodles and cats have hair too, but no one proclaims them as being part of our genealogy)
11.) Minimal variety of hair/skin/eye colors compared to our relatively vast variety
12.) Intelligence levels (minimalistic capability to use tools, compared to the superior usage of tools achieved by various birds and insects... yet these birds and bugs are not part of our genealogy)
13.) DNA sampling (Humans are more closely related to chickens [something not in our family tree] than we are with rats [something that is]... just because we are 97% genetically alike with Chimps does not mean we descended from a common ancestor as them, it simply means 97% of all things that make us who we are happen to be similiar, the blood cells, the composition of ribs, thumbs and not dewclaws, nails and not talons, etc... and to me, that points to a common designer)

Let's put our belief this way... I have seen a tattoo artist capable of tattooing sunflowers on people. I have also seen Vincent Van Gogh's painting of sunflowers. Isn't it such an OBVIOUS clue that Van Gogh was a tattoo artist? Hardly. But, yet, both people were inspired by one thing: the sunflower. So too is it with God, that yes, we have man here, monkey there, and they look similiar. Couldn't that point to a similiar Creator, instead of a similiar ancestor?

Lol. One final note: I have a 'double' in the same city that I live in. Someone who is the spitting image of me, dresses as I do, walks as I do, drives a car similiar to mine... yet I have no blood relatives (excluding my children) where I live. She is so like me, my husband almost mistook her for me. Is she, somehow, my cousin? No. We just happen to have a similiar DNA, and therefore, a similiar Creator.

Answer 9

Besides the fact that your avatar is offensive and I believe racist, please post your "facts". And, just because something looks like something else does not say that they are related.

I choose to interpret the facts based on the Word of God from the Bible. If you look into many of the evolutionists myths, you would find that there is alot of faith that you have to have to believe in evolution. I choose God over mankind.

Check this website out. http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp

Answer 10

Apes are more peaceful than humans.