Are creationists offended by the idea that humans come from apes because...?

Question

they don't want to be associated with apes or because the idea goes against the Bible or both?

Right, I meant are they offended by the idea that they share a common ancestor.

Answer 1

No person has ever given any concrete proof that humans came from apes! If we had a common ancestor with apes we would be able to reproduce with them. It is just not possible! Why? Because like the Bible says, everything was created to reproduce according to it's own kind! This is why you cannot cross a dog with a cat! The gulf between a human and an ape is even larger! If we were even in the same family, we would be able to reproduce a hybrid type of creature that would be sterile. For instance, if we could take a donkey and a horse, since they are in the same family it is possible to for them to reproduce. They would produce a hybrid mule. This mule would be sterile. Why? Because it has reached the limits of it's kind.

Real science only backs up what the Bible has to say about where we came from! We Christians KNOW where we came from! We were created in God's image.This is a far cry from an ape! This is why this ape theory does not hold water and is such a sorry explanation for the creation of mankind! It is a real joke to those that can still think for themselves ! Get REAL!

Answer 2

The Bible explicitly states that God created man in a single day, so the idea that humans evolved over time conflicts directly with what the Bible has to say. Plus, they think that it is a silly notion that humans could come from the same place as apes. To creationists it makes much more sense that an invisible magician in the sky created humans out of nothing and then those people committed incest to birth the human race as we know it. Hey! We're related!...Whoa...

(I have heard conflicting stories from Christians about whether or not the story of Adam & Eve is fact or fiction.)

Answer 3

They do not understand that humans are not from modern apes. We share a common ancestor with apes, but a chimp never had a human, and that is what many creationists think evolution is saying. It is ignorance about what evolution is that prevents many from considering it a possibility.

Answer 4

Dirt and water to be exact. Ask any scientist what our bodies are made up of. Our brains are 80% water. I used to work in surgery. When I walked down the hall with all the surgery doors open, the smell was like wet earth after a rain. We even smell like dirt.

Answer 5

Well, maybe YOUR ancestors came from apes. It is something I believe about illogical atheists, but Christians are descended from a superior Source....the Almighty!

Answer 6

I wouldn't say we're offended. We're just tired of people teaching our children a theory as fact when there is no evidence of it and when it goes against reason.
The human body is the ultimate machine. People have developed all kinds of efficient machines like the automobile but compared to these the human body is infinitely superior. It adapts to stress, it thrives and survives. It can even heal itself within certain limits. Certain cells regenerate; wounds and fractures naturally heal and the immune system can often overcome infections. And if you use this machine, it developes: If not, it shrinks and loses it’s function. Whenever we use an auto it wears out a little and finally malfunctions. But physical exercise causes humans to perform better at work or sports. And I haven’t even begun to mention the bodies amazing feats of data processing, analysis, synthesis, reasoning, inventing and creating.
The human body is a carbon based, chemically fueled, force-liquid-and-air cooled, bipedal, communicative, photochromatic, binocular, cellularly self-replicating, self diagnostic, self repairing tissuewisae, multidextrous, continuosly adaptive, computer controlled, biodegradable exhaust system machine, capable of short and long term memory with conceptual retrieval and integration, and precise decision making and creativity, able to copy it’s own DNA in the cells and to proof read the copies----truly an ultimate machine.
We know that to plan and construct something vastly superior like an automobile, it takes an intelligent human designer. An unbiased observer would have great difficulty denying the rational conclusion that the Ultimate Designer made the Ultimate Machine, the human body. One has to have a particular blind faith to believe that unaided molecules, arranging themselves by themselves with no intelligence to guide this arrangement(read……luck) could have created the Ultimate Machine, namely, humans.

Answer 7

The problem is that most people who think that humans descended from apes, evolutionists or creationists, don't even know what the real theory of evolution is and how it is looked upon by the Church.

Answer 8

Well humans are apes. So they must also be offended at the classification system that sorts out all the different species of life into distinct groups.

I don't think it really matters that we evolved from earlier apes, our most recent common ancestor that we share with chimpanzees existed millions of years ago. We've evolved so much since then. Well most of us anyway. =P

Answer 9

They really shouldn't feel that way, because people didn't come from apes. Not even current evolutionary concepts support that notion, most just say that humans and apes had a similar ancestor.

Interesting personal note, ancient human remains have been uncovered, but not any ancient ape remains. Wouldn't that suggest that apes came from people?

Answer 10

You make a subtle point. Probably both. If science says something different from the Bible, even if science says something vastly more pleasing (like we didn't evovle from apes, heaven does exist, etc.), fundamentalists wont like it.

However, even if evolution agreed perfectly with the Bible (which is doesn't) with the one exception that evolution says we evolved from apes and the Bible does not specifically state where we evovled from, fundalmentalists still would not like it, even though science mainly agrees with the Bible.

So both.