2007-09-23 16:49:02 · 16 answers · asked by protoham 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If we are related then we are all cannibals aren't we? When the first organism was created, what did it eat? There were no other plants or animals around.
2007-09-24 06:02:24 · update #1
That's an interesting question. Maybe if you go back far enough to the birth of the very first living thing before there was a split into pants and animals. Although that would have been sooooooooooooooooooooooooo long before anything even close to resembling a human or ape existed and so the relation would be so far removed as to not really matter.
Another way to look at it is that humans eat plants and you are what you eat so therefore humans are made up, in part, of plant-matter. And then when people die and decompose, their bodies feed the plants and so the plants are partly made up of human materials. So maybe in that way you could argue that humans and plants are in fact related. It's a big cycle. And of course based on this, you could argue that eating plants is a form of cannibalism. But thats a stretch.
2007-09-23 16:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by egn18s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly, we would have to be. Just think of how similar humans and the common house fly are. Both have two eyes, a mouth, a heart, a blood supply, a digestive tract.
EVOLUTION IS UBSERD!!!!
We have the same designer!! We are not related to plants, bugs or monkeys. Never were and never will be.
Evolution has been disproved for a good 30 years now and yet the charade goes on. Really getting old too.
2007-09-23 23:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by mikearion 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. We have the same exact genetic code.
There are enzymes in plants that are closely related to ones in us. We both have nuclei, mitochondria, golgi apparatus -- all kinds of similar organelles. Plants have some things in addition, such as cell walls and chloroplasts, but otherwise we are very similar at the cellular level.
There are even growth factors in humans which were first discovered in plants. They have a very similar DNA structure in plants and animals and they are both regulated by the level of calcium in the system.
We are distant relatives but the connections are very evident if you look closely enough.
2007-09-24 00:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
And if one believes evolution is NOT real, does that mean the bible says it's okay to disrespect nature, seeing as plants and humans are apparently not related?
2007-09-23 23:58:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sense that all things physical are made of matter. However plants, animals, dirt, etc... are all organized differently.
2007-09-23 23:54:24 · answer #5 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All life is related by common ancestry.
Evolution is supported by evidence in fossils and DNA. The theory best explains the change in species over time.
2007-09-23 23:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is real.
Plants and animals (including humans) developed from bacterial precursors.
2007-09-23 23:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course ... ever hear and see the Jolly Green Giant on the T.V. commercials ? That was Darwin's not so great, grand son !!!
2007-09-23 23:54:28 · answer #8 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution can't be real, otherwise humanity would have learned from 6000 years of failed religions, that faith and facts are opposed by nature.
2007-09-23 23:59:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't see why god mentions animals and plants going through evolution in genesis but not man.
Genesis 1:25
" And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
2007-09-23 23:52:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋