Honest Qustion for Christians. Sorry, but I'm really trying to understand where you guys are coming from, I

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figure if I ask questions it will help me to understand. Ok so here's the question.

Now I am assuming most of you have been to a zoo, or have watched apes and monkeys on television and too a lesser extent primosimians, apes, being the closet, Chimpanzees in particular. Now, I've heard people say we didn't come from a common ancestor and that we don't look like apes. REALLY! Are you kidding me. I mean, there is obviously a resemblence. Compared to like Elephants, dogs, ect. Finally, we know that a chimp shares 99% of our DNA. I guess I'm trying to figure out how you guys rationalize this? I really don't understand how you sweep that under the carpet. Explain Gods reasoning for making something 99% the same as us. Honest answers please and sources will help, thanks.

Answer 1

well, look at two different paintings by the same painter. They are clearly different paintings, but there can be many things that they share in common, like colors, design, etc.., The whole idea is that similarities don't indicate a common descendant, but a common creator. Or when you look at an air plane from the 20's and a jet plane made today, there are many similarities, they both have wings and rudders, etc.. but they are obviously different. They just come for a similar design.

Answer 2

Similarity is not the same as chronology. Almost all animals are similar to other animals, which is why scientists group them in Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, and Sub-Species. Just because two (or more) things have common traits does not mean that one is descended from the other. Airplanes and Cars have similar elements, such as doors and pedals, but one was not based on the other. The modern automobile and airplane were invented around the same time. If you look hard enough, you can find other people who look like you, but that doesn't mean you're related.

If you study DNA in depth, you'll learn that most alleles are devoted to very simple characteristics of living organisms, like how to build cells. The incredible variety you see among humans and other primates is derived from a small collection of genes that create many different combinations when compiled. Think about words. Every word in the English language (hundreds of thousands of them) is formed from only 26 different letters, and most using only a few letters. And there are many combinations we don't use, such as phlt, because of morphological constraints. Great complexity can come from simplicity.

If you're really interested in this stuff, check out a book called "What's Darwin Got to Do with It". It provides many arguments and counter-arguments for and against evolution and creationism (aka intelligent design).

Answer 3

You are using faulty logic. Just because something looks like something else and has many similarities does not make it a relative or ancestor.

Sorry to sound crude but take this example.
If someone ate a steak and then went to the bathroom and their product looked like chocolate, does that make it chocolate. It sure looks like chocolate.

And just because DNA is 99% doesn't mean anything either. There is no proof of the transition from ape to man. It is just an assumption. To be honest there is probably never going to be inconclusive evidence that man evolved or didn't evolve from apes.

Until that day though be careful that what you eat is actually chocolate.

Answer 4

Genetically you are also remarkably close to a fruit fly. The simple fact of the matter is that there is no evidence that any species has mutated or evolved into another species. The whole theory rests upon the unprovable assumption there is no Creator, therefore they assert evolution is the only possible rational alternative. A few however have opted for the theory of aliens putting us here. These are actually closer to the truth.

Answer 5

I'm going to start by pointing you to the second LAW of Thermodynamics. Without guidance, energy and force, all matter will eventually fall to its most base form. The THEORY of Evolution goes in the opposite direction, and pre-supposes that matter randomly and without energy or direction, orgainized itself into the marvelous, stunning, remarkable single-celled organism. Therefore, if we were to adhere to your erroneous THEORY, this marvelous blue planet would, at the moment, be about four feet deep in your marvelous single celled organisms. Your THEORY essentially suggests that in an automotive scrapyard, random car parts would somehow organize themselves into a perfect working car, without the intervention of any other entity. While we may share the DNA of apes, we also share the DNA of plants and countless other animals. This, in no way, disproves the biological absolute that life comes only from life, and as a result, chose whatever faith gives you solace. Somewhere, somehow, sometime, there was deliberate and intelligent force that brought us into existence.

Answer 6

Take a walk through any great Art Gallery with paintings done by the "Masters" .. will all of the paintings be the same? no.. will they be similar? yes.. many of them will be over 99% similar.. and yet each one was created by the same person...

same thing with cars.. start with the Model T and word forward in time to modern cars... did cars change? yes.. did they evolve? NO!! each one was created...

While I'm at it.. I don't acknowledge ANY proof that dinosaurs even walked the earth.. there is only proof that we have bones in the ground from things that we THINK walked the earth.. there is no written record of them walking around.. but perhaps this record (and the fossils themselves) were created in the beginning just as they are today...

People have been doing genetic research on Fruit flies for over 100 years.. nearly every graduate student in most forms of biology were required to raise and study them by the thousands for research... did even ONE of these fruit flies lay an egg that hatched into something besides a fruit fly? NO!.. thousands of generations and yet not even ONE changed species...

I don't know exactly how everything got here.. and most of the time I really don't care.. but it does bother me when people talk to my children about things that are part of a theory as if they are fact and only mention at the very beginning of the course that it is a theory.. from then on you don't hear that word but you hear things like "this species developed from that species" instead of something like "we think that this species developed from that species BECAUSE these similarities are present"...

My faith does NOT require proof.. but to change my beliefs I DO REQUIRE PROOF...

EDIT for SheRocks.. if Science had PROOF of evolution then it would no longer be a THEORY.. but it is still a theory.

Answer 7

Because he is God. He could have made us to look like and share the same DNA as a Great White Shark if he so desired. I am not him, and will probably not be able to answer your question in a way that satisfies you. Why don't you ask him yourself, repent of your sins, read and study his Holy word, and pray to him for the answers. But when he gives you the answer, email me. I have been save for 4 years and there are still thingsthat I cannot comprehend. But there were alot of questions that he has answered. Try him and see. I bet he will satisfy you completely.

Answer 8

Actually it's not 99%, it's 95%, and why shouldn't we share some genetical information? We breathe the same air, drink the same water, and eat some of the same food. Why would God make different genetical information for an animal that has all of the functions that we have?

Answer 9

Then DNA all by itself may not be the answer then, is it? Besides the fact that this is merely our current understanding of genetic material-and that may change soon-assuming your' right, then why are men and chimps so DIFFERENT? In other words, since were sooooo close; would you consider marrying one? I would hope the answer would be no. God made man-not chimp-in his image and likeness. That's why, despite our similarities , man and chimp are, and always have been-miles apart. You and I are human beings, created in the image of God. Chimps are animals.

Answer 10

If we evolved from apes....why are there still apes around? I don't understand the logic of that kind of evolution if there were some left behind. Please explain that for me.

Doesn't it stand to reason....logically and scientifically speaking....if there were a need in nature for a species to evolve to a different or higher form for its survival, that the lower, less sophisticated form would evolve or perish? It simply is not logical for the lower form to co-exist with the newer better model.