why do some people who believe in evolution believe that we didnt come from some type of ape, if you go far back in time you will most likely see that it all started from one type of ape and split off into several differant species, for example there is many types of birds and the reason for this is that birds are very migratory and with that you have many types of eniviroments that will change the bird over time, so why is it hard to believe that we come from an ape like creature probably more dumber than a common ape of today
2007-02-07 10:17:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We did not evolve from the Great Apes! We ARE Great Apes. DNA doesn't lie. We use it to convict someone and condem them to death!
"The hominids are the members of the biological family Hominidae (the great apes), which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans."
2007-02-07 10:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Tirant 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's monkeys that we did not descend from. If you payed attention, the myriad times that people asked, "If we descended from x, why are there still x?" For monkeys, the answer is a common ancestor that was not a monkey. For apes, the answer has been a proto-ape supplied by many people. By the time that the great apes diverged from the lesser apes, the common ancestor was sufficiently ape-like that you would probably classify it as an ape. The proto-ape would not resemble any modern ape.
2007-02-07 18:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not that we did not come from an ape like creature,
for many years the idea of evolution was that Humans evolved from the Chimpanzee.
which led the Creationist to say, then why is there still a chimp?
this was incorrect thinking from the start, and bad teaching or over simplified teaching in the schools.
the theory of evolution is that Humans and Chimp's evolved from a common ancestor. the chimp to fit it's enviroment, and the human to fit their's.
I happen to be a religious man, but i will not try to say that i know all of the motivations and methods of the gods. prehaps they used evolution to create us. i really do not know where we came from, i am more worried about where we are going.
to me science fills in the holes in my religion, and my religion fills in the holes in science.
2007-02-07 18:25:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never, in all my years in biology in University, or through the rest of my life, spoken to someone (on the internet or in real life) who believed in evolution that didn't feel we came from the common ancestor of the ape.
2007-02-07 18:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's not that it's hard to believe. I just don't wanna be the one to break the news to the apes.
2007-02-07 18:28:30 · answer #5 · answered by Erica R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, I think most "evolutionists" would say we came from apes or some ape-like creature.
2007-02-07 18:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We share common ancestors with apes.
DNA makes that fact undisputable.
2007-02-07 18:23:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Come to think of it, I believe that Charles Darwin looks kind of simian.
2007-02-07 19:24:06 · answer #8 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you're a little confused by exactly what evolution is...
2007-02-07 20:16:51 · answer #9 · answered by Psyleet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never met one of those people.
2007-02-07 18:22:34 · answer #10 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋