Try to indicate that you are on the side of Creationist Theory or Darwinian Theory.
2006-12-27 12:57:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Do you belive in the integrity of Charles Darwin?
Is there something suspisous about his sudden fame after the release of his Evolutionary Theory. ... Oh yeah he died a Christian...what does that have to say about the 'theory'?
----------------Its obvious he didn't belive-------------------
2006-12-27 13:06:20 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Knight M.D 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Our ancestors were not gorillas or chimpanzees. You people always get that wrong. The human genome can be traced back 8 million years to a small shrew-like mammal, Later the hominids like homo habilis and homo erectus came along. This line eventually led to us, homo sapiens sapiens. The gorillas and chimps are another branch of the same line but we all came from the same common ancestor. By the way, Darwinian "theory" is no longer theory. It is established fact, just as Einstein's relativity is established fact. When I think of what we could be if it were not for the curse of religion.
2006-12-27 13:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by kevpet2005 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A lot of good, evolutionarily informed answers here, so I will address the point I think is most pertinent. Belief has nothing to do with theory, which is a collection of well supported facts that has predictive power. It would not matter if tomorrow every evolutionary scientist in the world repudiated the theory of evolution by natural selection. It would not matter, because the truth does not need your belief to be true and something can be true whether you believe in it or not. My belief in evolutionary theory is supported by mountains of evidence. The creationist position of " truth " is only supported by their delusional belief. This is the truth-logic of why I am an evolutionary biology supporter.
2006-12-27 13:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, because that is not the claim of Biology. The proper claim is that we share ancestors with apes, gorillas, monkeys and lemurs when you go way, way, way back. The "human" linage has been traced back over a million year and even that back, our line was well separated from the lines of the other primates which separated from each other at various points multiple millions of years ago. Examination of our genetics shows a high percentage of genes in common with other primates, but also shows the common parts separated long ago.
We are not "descended" from apes as Creationists like to charge Evolutionists with claiming, we are all descended from a common ancester way back.
2006-12-27 13:05:46 · answer #4 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am on the side of the truth.
Neither Darwin's theories nor the multitude of other theories dealing with the origins of life make any attempt to explain the truly original origin of the energy and materials needed to produce life in the first place - all of these theories start with the building blocks already available, and then go from there. None of theses theories start with "nothing" and then tries to explain all of the intricacies and examples of modern life.
I don't believe Creationist theories and Darwinian theories are necessarily mutually exclusive. Science does a good job in answering and explaining a multitude of questions - there are questions, however, that science simply can't answer - and that's when Faith fills in the gaps.
2006-12-27 13:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Look at birds,1000's of them. The same as birds, but different.All are descendants of dinosaurs.Scales on them like lizards and snakes.External eggs,we form with internal eggs,Still eggs.
Primates have 98% the same DNA as us,Cruel joke by God?Divine intervention would make us 98% different.I've owned monkeys,up close they are just like little people.Religion is man made for control over the masses and a lucrative one at that.They are as us from the same tree of primates.
2006-12-27 13:19:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe it. I believe in evolution sure, survival of the fittest and all, but we were once monkeys? I don't think so. I believe we were created by a god, and maybe gorillas and chimpanzees were just his first attempts gone wrong, or he put them here so that he could get a good laugh out of the people saying they were once monkeys.
2006-12-27 14:28:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Men and gorillas and chimpanzees came from the same ancestor, not from each other. Only God could make evolution happen in this way. Evolution is God's favourite tool for making new forms of life.
2006-12-27 13:01:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
No. Gorillas & chimps are not our ancestors. We share a common ancestor with thim. To say they are our ancestors is like saying your 3rd cousin is your great great grandmother.
2006-12-27 13:02:42 · answer #9 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yeah i believe they are our ancestors. Reason is that we humans still have hairs on our body. We still behave as though we are immature. SO did u get my point?
2006-12-27 13:07:22 · answer #10 · answered by Chocogal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no.... gorillas and chimps evoled along with us... from a common ancestor... everything changes over time...adapting to the changes in the environment... so we did not evolve from anything that is here now...
2006-12-27 13:00:57 · answer #11 · answered by curious dad 3 · 10⤊ 0⤋