If you find peace in believing your great grandpapa had sex with an ape's great grandmama go right ahead... I choose not too.
2006-10-17 20:15:01
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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I do not know what is wrong in believing that we come from chimpanzees? For example you can check up the human cycle that the intial human beings are not that much intelligents, not wearing any thing. But gradually human beings modified a lot. But still you can find in some forests and some hills that the same human beings are living a same life style which we lived before 500 years. May be the chimpanzees too were not changed their style.
2006-10-18 03:32:35
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answer #2
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answered by nagarjunababu 2
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The idea that human beings and chimps have close to 100% similarity in their DNA seems to be common knowledge. The figures quoted vary: 97%, 98%, or even 99%, depending on just who is telling the story. What is the basis for these claims and do the data mean there really is not much difference between chimps and people? Are we just highly evolved apes? The following concepts will assist with a proper understanding of this issue:
Similarity (‘homology’) is not evidence for common ancestry (evolution) as against a common designer (creation). Think about a Porsche and Volkswagen ‘Beetle’ car. They both have air–cooled, flat, horizontally–opposed, 4–cylinder engines in the rear, independent suspension, two doors, boot (trunk) in the front, and many other similarities (‘homologies’). Why do these two very different cars have so many similarities? Because they had the same designer! Whether similarity is morphological (appearance), or biochemical, is of no consequence to the lack of logic in this argument for evolution.
If humans were entirely different from all other living things, or indeed if every living thing was entirely different, would this reveal the Creator to us? No! We would logically think that there must be many creators rather than one. The unity of the creation is testimony to the One True God who made it all (Romans 1:18–23).
If humans were entirely different from all other living things, how would we then live? If we are to eat food to provide nutrients and energy to live, what would we eat if every other organism on earth were fundamentally different biochemically? How could we digest them and how could we use the amino acids, sugars, etc., if they were different from the ones we have in our bodies? Biochemical similarity is necessary for us to have food!
We know that DNA in cells contains much of the information necessary for the development of an organism. In other words, if two organisms look similar, we would expect there to be some similarity also in their DNA. The DNA of a cow and a whale, two mammals, should be more alike than the DNA of a cow and a bacterium. If it were not so, then the whole idea of DNA being the information carrier in living things would have to be questioned. Likewise, humans and apes have a lot of morphological similarities, so we would expect there would be similarities in their DNA. Of all the animals, chimps are most like humans,1 so we would expect that their DNA would be most like human DNA.
Certain biochemical capacities are common to all living things, so there is even a degree of similarity between the DNA of yeast, for example, and that of humans. Because human cells can do many of the things that yeast can do, we share similarities in the DNA sequences that code for the enzymes that do the same jobs in both types of cells. Some of the sequences, for example, those that code for the MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins, are almost identical.
Does a high degree of similarity mean that two DNA sequences have the same meaning or function? No, not necessarily. Compare the following sentences:
There are many scientists today who question the evolutionary paradigm and its atheistic philosophical implications.
There are not many scientists today who question the evolutionary paradigm and its atheistic philosophical implications.
These sentences have 97% homology and yet have almost opposite meanings! There is a strong analogy here to the way in which large DNA sequences can be turned on or off by relatively small control sequences. The DNA similarity data don’t quite mean what the evolutionary popularizers claim!
The more complex living things, in general, have similar DNA. The difference between the DNA of mice and humans is just 2%.
Humans and bananas have DNA that are 50% similar.
Anybody who believes in evolution is just not thinking straight. In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times. Do you really think that came about by just random chance........kind of like a monkey typing out the works of Shakespear just by randomly plucking away at the keys?
You need to step back and look at the big picture of what is being claimed by evolution, namely, that the unbelieveable complexity of the human brain(not to mention the rest of the body) is nothing more than re-arranged pond scum. It’s pond scum from the original prebiotic soup re-arranged over billions of years into 100 trillion connections in the brain by luck…..just random chance.........spontaneous generation......VOILA.....IT"S MAGIC.
You know the story about how the princess kissed the frog and it became her handsome prince? That story has a name. It's called evolution. Evolution says that frog did become a prince. It just took a few hundred million years longer. Might I possibly interest you in the story of the tooth fairy?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php
http://www.reasons.org/index.shtml
http://www.tektonics.org/
http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html
2006-10-18 04:01:35
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answered by upsman 5
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We probably come from a common ancestor, not directly from them. One doesn't not have to be a Creationist to be a Christian, one thing has nothing to do with the other. John 3:16
2006-10-18 03:17:55
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answered by Anonymous
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I have the same water in me as a watermelon, does that make us related?
spirit and soul, faith -relationship with God - that is what religion is about
You can not expect proof, since you can not prove evolution.
Just deal with the gray areas until you die - then you will know for sure
2006-10-18 03:17:19
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answer #5
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answered by Slave to JC 4
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Haha
we have 100 % same DNA chromosomes as pigs..only in a different order :o}
2006-10-18 03:12:10
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answered by Nikki 5
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What do Scientist really know? (read on)
The scientist may have made advancements in medicine, but is there any remedy that can allow us to claim, "Now there is no more disease"? Is there any such remedy? No. So then what is the scientists' advancement? Rather, disease is increasing in so many new forms.
I believe what I can see, touch, hear, and taste.
2006-10-18 04:10:14
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answered by nalaredneb 7
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We don't come from chimps, we and chimps share a common ancestor way back and have evolved down diverging paths but we are still closely related.
2006-10-18 04:12:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Why does it always have to be us coming from them? Hasn't anyone ever considered the Idea that just maybe the apes came from us, and we are actually devolving?
2006-10-18 03:29:40
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answered by Anonymous
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WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO THINK YOUR A MONKEY? or even related to one?
Check out this link if your serious about discovering some intelligent truth!
http://www.wayofthemaster.com/
2006-10-18 03:17:12
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answered by trieghtonhere 4
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