I don't understand why some people have such a problem with this concept. Do they feel that it in some way dimishes them? Is it because the fear that having a common ancestor makes them less human? Does it cause them to doubt their faith? Whats the big deal?
2006-09-27 12:11:23 · 15 answers · asked by trouthunter 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is their common belief that we are better than everything else in nature.
2006-09-27 12:15:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I was watching this program on the history channel, and that very subject was on, they the scientist claim we were a different type of ape, and that other apes showed us how to use rocks as tools. To me it didn't make much since that an ape is responsible for teaching us buy us watching them, because if that's the case what taught us how to eat and so on until we were able to learn on our own, true take a new born baby and place it with an ape family that will care for it and it will be an ape
2006-09-27 19:36:34 · answer #2 · answered by man of ape 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately your second guess is most likley the more accurate. The seperation of church and science is one that has gone on since the begining. To admit one is to deny the other. The bible as we know it, states that man was created from god in the form of adam and eve. As we know this not to be true the church has not offered up any "interpretational" insight as to the likleyhood that we have all come from our single celled ancestors.
2006-09-27 19:17:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mark K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apes are creatures that were made by God on the sixth day: Genesis 1:24 and 25.
God created man in his own image, on the seventh day. Genesis 1:26 and 27.
2006-09-27 19:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by babe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because for nearly 2,000 years we were told that man came from God's own image. When Darwin came along, Christians of the world collectively went "Aww crap." Its a theory that makes people think "Well if that part of the bible is obviously crap, than is the rest of it?" Evolutionary theory deals a serious blow to Christianity as well as many other religions, thus the heated controversy.
2006-09-27 19:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have more of a problem thinking that some of my ancestors were medieval-minded bullying theists incapable of rational thinking. Fortunately most of these relatives died out a thousand years or more ago, and there are no more people about like that.
2006-09-27 19:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bibble tells Christians that man has dominion over the animals and then along comes beastly old Evolution Science and ruins it all by telling them that in fact animals are really mans relations...you might have to think twice about hunting them and killing them and eating them and skinning them etc.
2006-09-27 19:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes us down a notch, in some people's eyes. It reminds us that technically we're animals too, just like all the other lifeforms on earth... very intelligent animals (at times anyway) but animals nonetheless. People want to believe that we're particularly special, but really, if you take the time to think about it, we're not. People don't like to hear that, but in the broad scope of things, we're not.
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2006-09-27 19:15:33 · answer #8 · answered by . 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
People like to think they are more important than they are, not just an inconsequential animal.
2006-09-27 19:15:09 · answer #9 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-27 19:13:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋