A crazy magazine called TIME claims that we have 3 Billion base pairs in the HUMAN genome. And only 1.23% are DIFFERENT from the Chimp Genome!
How can that be if we are completely different from Apes?
Heres the article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1541283,00.html
2006-10-04 16:20:01 · 21 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You have been misinformed. What you have to understand is that as time passes, the world moves into new times and new things, and the human understanding must constantly be renewed. God makes all things new!
Beginning about 300 years ago, the human ability to reason brought about the Enlightenment, and with it the scientific revolution. For most people, the Enlightenment brought intellectual freedom and an opportunity to draw closer to a rational grasp of the reality in which we are immersed.
THESE PEOPLE ARE THE WINNERS.
There remained and still remain, however, a minority of people who do not understand the meaning, the power, the godliness and the beauty of that rational understanding, but instead find it frightening. These people prefer to remain with their incorrect understanding that in the past there were people who had a correct understanding of things that came from supernatural sources. These people insist that their faulty understanding of the older magical sources is the real understanding, and that those who have accepted the rational way of approaching reality must be wrong because modern people disagree with what the leaders of these regressive thinkers want their followers to believe.
THESE PEOPLE ARE THE LOSERS.
The winners win and the losers lose for the simple reason that REALITY IS WHAT REALITY IS, AND NO ONE'S WISHES TO THE CONTRARY MATTER AT ALL.
Evolution is a well understood process. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming, and all the winners accept the notion of evolution. Only the losers refuse to accept it.
Here is a web site that is easy to understand that explains in simple terms why the notion of Evolution describes reality correctly.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html
From this you will learn why the Godly, sane approach to reality is to accept the fact that Evolution explains part of the mystery of how God creates his creation, and why being afraid to accept the notion of Evolution is ungodly and based on irrational fears.
Please save your fear for fearing ("revering") God, and see if you can outgrow fearing reality. Leave the LOSERS behind, and become a WINNER. Relax, and let the Holy Spirit carry you into the real world.
2006-10-04 16:56:39 · answer #1 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In what way are we completely different? We live in close family groups, so do apes. We make tools, so do apes. We have hairy bodies, so do apes. we have binocular vision, so do apes. Chimps are the only animals beside humans that make war on their own kind. Bonobos are the only animals beside humans who use sex recreationally.
2006-10-04 16:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution thru Natural Selection. Humans also have some of the same genes as Sharks. Why is this so hard to believe and understand AND accept.
Another recent article says that the U.S. is second to last in the world in accepting Evolution. (Turkey is last) What does this tell you?
2006-10-04 16:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We're not completely different from apes. Religious fanatics can bury their heads in the sand and deny it as much as they want, it still doesn't make it not true.
2006-10-04 16:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by quietwater 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a rather dated idea. I don't know any educated people who have said that we have nothing in common with apes. We share common genes and share a common organism with lifeforms. This does not discount God as the Creator as he would also have created all life. The difficulty is in determining beyond a doubt which came first.
2006-10-04 16:26:25 · answer #5 · answered by reformed 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
genentically we are similar to apes but not the same. its that less than 2% that makes the difference between apes and humans.
and get this, we share similar genes with fruit flys and dogs, and probably slugs.
2006-10-04 16:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're not completely different, this is not a new thought. See more information in the theory of evolution.
2006-10-04 16:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by janicajayne 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It just doesn't dawn on you that a single Creator would use similarities in His creations, what were you thinking? He only needed to vary them a little here a little there and varieties,varieties, and more varieties.
2006-10-04 16:29:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Recent? We've know that since 1858, whoever told you that you were completely different from Apes was an uneducated fool.
2006-10-04 16:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by rich k 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That's just the point - we are not "completely" different. We are quite similar in many ways, but different in a number of very important ways as well. Does this disturb you?
2006-10-04 16:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋