for non-believers??????

Question

not trying to be rude just trying to understand,do you truelly believe you came from apes?

Answer 1

As a Muslim I believe that humans are the children of Adam and Eve (Peace be Upon Them)
If we were Apes then why aren't the present apes turning into humans? This is just a ridiculous theory.

Answer 2

The pure and simple fact is:Evolution cannot prove a link between
living cells and non-living matter.And even more incomprehensable
is the fact the human brain is so complex that it could not have
come about by mere chance.Example;when you see a new house
you know it had a builder,It did'nt evolve over a period time from
sticks and mud lying around.People can and will state and aver that
evolution is a proven fact.But that is just not true.Any scientist
whom has studied the complexities of the the basic cell,If he/she
is completly honest will attest to the fact that the chance of
random selection is firtually impossable. more and more science
is becoming convinced that intelligent creation is responsable
for the creation of all living matter.

Answer 3

No, because that's not what the science behind evolution tells us. You obviously need to learn something about evolution before you condemn it.

We didn't come from apes, apes and humans came from a common ancestor. Both species evolved from that common ancestor in their own ways, with adaptations to their environment and changes that helped each species survive in different ways.

And finally, I don't have to "believe" in evolution -- a belief is when you think something is true without having any proof. There's a ton of proof that evolution by natural selection is the way that all life on earth has come to be the way it is today...that has nothing to do with belief, it has to do with rationally examining the evidence and understanding the science. No faith or belief needed.

Answer 4

I'd say it's as possible as anything else, yeah. I weigh it out something like this:

Evidence of evolution: fossil records, DNA, and observation combined with a little inference.

Evidence of God: still waiting...

Science: Produces real results. Inventions, innovations, advancements in technology and medicine. Plenty of medical advances have and will be made by understanding the concept of evolution.

Religion: Produces no real results, only the "placebo effect". Not to mention it all sounds exactly the same as ancient mythology, and probably had similar origins, and we now know that stuff is false, right? Is a thunderstorm the result of a cold front meeting warm air and destabilizing the atmospehere, or is it a god having a temper tantrum? Current religion is no different. It takes a biased perspective and selective perception to believe it with any certainty.

Just my opinion.

Answer 5

Humans *are* apes, descended from earlier apes. Our closest relatives are chimpanzees, and the most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

The way to understand our origins is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.

Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to survive and reproduce).

However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

NB: The reason we're classed as apes is that there is no valid way to group all the other apes together that doesn't also apply to humans. In other words, whatever criteria you use to define what is an ape, in order to include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangs and gibbons, humans will also fit those criteria. Indeed, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas, and gorillas are more closely related to humans and chimpanzees than they are to orangs, so any classification that separated humans out from those other apes would not make any sense.

Answer 6

Well, Dad was sort of hairy. Really, though, the "Come from apes", "descended from monkeys" are all rhetoric designed to enrage or disgust and focus emotional energy against the concept of evolution.

The premise is that apes and humans descended from a common primate ancestor, not one from the other.


Well, watch tower is hardly an objective source. But, just for fun, if god is all-powerful and can do anything, why the complexity? And it's constantly changing complexity. Why not just make the universe (and us) all from non-descript, amorphous plasma or just plain stuff?

Answer 7

I don't know about that...but i do firmly believe that all things on earth are connected in some way...If we didn't come from apes, why then, are we so similar? That is mind boggling.



I had to correct something..(I DO believe that all things are connected...)

Answer 8

Ape-like ancestors.
More believable that coming from dirt, as Christians proclaim "from dust to dust".
You can't get something from nothing. Basic natural law.

Answer 9

No way! To think that a human evolved from a monkey just doesn't make sense. If Monkeys turned into humans, then why are there still monkeys? Wouldn't the process have turned all the monkeys into humans? If what there saying (about evolution) is true....then evolution just doesn't stop...it just doesn't choose who becomes human and who stays a monkey....there would be no more of that creature

Answer 10

In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd.