scientists say we're a primate, and therefore closely related to monkeys. if you go further back in the evolutionary tree you discover that our next closest relatives are shrews and lemurs and then you get to rodents!
thats right, next to monkeys and lemurs we are the close relative of RATS!
creationists - does that make it even worse? or do you not care if evolution says your closely related to a rat as well as a monkey.
2007-11-13 12:32:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-13 12:34:23 · update #1
'envirodude' doesnt really understand evolution. we share a close relative with orangutans and lemurs, but that relative is long gone as it evolved into various species which includes all primates. no scientist told you we came from orangutans.
2007-11-13 12:51:02 · update #2
yeah stephen gould aint a great source to use buddy
2007-11-13 12:53:05 · update #3
So, you believe that we came from Lemurs. Gee, there was a study about 3 months ago that said we came from orangutans. So, what is it evo boy? Lemurs or Orangutans?
Not only are evos desperately grasping at straws, but they evade the answer to the questions: Where did the matter that formed the big bang come from? Where did the energy come from that sparked the big bang? What'd it do? Spontaneously appear?
2007-11-13 12:42:31 · answer #1 · answered by Christmas Light Guy 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's right! We come from the same ancestor as Apes, and Apes, Humans, Monkeys and Lemurs have the same ancestor as each other, but this very muchly seperated. Even more separate is our relation to rats. But rats are not too different from us: we are both omnivorous, we can adapt to suit any climate, and we are both extremely excellent opportunists! Rats can be good natured, but also greedy and tricky. Same with humans!
So f-ing what!
2007-11-13 12:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we are spiritually connected to every living thing on the planet. We were all "created" from the same primordal mist that was before the Almighty Creator separated land from sea. Why, then, should it be awful to be related to monkeys, lemurs or rats? On the other end of the spectrum we are also related to the magnificent whale and free-spirited wild Mustang.
2007-11-13 12:46:31 · answer #3 · answered by moms2398 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe thats the reason we scientists have gotten away from using white rats for testing purposes. (Today we use lawyers, we get less attached to lawyers than the rats, and frankly there are somethings even a rat won't do).
2007-11-13 12:41:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares where we come from? The most important question is where are we going? Science is the attempt to explain what we observe around us everyday. No one should complain that they may or may not have come from monkeys, or rats, or protein chains (to go waaaaay back to the goo).
What they should care about is that this research can lead to a better understanding of the human body, which can help us all.
2007-11-13 12:39:20 · answer #5 · answered by Big Super 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
." New species almost always appear suddenly in the fossil record with NO intermediate links to ancestors in older rocks in the same region. The fossil record with its abrupt transitions OFFERS NO SUPPORT for gradual change". - Stephen J. Gould (Natural History , June, 1977, p.22)
"The extreme rarity (of transitional forms) in the fossil record persists as the 'trade secret' of palentology. The evolutionary tree (diagarms) that adorn our textbooks is.....NOT the evidence of fossils". - Stephen Gould (Natural History, 1977, vol.86, p.13)
"Evolution REQUIRES intermediate forms between species and paleontology DOES NOT provide them" (David Kitts, paleontologist and evolutionist).
According to Scripture NOTHING evolved but everything was created "AFTER ITS KIND"....which is directly consistent with the fossil record.
The thing to remember is that evolution is just a theory, a speculation, an unproven assumption....and NOT supported by the fossil record.
2007-11-13 12:36:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
I always thought it was an insult to say that my ancestor is a friggin monkey
Yeah some people might be idiots but I usually try to give them more credit than that
2007-11-13 12:37:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Genetically speaking, there's not a whole lot of difference between the chromosomes of us and the common housefly. So.... whatever toots your horn.
2007-11-13 12:37:54 · answer #8 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about 'close'.
We are closer to insectivores like shrews, hedgehogs, and moles, and to bats than we are to rodents.
2007-11-13 12:47:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hahahahahaha....
You know someone is beyond desparate when they resort to quoting Steven Jay Gould !!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-11-13 12:42:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋