Do you believe that MAN evolved from APES?
By seanah41
@seanah41 (67)
June 30, 2010 8:05am CST
I'm not exactly Darwinian, but I'm not really sure whether his theory of Evolution and Natural selections is True..we could see some resemblance of man to apes.. and to some of its predecessors but I'm not truly convinced... Our brain is a natural miracle .. I don't see any close resemblance to Apes..
What do you think? Did we really evolved from Apes?
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12 responses
@karen1969 (1779)
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1 Jul 10
Yes, I think it's true we evolved from apes, as we are so similar. On the News this morning, they showed a baby monkey crying because it got a splinter in its hand. The mummy monkey got it out then kissed the baby's hand better - just like we do! They are so human in many ways.
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
4 Jul 10
That is just a load of crap that a bunch of atheist scientists came up with to discredit the Bible. If we evolved from apes, there would be fossil evidence of the changes over the years. None has ever been found. God created the apes, and God created man...
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
5 Jul 10
I would humbly suggest that you read the book The Language of God by Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the Human Genome project. Dr. Collins is a scientist but he is far from being an atheist. He is in fact an Evangelical Christian and firm supporter of the process of evolution.
In 2009 he launched the "BioLogos" website that put forth the following premises:
1. The universe was created by God, approximately 14 billion years ago.
2. The properties of the universe appear to have been precisely tuned for life.
3. While the precise mechanism of the origin of life on earth remains unknown, it is possible that the development of living organisms was part of God's original creation plan.
4. Once life began, no special further interventions by God were required.
5. Humans are part of this process, sharing a common ancestor with the great apes.
6. Humans are unique in ways that defy evolutionary explanations and point to our spiritual nature. This includes the existence of the knowledge of right and wrong and the search for God. you can find the site here.
http://www.biologos.org/
I am not in full agreement with the premises put forth by Dr. Collins but they do provide some interesting food for thought and are in direct contradiction of the premises that you stated in your post.
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
2 Jul 10
No, I do not believe that man evolved from apes. I do know that apes and the human species evolved from a common ancestor. This does not require belief because the evidence is indisputable.
This evolutionary process took place in Africa and all people alive today share the same decent. To be more precise all life on this planet shares a common ancestor so we are not only related to apes but also to apples and ants.
@IsisGreen (554)
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23 Sep 10
Well yes, the evidence is pretty overwhelming, but that doesn't mean the conclusions, viz. evolutionary theory, are "indisputable". That's actually pretty funadamental to a committment to proper scientific practice.
Once you start claiming scientific theories as undeniable, immovable truth, you risk becoming as dogmatic as those who will blindly tell you the world is 4000 years old. The prevailing accepted theory, Darwinian Evolution, is our best understanding gievn all the evidence currently available and examined.
@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
1 Jul 10
What an insult to the apes! Kidding! :) I read this satyrical poem where the monkeys were vehemently opposing that man did not descend from them. They said - we don't steal, we don't kill other monkeys, we don't betray other monkeys, etc. so humans could have never descended from us!.
Seriously, I do not believe that we evolved from the apes. I am a believer that God created us all in His own image and likeness, and even if science cannot prove that while they're trying to say that evolution has left evidence, I still would believe the creation theory. I guess that is what faith is all about - believing without the need for evidence.
@IsisGreen (554)
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23 Sep 10
Sorry gloryacam, you're believing something DESPITE evidence. You're giving precidence to a line in a book you believe to be the literal word of God and ignoring millions of hours of research and study by some of the humanity's finest minds.
Please read Darwin's work or at least a good scientific explanation of evolutionary theory. Moreover, go to a museum like the Museum of Natural History and see for yourself the theory laid out with fossil evidence.
If you still want to believe after that that we all just got plonked on the earth a few thousand years ago, then fine, but please don't just be blind to the evidence.
@sonofmercury (407)
• United States
6 Jul 10
have you ever watched animal planet? monkeys kill other monkeys.And to set the record strait WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES!!!!! that's not what the theory says it says we share a common relative but either by accident or design out path was different. also the creation theory is not by the definition a theory, its called that to make people who believe it feel good a theory is based on facts not faith
@merma1267 (130)
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
NO... never be. Science is truly BIG difference belief from the Bible.. there's conflict every now and then. BUT the question is, if you believe in GOD and HIS word ( BIBLE ) itself..then you believe that never evolve from apes to man. surely, science gives theory and evidence BUT in the Bible.. is faith !!!
@sonofmercury (407)
• United States
6 Jul 10
see the comment I posted below. science and religion go hand and hand, science is a religion. religion is based on faith and stories science is based on facts
@alanasansall (11)
• Canada
8 Jul 10
No, man didn't evolve from anything. Humans were created at the beginning of time. Think about this: evolution starts out that there was a big bang, right? and that all life forms came from tiny molecules or atoms and evolved from thing to thing over millions and billions of years. But think...how can something as complex and miraculous as a brain just evolve?
It's like saying that a hurricane goes through a junk yard and forms a mass of pipes, lines, steel, etc. Then another hurricane adds a little more to the mass...and then another....you get the idea. In the end is formed - voola! - a plane!! It is a ridiculous assumption that evolution is true. And though some may argue that "missing links" have been found...wouldn't there be more evidence of it? Especially if it took millions of years for each creature to evolve! There would be ALOT more evidence!! And you may say that I have no proof that God created the world, of course I wasn't standing there with a video cam, taping, when God was at work!! But I certainly know that Someone (God) had a hand in creating everything!
If the earth were any closer to the sun, it would burn up!! If we were any farther from the sun, we would freeze! Everything is so precise, so exact. That can't happen from a big bang. One more thing...man was born with a conscious. Animals are not :) Hope this helps! (I'm not trying to make you a Christian or anything. It's just what I believe)
@IsisGreen (554)
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23 Sep 10
The consciousness point is something I'll conceed we don't have a clear understanding of yet.
However, on the big bang and the fossil record, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence of these.
On the big bang, we can say with a high degree of confidence that it occured 13.7 billion years ago. We can still see and hear it (with appropriate observation devices).
On evolution and the apparent coincidence that the earth supports life, I mean, what are the odds!. But you're committing a pretty elementary statistical error. We are observing ex post not ex ante. To illustrate:
Take a lump of rock in the universe at random. What is the chance that it would support life? 1 in gazillions. But we're only asking that question because we are on that one in a gazillionth piece of rock that does in fact support life. (NB. I'm not saying earth is the only rock that supports life.)
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
23 Jul 10
Theory of evolution does not say that man evolved from ape. What it rather says is that there is common ancestor, and the mechanism through which different species developed is through natural selection and variation etc.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
1 Jul 10
There is no doubt in my mind that monkeys evolved from man. All you need to do is walk down a crowded street in rush hour to see monkeys (who look like women) driving erratically,while putting on make-up, and drinking coffee at the same time, or doing some other crazy thing that only a monkey would do. I've seen monkeys mimicking men 20 stories up washing hi-rise windows. Monkeys paddling a canoe in choppy water without safety vests, and a monkey who looked just like a man, sleeping on the sidewalk on a cold night.Of course Monkeys have evolved from man! (how else would monkeys think of all the crazy stuff they do?)
@incus99 (1083)
• Philippines
30 Jun 10
Oh My Gosh...hell no!.. Men have higher intelligence than Apes.. the Man's hand has a palmer grasp which is not seen in apes..
@sonofmercury (407)
• United States
4 Jul 10
see comment I posted for islandtropic, incus99 apparently that was also meant for you :)
