Do you realize that human beings are, most likely, a highly evolved form of APE?

Question

There's this "molecule" called DNA, which appears to exist in all life forms like ourselves, and us humans have something like 95% of this stuff in common with chimpanzees, a kind of ape.

Chimpanzees, obviously, don't really speak, and don't do a lot of stuff we humans do. Sure, they live in their little communities, but they don't have clothing, cars, restaurants or other trappings of civilization. They live off the land, love each other, murder, smell their own excrement, do lots of things that to us are primitive but to them are their "bread and butter".

Against your faith, or lack thereof, in a God, how does this make you feel?

Quiet.Buck: I think it's a matter of our capabilities, in large part thanks to technology.

I've referenced an ant colony in previous questions. Say you hermetically seal an ant colony, how can they survive? They will slowly use up available oxygen to breathe, they'll gobble up all their stores of food. Eventually they'll be walking around amongst their own excrement and other waste products.

Theirs is a much smaller environment, but the effect is the same, given time they'll burn themselves out. In nature among animals I think we see this less because of various natural ecosystems. One animal's waste is another's food, and these systems interlace in such a way as to make cycles that help nature sustain and renew itself.

Human beings with our technology can break these cycles quite readily with toxic chemicals, radiation, and other things that can decimate lower species and their habitats. Given enough resources, other species could surely do this as well.

Dan S: Well, let's look at that old goofy idea that a bunch of chimpanzees, given enough time, could write Shakespeare.

Let's assume that a group of chimps is given a typewriter at year 0, and for the sake of argument assume they have limitless paper and know how to use the freakin' thing and don't beat it Office Space style with a branch.

Generations of chimps type crap out on the thing. Some of the brighter chimps may start noticing that the letters form patterns. Other similar chimps who are active thinkers see patterns within patterns, and start fitting these building blocks together to form ever more complex words and phrases. Phrases become sentences, sentences become language.

Millions of years. Periods of existence we are hard-pressed to imagine. Many more generations of chimps have come and gone, and have left stockpiles of papers for future chimp scholars to sift through and build upon.

Seems a little LESS unlikely.

F'sho: We humans, too, are filthy animals. Look at your own excrement once in a while; call it fertilizer, concentrated evil, whatever, it's filthy and we produce it.

Answer 1

'Highly evolved'?

Answer 2

Its actually more like 98% and that 98% contains all the essential building blocks, the other 2% is almost insignificant. Don't you get it! We are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, and that other 2% will never make us like them.

Speaking of DNA, did you know that if you took an exteremley small amout, say the size of the tip of a needle, it contains enough information to fill books that would wrap around the world! What kind of "logic" thinks this happened by accident?

Answer 3

Actually we're not all that advanced from apes other than our inventive genius and various complexities of society.

It would be simpler to think of ourselves as the current ultimate form of terrestrial bacteria.

It's important to note that although we share 95% of our DNA with chimps, we probably share about 40% to 50% with any given creature on planet earth.

The only real differences (when it comes to the brain) are emotional capacity and intelligence.

Answer 4

Technically, people did no longer "evolve from" apes. to declare this could be pointing out that apes have died; evolution is the diversities in populations of species over countless generations. additionally, it quite is an invalid assertion because of the fact opposite to regular thought, evolution isn't linear. Species do no longer in simple terms grow to be different species over the years. Evolution is nearly a tree, and it branches. All organisms in the worldwide have descended from an early difficulty-unfastened ancestor. heavily appropriate species share a reasonably contemporary difficulty-unfastened ancestor, and much less appropriate species share a miles off difficulty-unfastened ancestor. people and apes, that are very heavily appropriate and share approximately ninety 8% of the comparable DNA, share a contemporary difficulty-unfastened ancestor.

Answer 5

If humans are so advanced and all like many claim. Explain one simple thing.

Why are we the only species on the planet that is destroying their very own habitat? No other species, lower or higher, does such an act.

Personally... humans are the lowest of all creatures for they are the dumbest of all creatures for this very act of destroying the very thing they need to survive.

Answer 6

I believe some of what I am taught and a little of what I hear. I'll apply the adaptationist approach when observing animals in nature to understand how evolution has taken place.

But, to be honest I tend to have a bit of skepticism in science because so much of what we learn is not set in stone.

And so much of what we have learned are theories that try to explain observations and with further observation theories are subject to change.

As how I feel...I curious to know what we might learn later.

Answer 7

I don't know..but your pictur looks like you are biting your teeth..... keep reading this..

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from meditating on knowledge. Real success comes from applying wisdom (not just knowledge) in our day to day lives. In summary, knowledge comes from the left/logical side of our brain, knowing comes from the right/intuitive side of our brain and the two halves of our brain constitute our mind. Our mind has a tendancy to talk to us incessantly. Our mind also has an ego that stops our higher self, our spirit, our true being, from gaining control over our mind and body. Once we learn to quiet the mind, our higher self has the chance to guide us towards enlightenment (which equates roughly to living in the moment, the present, the here and now).
We need the left brain to help us educate ourselves so that we may make a decent living for ourselves and our family, but perhaps more important is the education/use of the right brain in order for life to be rewarding and joyful! Only by utilizing the two halves together can we become whole. After learning how to utilize both sides of our mind the next step is to learn to quiet the mind so that we can attain wisdom and enlightenment. We must rise above the ego of the mind and find our higher self or true being. Thus the journey to enlightenment begins.

Answer 8

SO? Chimpanzees also have a facility superior to Homo sapiens which has recently been discovered. They are not so dumb after all.
All this proves is that both species are of the planet and share common traits. Why bring God into this?

Answer 9

" They live off the land, love each other, murder, smell their own excrement, do lots of things that to us are primitive "

how does that differ to us ?
yes even the smelling thingy eeekk ....

and there is a man who is now studying the language ... yes the language of the mountain gorilla

I am honoured to be part of such a wonderful family

Answer 10

Just make want to take a shower. I sorry as convincing as you were. I believe that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.. Now theres a story for you.

Judging from some of the answers though?
only foolin.

Answer 11

Yet we are (some of us) so distinctly different. But, if associating yourself to a filthy animal justifies your character and defines who you are than, that is your personal decision. I just don't like seeing this form of perversion and deadly moral depravity 'forced fed' to others as the school system has done to our children over the years. And, what is wrong with the kids today?