Why does the evolution story of humans evolving from apes sound so preposterous?

Answer 1

Because it is a fairy tale for grown ups!!!

Answer 2

Hello =)

I think that it only sounds preposterous to you.

Something that I have always advocated to people who do not believe that there is any connection between humans and great apes, is that they go to a place that has gorillas, like the zoo, perhaps, and look into the eyes of a gorilla. If you are truly honest with yourself, you will find something very human looking back at you.

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 3

The theory is NOT that humans evolved from apes, but that apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. We have evidence of the various human evolutions through time, but no clear evidence of that ancestor.

And MANY people believe there is no contradiction between Christianity and evolutionary theory. It is quite easy to see the parallels.

Answer 4

Because the Theory of Evolution does not say that humans evolved from apes.

Humans and apes are both primates. Humans and apes have a common genetic point at which their evolutionary paths diverged.

From UCSD Health Sciences News:
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2004/09_25_98_Varki.html

"The differences between humans and apes are physically and functionally apparent, but genetically humans are extraordinarily similar to apes, especially to the chimpanzee and the bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee).

“We are so close in our DNA that if you were a visitor from another planet analyzing DNA samples of earth species, you would assume that there were greater differences between chimpanzees and gorillas than between chimpanzees and humans,” said Ajit Varki, M.D., professor of medicine with the UCSD Cancer Center and the Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Varki is senior author of two new papers describing a genetic mutation at the root of a structural difference between an important cell surface molecule common in humans and chimpanzees."

Answer 5

I think it sounds very implausable, but I understand that reality does not bend to my views of the world [along with many things I find implausible, but accept to be true, such as quantum theory and relativity]. Its what the evidence points to, and probably the most widely supported theory in history, so I have no choice but to accept it.

Anyways, it is infinitely more plauible than the alternative, a magic skyman popped the world out of nothing, but he took 7 days to do it, then he popped all the animals out of the dirt, and man as well. Then man ate the bad fruit so he got sent away. After several generations of incest, skyman gets angry again, so he magically produces some water to drown al the people. Then he magically makes it vanish without a trace. Oh and he also gives the universe a very clear apparent age of billions of years, but this is just to test our faiths so we don't burn in fireland.

Answer 6

It does not.
I suffer from a genetic illness that is fatal, and will take my life
in a few years.
If God created man according to Creation, then he's the biggest
Jerk of all time.
I don't think God is that way. I can't imagine that God is "Intelligently Designing" all kinds of horrible illnesses just to punish or get revenge on mankind for Adam & Eve's consumption of the forbidden fruit.

I'll ask God to show me the truth, when I meet him in a few years. Too bad you won't be there to get the answers.

Answer 7

Yes. It does sound crazy. But the alternative, that some man in space created the whole world in 7 days and everyone came from one man and one woman and then there was a flood and Moses parted the sea and on and on and on...that sounds perfectly reasonable to you?

Answer 8

Evidence in museums all around the world, bones in different stages of evolution, human and animal, make a little more sense to me than the invisible man in the sky,and a book that says youre gonna get burned if you dont listen to 10 rules and simultaneously process' trillions of thoughts simultaneously per second, yeah sure i think im gonna stick to real world i wonder if they believe in the easter bunny and santa and aliens probing them at night, oh well, to each their own i still enjoy everyone

Answer 9

I think the theory goes that we evolved from a "common ancestry" - not quite the same thing. Doesn't detract from the Bible. Our journey into Humanity is secondary to our real Goal.

Answer 10

If you've seen who I've dated in the past it wouldn't seem so preposterous at all!!

Answer 11

I'm guessing it's the 3% difference in our genes. I mean, that's a whopping amount of difference isn't it? How silly just to think that a mere 97% match of genes was going to fool us!