We came from APES, do you agree with that?
By chardyme
@chardyme (1631)
Philippines
June 17, 2009 5:50am CST
Will you accept that you came from apes? That our roots and ancestors are apes? As Charles Darwin insists that all humans came from the apes based on his Evolution of Theory. Or do you believe that God created mankind from Adam and Eve out of nowhere and purely base everything in the bible?
Which theory will you accept and believe, Charles Darwin's or the bible's? This has been very controversial issue between scientists and religious practioners way back the time that Charles Darwin insists his scientific discovery. It has been a long time issue that many have tried prove which human roots should we believe.
You, as a new generations of apes as Charles Darwin insist, will you accept this theory that you can from apes? But how come that there are still many apes existing in this world that does not evolve anymore as human? We may similarities with apes with our body structures but I will not believe this theory and will still believe in what I believe in from the very start that I exist in this world.
I will not accept that I came from apes? Look at my picture, does apes look like that? This may be a never ending issue of proving what theory to believe in but I will never accept Charles Darwin's theory.
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4 responses
@Bloggership (1104)
• Indonesia
18 Jun 09
I don't agree with that... However, i do ever join a discussion like this before in Christian topics or GOD, or maybe Religion (i forgot which one is it). Anyway, there was a reply that saying like this; "If those APES where evolute into humans, so there would be no APES now".. That's quite a logic clarification i think.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
21 Jun 09
It's illogical and based on a complete misunderstanding of what Darwin wrote to say that 'If apes evolved into humans, there would be no apes.'
The complete opposite is true. 'Evolution' does NOT mean shape-changing. It means that the children of one generation may be slightly different from their parents and may learn new skills and be better adapted to a changing environment than their parents were (and so more able to survive).
Darwin's thesis is that both humans and the several species of ape are all descended from a common ancestor species (which, in turn, was descended from a common mammal which became differentiated from the reptiles many millions of years before that).
You may or may not choose to accept that 'theory' (which, in the light of further research has been proven to be broadly true) but please do not misquote it!
@Redhornet117 (1248)
• Philippines
21 Jun 09
Charles Darwin never said anything about Apes becoming man through evolution. What he said was, life came from multiple instances of natural selection, and that in nature only the strong and those who can adapt to change can survive. And that life didn't materialize in a spontaneous act of creation also. Man evolved from a species of prehistoric man, which can be made comparable to an ape like appearance but nevertheless it is still of human species. Right now humans are still evolving kids of our generation are developing more faster brains. Little by little we do eveolve. It is a never ending process. And as for your picture...
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
21 Jun 09
Charles Darwin did not say that we came from apes. What he said is that humans and the many kinds of apes today appear to have a common ancestor - a creature with ape-like characteristics from whom, over time, different individuals arose, becoming more specialised and adapted to their environment from one generation to the next.
People point to the fact that there are still apes in the world as evidence that we aren't apes but, in fact, this is the main evidence that we are 'apes' (or, rather, descended from a common stock). On a larger scale, both apes and humans are mammals which, in turn, became differentiated from reptiles and birds many billions of years ago. Each branch of the tree slowly gained different characteristics through changes in the code that is common to all life on Earth - DNA. It is this code which is the true miracle of creation and, because it is still dynamic and changing as it always has been, the reason why Creation is not an event in the past but something that is actively happening all the time, even in humans. The fact is that our lives and even our written history are far too brief and our normal perception rather too coarse to observe this process. It is only the quite new science of microbiology which can prove conclusively that it is. Darwin first observed that there were different but related species of certain birds and other animals on various Pacific islands and concluded (with the help of older theories which people seem to have forgotten about) that these species must originally have come from just a few individuals which had, by accident, landed and settled on these islands. This prompted him to write 'On the Origin of Species' (in which the word 'evolution' is never mentioned, by the way) and, later, the 'Descent of Man', which is the book that caused so much controversy.
The apes that exist in the world today do not 'evolve into humans' because they are apes and they have followed a different path to ours. There is actually surprisingly little that sets us apart from apes and other mammals. We have evolved a larger and more complicated brain than the other apes; we have developed vocal language and there are differences in our manual dexterity but all of this can be shown to have happened during the last few millions of years, which is but the blink of an eye in the history of the earth.
Looking at your picture, I would say that you are a very attractive 'ape' because you are female and a member of my own species. A gorilla or an orang-utan may not have quite the same perception! You are smiling, though, which both humans and apes do as a sign of pleasure and willingness to be friendly.
The Bible was first written down long after the stories in it had been passed on from generation to generation as a verbal tradition of the history of a small nomadic Middle Eastern tribe and of myths and rationalisations of how the world and the human race in particular came into being. The Creation myths, themselves, can be shown to be adaptations of earlier myths which are far older than the relatively recent belief in one supreme God who alone should be worshipped. This in no way invalidates the wisdom contained in the Bible. It merely puts a different (and more reasonable) emphasis on what is the truth (and what is not). It is not so much that the Bible contains untruths: it is merely that the truths it holds are contained in parables, metaphors and figurative language which many people today, brought up in the atmosphere of factual rather than poetic truth, have completely failed to understand.
@kaguvkov (1318)
• Davao, Philippines
17 Jun 09
I don't think that theory is true. It wasn't proven until today. The monkeys in the zoo are still there and all the animals seems never evolve in the jungle. I think Darwin's theory is basically a scrap and no basis at all. If it takes millions or thousands of years to evolve then as of today it must take effect because science claims that earth was around 3.5 billion years old. So whats the story morning glory?