Evolutionists do you really think you came from an ape? why aren't your ancestors respected now? why can they

Question

fly with you on a plane?

Answer 1

Did your parents have any children that lived?

Answer 2

No, I don't believe I came from an ape. Apes and humans had a common ancestor.

Our common ancestor no longer exists, so respecting them is not possible.

I have no idea what you're talking about re flying on a plane.

Answer 3

Grrrr! Seriously, go back to elementary school. Yes we evolved from apes and we still are apes (humans havent evolved beyond the animal world or the family of apes). I respect my ancestors, but there is no marked grave to leave flowers at. They cannot fly with me because they are dead and that particular species is extinct. Do you really think your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother is 6 years old? Your brain needs some blood.

And there is no such thing as 'evolutionists'. Its a science, not a belief.

Answer 4

"Evolutionists do you really think you came from an ape?"

Somewhere down the line we all evolved from a primate ancestor.

"why aren't your ancestors respected now?"

I respect all life. Just because you hold to the dellusional notion that all life other than humanity is beneath you is your own character flaw, not mine.

"why can they fly with you on a plane?"

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Answer 5

I know this is futile, but hey ho:

Humans *are* apes, descended from earlier apes. Our closest relatives are chimpanzees, and the most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

The way to understand our origins is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.

Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents, because reproduction is imperfect - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to survive and reproduce).

However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

NB: The reason we're classed as apes is that there is no valid way to group all the other apes together that doesn't also apply to humans. In other words, whatever criteria you use to define what is an ape, in order to include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangs and gibbons, humans will also fit those criteria. Indeed, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas, and gorillas are more closely related to humans and chimpanzees than they are to orangs, so any classification that separated humans out from those other apes would not make any sense.

Answer 6

Its only uneducated Christians that say science thinks we came from an ape. You're not an uneducated Christian are you?

If so, go learn that it actually says that we both came from a common ancestor. Maybe you'll learn something else interesting and educational along the way.

Answer 7

Creationist do you really think you came from a lump of dirt? Why aren't your ancestors respected now? Jeez. Think about this! Oh, and read the other answers. They are right. Its called a COMMON ANCESTOR.

Answer 8

A better question is how did you get past the 4th grade with that level of incompetency in sentence structure and that minuscule knowledge of science. Were you home schooled at Jonestown?

To a creationist would a dirt clod be a relative?? That would explain much.

Answer 9

We have common ancestors with apes. We are not descended from apes.

This not even arguable since the DNA of humans and primates is known.

Answer 10

No, I didn't come from an ape, I came from a single-celled organism. And they get on the plane for free.

Answer 11

Actually, according to scientists, humans did not come from Apes - and Apes did not come from humans. Rather we all share a common ancestor who was neither human nor ape.