Does anyone believe that humans evolved from primates?

Question

Or that we were maybe placed on this planet as some kind of evolutionary experiment the first scenario is good from an evolutionists point of view. But how many creationists believe in the second scenario (if any).

We are not quite primates so just assuming that we are you are quite wrong we are 99.5% we are a similar granted so I we may have evolved from them or we may not have.

Answer 1

no one ever sees the big picture do they... good theory, but no carrot.

we are the missing link. darwin was wrong.

hte planet is in dire straits, and a bunch of folks get to leave and go search for sanctuary elsewhere. meanwhile back on earth, big bangs, and chromosomal damage = man becomes extinct, after devolving into the apes. ( genetically its easier to lose higher brain function than it is to gain it) and millions of years later those guys who left get returned, and grow into us... we look for the missing link, we see them, before our eyes, locked away in zoos... darwin gave the world a theory, discounted over time by advances in the sciences and our understanding. there is no evidence which will last a geological timescale, bar granite... who built stonehenge? we did, millions of years ago, as a testament to our technological advances... and millions of years ago we were more advanced than we are today.... but over hundreds of millions of years, all the evidence has gone. all we have is assumption and presumption.

Answer 2

I find the Christian theory very implausable, as it's been prooven that dinosaurs pre-dated us by 65 million years, and I am not slagging off Christianity or anything, which is why I shall explain what I said.

OK, first of all, dinosaurs pre-dated humans, however, in the bible, it dictates that the Earth was created in 6 days, and that animals were created a day before man, now since God had created light, and the sun and so forth, there must be a concept of the 4th dimension; time, so we know that a day was and is 24 hours.

This is why, even though I don't just say that religion is a load of rubbish, and I study it closely, I do believe in the theory of evolution, and that we are merely an end product of another form of animal, be it monkeys, fish, ameoba's, belly button lint, (just kidding), or whatever.

Also, if God is all-knowing and all-powerful, why would you want to experiment when you're creating something in your own image, this would be like doing a photo-copy of a god and getting a cat come out from the printed copy image.

I hope I explained my point of view well enough here, and that the answer gives you something to debat about, I throurougly enjoyed answering the question.

Answer 3

In the beginning GOD created the Heavens and the Earth.

This true statement begins with God. It is not an argument for his existence. It is a factual statement. It is also the opening sentence of Genesis and indeed the Holy Bible itself.

On the other hand we have evolutionists who are peddling a warped and ever changing theory based on a lot of assumptions, ie "we assume this was so"," we think that happened", "this may have been the case",etc etc.

Some evolutionists have stated that evolution could not have happened quickly,
and some have said that evolution could not have happened slowly,
I for once agree with both sides. It did not happen at all!

We are not descended from apes, neither are we an experiment. We are in fact the pinnacle of God`s creation, whether you like it or not or even if you believe it or not.

Answer 4

We are primates, we evolved from a common ancestor of the great apes ( gorillas, chimps, and orangutans ). I don't know why people have a problem with this, it really seems elitist in a way, we were born "better" than the other animals. The truth is our brains developed and we used our intelligence to dominate the earth.

Answer 5

Humans didn't evolve from primates. Humans are primates. We share a common ancestor with all other primates.

primate: Any of the order of Primates, which includes monkeys, apes, and man. (American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition)

Answer 6

We ARE primates. We are also apes. There is no conceivable definition of those two terms that doesn't include us.

We are more closely related to chimps than chimps are to gorillas. There is no way to define a group that includes chimps and gorillas but excludes us.

If we were placed on the planet as an experiment, then chimps and gorillas were too. There's no escaping the evidence from DNA and fossils.

Answer 7

I don't believe in sasquatch but I do except the fact that there may be an animal that is between man and ape that we have not discovered. If it is a so called sasquatch or something somewhere else in the world I can't say. I would believe in it when a body is brought in for examination. Until then they are simply a bunch of hoax videos and stories.

Answer 8

I believe that humans ARE primates. And that we evolved from lower primates who aren't around any more, and before that still more primitive creatures. I'm a science teacher and a non-fundamentalist Christian. I'm not a fan of Creationism at all.

Answer 9

Gee, last time I checked, humans were large primates, the same type as gorillas and orangutans.

If humans _evolved_ from primates, why are there still primates (other than humans)?

Answer 10

Yeah, Robbie Williams? Posh Spice?

Answer 11

Humans ARE primates.

Edit: YES, we ARE quite primates...lol. My god man, do just a trifling amount of research before you embarrass yourself like this. What you're apparently referring to is that humans share 94% of their genetic material with chimps. We are primates by definition, i.e. "omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability."