We came from chimps?

Question

I was just back on the main yahoo page and saw this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/sc_nm/chimps_hunting_dc_1

jonjon418 I know that...I just asked the question like that so it would be short...didnt want a long question.

Well Granny Annie Obviously you didnt really my "more detail" I asked the question as a simple one..nothing in-depth behind it or any meaning to it. Plus it was to get people to look at the link not **** about the question itself.

And not to correct you (I am guessing a typo) it is 98% of our DNA.

Truth in gods words? Have you have heard god? Or has he ever wrote something you can read?..I dont think so.

Answer 1

Doesn't really say that if you read the whole article...

Every species has followed, and will continue to follow an evolutionary path. That's just straight biological fact, and a wonderful feature of adaptation and self preservation.

What the path looks like is a bit more of a guessing game. Because science demands factual base (just saying "I believe it 'cause I read it in a really old book" doesn't cut it...) this is a perpetually changing landscape. Remember, it wasn't too many years ago when the Pope was persecuting Galileo 'cause he said the earth wasn't the center of the universe...

Humans (and other species) learn. That's a wonderful part of nature. So maybe there are newly discovered potential similarities between us and other species that we haven't observed before? Isn't it a good thing to ask these questions, carefully consider the evidence, make hypotheses, test them, come back and ask more questions? Even if you believe in god and creation, doesn't it make sense that he gave us our intellect because he expected us to use it? ("To whom much is given, much will be expected"?)

We may confirm several thousand years from now that we are historically connected to other species. We may have undeniable evidence at that time that we're not. That's the beauty of an open mind and informed discussion... you actually end up with real answers to good questions.

Answer 2

LOL...now try reading the article.

We didn't "come from chimps," but we both evolved from a common ancestor.

Of course, if you believe we were sculpted from the clay 6,000 years ago by a gaseous vertebrate called "God," I don't suppose such subtleties matter anyway.

"The 'science' behind evolution is quite shaky. It's acutally, so improbable that it's mathmatically impossible."

With remarks like this, you simply cease to exist intellectually.

P.S. TC - yeah I gotcha. But then of course you see idiots on here responding with the usual fundie bilgewater like the quote above, so just pretend my remarks are directed at them.

Answer 3

According to science, we evolved from one type of Ape. There were many prehistoric ape races that evolved, but one became the predominant species.

At one point in the prehistory, the evolved species came in contact one with the other (not so peacefully for as the evidence indicates), and even when some species were eliminated, others were absorbed the dominant one.

There is evidence today that support that statement.

Answer 4

Obviously you did not actually READ the article. It states quite clearly that human ancestors and chimp ancestors had an ancestor common to both, but that they themselves are NOT either one descended from the other.

The article is, however, incorrect in that it states that chimpanzees are our closest genetic relatives. Not so. It is the Banobo, once known as the pygmy chimp, which is our closest relative among primates.

Hope this unconfused you a mite.

Answer 5

The bible narrates many times on wich the people of the world fall into perversion and did really disgusting things, like related to having sexual intercourse with animals, and else, so, it may be no surprise, as the gemara says, that the monkey could have came of the man, and no otherwise, like a race of men, that been too much onto perversion that become like that. Is easier to believe, seeing people today that behave like pigs, maybe in some generations their sons will be pigs.

So, maybe those monkeys are coming back to be men.

Answer 6

No we didn't but yes we are closely related to them and we shouldn't be surprised when they exhibit the intelligence level usually seen in very small children and fundamentalists.

The "human evolution" they refer to in the headline refers to "traditional explanations for the evolution of such behavior in our own lineage." However, that last sentence does occur at the end of the story and is preceded by many big words so I suspect most creationists would miss it.

Answer 7

I believe Time magazine or National Georgraphic has some additional information on this subject if you would like to read some more.

To tell you the truth, I would not be so arrogant as to say that I know where we come from. I do know that we are here now.
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Answer 8

That is what the devil wants us to believe but God states clearly how human beings were created which was in the image of God himself. God isnt and never was a chimp. See the Book of Genesis.

Answer 9

I am writing this before viewing any of the other responses. There has NEVER been found a skeletal fossil that proves a stoneage man. The one that everyone knows about was , many years later, proved to be an hoax.

Answer 10

To be a bit more specific - we share a common ancestor with chimps. 99% of our DNA is similar to theirs.

At some point way back in history there was probably a mutation in some genes that eventually became our human ancestor.

Although the way some people act you'd think that they were still chimps.