2007-07-25 00:47:25 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sigh.
The short answer to your question is; Yes, and no.
Yes, because we are related to monkeys and in fact, all primates. Being that we are primates ourselves.
And no, because the story of adam and eve is a myth. Folklore, fairy-tale, call it what you will but it has NOTHING to do with reality.
Please understand that.
Edit, Kenneth seems to be under the false impression that the myth of adam and eve is real. Ask him for proof. One single solitary shred of credible proof.
Trust me, he won't be able to provide it.
2007-07-25 00:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda Green 5 · 13⤊ 3⤋
We are indeed related to monkeys, in that we are all primates, and have a common ancestor. Adam and Eve were created much later, as a myth of the Hebrew people. They were not created until after language was developed to tell myths.
Why does it so offend Christians to accept that word "myth" about their Bible stories? It's used about the stories of the gods and goddesses I worship all the time, and I don't care, and I daresay they don't care. It's just an academic term meaning that a story is symbolic of a truth, rather than being a literal truth.
2007-07-25 07:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No we are definitely not related to monkeys.
Adam and Eve and all land animals were created on the sixth day.
If you want to find out more about the folly of evolutionary ideas, check out this website. Loads of well researched articles.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3048/
To get you thinking:
All hominid fossils are either clearly human or clearly ape. Darwin expected that people would find countless 'transitional' fossils - half way animals between one kind and another. The fossil record demonstrates stasis of kinds, not change. There are just a handful of, highly controversial, transitional fossils.
When it comes to hominid fossils, history is littered with wishful thinking and downright fraud.
Evolution requires the addition of vast amounts of new genetic information. The proposed mechanism for this is random mutations. Yet all observed mutations are either information neutral or lossy.
Evolutionists have no answer to where this information came from. In reality, information implies intelligence. Creation implies a Creator.
What we see is various different 'kinds' of animals, with abundant variation within these kinds. For example lions and tigers can interbreed and are descended from a big cat ancestor. But note lions and tigers have less genetic information than their ancestor - they are devolved, in effect.
2007-07-25 18:32:26 · answer #3 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in evolution, sure we are related to all apes and monkeys and all other animals. We have a common ancestor.
If you believe in the fact that God created us and all animals, you could argue that God created apes and monkeys to look similar to us, but not like us to show us, that although we could look similar we are unique because we can think and make moral judgements.
2007-07-25 07:53:56 · answer #4 · answered by Monkey Chunks 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a much debated question, but personally I think that if you look upon the story of Adam and Eve as a sort of fable written to help people understand the history of Man, then the theory of evolution can still be accepted.
2007-07-25 07:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by mad 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
We evolved from a type of ape...Adam and Eve, ha. I am a strong believer in God...but the story of Adam and Eve is just a story. The Bible was written from man by man, not from God by man. Seeing as the only knowledge man had of creation at the time they had to come up with where we came from and this is the best they could come up with...Evolution wasn't discovered for a few more centuries...according to the Bible man was first on the Earth which has been proven wrong with the discovery of dinosaurs...i rest my case
2007-07-25 07:52:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Here we go. Not differentiating between reality and a fable. This is what happens, you get the two confused and start looking for something in your fairy tale so you combine the two and just confuse yourself. There was no Adam and Eve, no talking snake, nothing of that sort.
2007-07-25 07:52:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you believe, I'll play the other card here.
A lot of people will say science has proved we came from monkeys, it hasn't. Evolution still remains a theory. 97% is not 100%. A fact has to be 100% truth.
2007-07-25 08:05:02 · answer #8 · answered by mr.incredible 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If that storey was true all humans would be brothers, and the Jews/Muslims would not be fighting over a piece of dirt they both call the Holy-land.
Remember - the Bible was written by men who wished to control society with fear and lies, it was not written by God...
2007-07-25 08:04:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the bible, doesn't it say that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Able. Elementary biology will surely then tell you that we can't possibly have descended from them !!!
It's a fairy story.
2007-07-25 13:49:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋