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Bet you didn't expect so many of them to answer here, did you? Yes... unfortunately there ARE a lot of dumbasses in this country. :)

2006-12-04 02:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5 0

Primates are not a species of ape. Primates are an order, divided into species groupings.

Even the UN manages to recognize that humans and apes are different in physiology and rights.

2006-12-04 02:08:11 · answer #2 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 2 0

Humans are not primates. We evolved from a common ancestor, the Hominid. We are animals, Mammals just like the primates are though.

People should stop thinking of animal as simply meaning a low beast.

2006-12-04 02:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2 0

Humans are not a species of 'ape'...Humans and Apes are both Primates, in a manner of speaking.

2006-12-04 02:27:15 · answer #4 · answered by ... 4 · 2 0

Based upon Merriam-Webster online definition # 3, I believe humans are primates. I am a Christian, a Witness of Jehovah. I do not believe in "macro" evolution.

Definition # 3 basically says these are any mammals that have two eyes facing frontward side by side, hands with fingers and opposing thumbs, generally larger brains, "and that include humans...." (See below)

NOTICE: IT says Nothing about being a species of ape! (It DOES say they are included, but it is not restricted to them.)

Main Entry: pri·mate
Pronunciation: 'prI-"mAt or especially for 1 -m&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English primat, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin primat-, primas archbishop, from Latin, leader, from primus
1 often capitalized : a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation
2 archaic : one first in authority or rank : LEADER
3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals that are characterized especially by advanced development of binocular vision, specialization of the appendages for grasping, and enlargement of the cerebral hemispheres and that include humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers)

2006-12-04 02:06:52 · answer #5 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 2 2

In a general, taxonomic sense, yes, Humans ARE primates. If we wish to classify ourselves based on the same laws as we classify animals, then that conclusion is self-evident. Most every Christian I have ever known beyond simply seeing them in church has held this belief.

Now, does that by default make humans and apes decended from the same singular ancestor? That depends on one's evolutionary beliefs. Similar classification does not dictate similar origins, and is thinly stretched circumstantial evidence towards this idea.

2006-12-04 02:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Shawn L 2 · 2 3

Not all Christians feel this way. Theistic Evolutionists and other liberal theologies accept or entertain thoughts contrary to a strictly Creationist position.

2006-12-04 02:06:22 · answer #7 · answered by lostinmissouri 1 · 3 0

According to the scriptures, man is a unique creation apart from the apes or any other species. As there is not evidence to show that man is nothing but a primate, why would they believe such nonsense?

2006-12-04 02:04:36 · answer #8 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 3 5

Many scientists no longer accept it. They are now saying, you know, like Pluto no longer a planet, that man was a separate and distinct species.

2006-12-04 02:34:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

LOL I used to, before I became a Christian. How can you not believe something that is repeated over and over by your teachers from grammar school through college without mention of alternatives?

I took an evolutionary anthropology class in college that left me with doubts about evolution that I didn't have before, so it actually prepared me for my Christian belief today that humans (and all animals) were uniquely created.

2006-12-04 02:11:51 · answer #10 · answered by Nels 7 · 1 4

It is is the genes of a man to think he is Superior and not be compared to anything that evolved. I believe in it and it would be stupid not to. By the way we are still imperfect. As long as we have crime and vices that kill us we are really stupid.

2006-12-04 02:07:23 · answer #11 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 3 0

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