If Humans Evolved From Apes...

[dgridley]

If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Here's one answer:

Humans did not evolve from apes, gorillas or chimps. We are all modern species that have followed different evolutionary paths, though humans share a common ancestor with some primates, such as the African ape.

To say we are more "evolved" than our hairy cousins is just wrong. (See how long you last naked in the Congo Heartland, and then tell me who's got the evolutionary upper hand.)

http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070215_humans_primates.html

 

[peaches017]

Mind you that evoloution, Darwins theory and big ban theories are just theories. Just like scientists believe that religion is just theory. None are base on facts just studies.

IF science is so exact, why did the Carbon Dating change so many times? Why is there no cure for Cancer and other big time diseases? Science is no more exact than Religion. Hence why the big discussion between Science and Relgion. Why there is always such a debate between the two. Neither proving or disproving the other.

IF you really thing about it, Science and Religion coincide. Neither acknowledging the other. Which is such a pity. Always an arguement to prove what? and nothing proving on either side.

Both Sides need the other.

Hence recent recent studies saying that those who pray are more likely to rapidly heal in medical surgery or related incidences. As opposed to those who didnt pray. Some will say mind over matter, but ny is the answer. Both Science and religion conicide. But deny each others existence. Such a pity that that each do not recognize the other in the full realm of its truthfulness.

Well written. +Rep

A very Camerlengo-esque (from Angels + Demons) writing.

 

[Dave_Z]

Mind you that evoloution, Darwins theory and big ban theories are just theories. Just like scientists believe that religion is just theory. None are base on facts just studies.

More like fantasies, actually.

 

[{insert name here}]

Ill have one, just let me get down from this tree

I often think about how disadvantaged we'd be in the wild if we didnt have weapons, were pathetic really, compared to most 'animals'

we have the greatest weapon of all, the mind, reason.
If you were forced to live in the wild, with a small tribe for the rest of your life, you could out think and out smart your predators.

More like fantasies, actually.

really, religion is a crutch so people are not afraid to die, and also is mans way of trying to prove to himself that life has more meaning than eating, sleeping, breading and dying.
and science is mans way of trying to understand everything, but the only flaw with science, is its man made.

 

[homebuyer]

Monkey Transit

I rode the bus to Berkeley the other day. The woman sitting across from me smelled like a monkey and was eating a banana. Another rider had headphones on and was jumping up and down like a monkey. As I was exiting the bus I checked my credit card account balance and learned that I had just won a domain auction. I sounded like a screaming monkey. We are what we are. OOOooooaaaahhhAAAAhhhhaaaa...

 

[Zinc]

I'd like to see an ape, gorilla or chimp post a message here at Namepros. I, on the other hand, can post a message and act like a monkey anytime I feel like it.

Given enough time, a chimpanzee typing at random will almost surely type out a copy of one of Shakespeare's plays.

It's an odd thing evolution, the human 'tree' is the only one which has continued in a straight path and has not deviated sucessfully to produce a parallel line of evolution, unlike other mammals, reptiles, birds or aquatic creatures. Anything which did branch off was either cross bred back into the equation (Such as when hairless long slender Homo Sapiens met our hairy short stocky Neanderthal cousins) or became extinct very quickly.

 

[iNod]

The fact that religion discouraged the thinking of science is why there is a debate.

DNA studies on the human DNA have found that we have basically a totally different DNA sequence than that of the Ape.. It doesn't really mean anything, other than we arn't apes but what it does mean is if we did evolve from Apes.. We started so ALONG time ago. However if you take our DNA and compare it too that of other mammals you will find certain areas that match.. Such as the horse, and pig. Does this mean we evolved from horses and pigs? No.. Does that mean we have a common ancestry probably.

Is any of this fact? No.. It is purely science and guessing.. As everything pretty much is.. We get peices and parts and use logic to peice them togeather..

- Steve

 

[Ixix]

just out of curiosity, can a baby drink chimpanze milk?

not trying to be funny or gross....but i'd think if we were 'genetically' similar that chimp milk would be more nutritious than cow milk

i dunno...

as for my opinion, I could close my eyes and say that the sun doesn't exist...but that doesn't change the reality that the sun doesn't exist. The world is far to beautiful and far to perfect to get here by accident or by random. look at our cities, inventions, and innovations...it took planning and design and didn't happen by accident. The universe is far more complex and marvelous than anything man's ever invented. So how can we at will deny the existence of God...even if there is a similarity between us and the animals?

 

[lpstong]

Is any of this fact? No.. It is purely science and guessing.. As everything pretty much is.. We get peices and parts and use logic to peice them togeather..

- Steve

Umm I kinda really know this. Unlike a chimp who plays with the circle peg and trys to insert into the square peg.

I believe this is called common sense and or Human intelligence. If chimps, dogs. dolphins etc. had equal intelligence to the human we would be the same. So by all means to the definition of similar and same. We are not the same. Chimps, whales and humans may be mammals, but apples and oranges are fruit, but no the same kind. So I am sure there are many deductions that can be made without having a scientific background. Basic human intelligence and or common sense comes into play.

Just like philosophy, religion and science, all require some simple steps of thought. Deducing, rethinking, analyzing.

As far as religion goes, I know my religion does not discredit nor discourages science. We believe that God allows us to have so much at a time, otherwise, whats the point of human existence if we are to have everything now. If we are to have all the knowledge. Cancer cured, diabetes cured, AIDS cured, Autism cured, We would know the exact date the world was made, If there are other worlds with living breathing people etc.

 

[peaches017]

The fact that religion discouraged the thinking of science is why there is a debate.

DNA studies on the human DNA have found that we have basically a totally different DNA sequence than that of the Ape.. It doesn't really mean anything, other than we arn't apes but what it does mean is if we did evolve from Apes.. We started so ALONG time ago. However if you take our DNA and compare it too that of other mammals you will find certain areas that match.. Such as the horse, and pig. Does this mean we evolved from horses and pigs? No.. Does that mean we have a common ancestry probably.

Is any of this fact? No.. It is purely science and guessing.. As everything pretty much is.. We get peices and parts and use logic to peice them togeather..

- Steve

What you describe are homologous and convergent evolution. Homology accounts for the fact that humans and bats and whales have similar appendages in the arms. That is, that whales have a "hand-like" structure in their fins, and the bats wings are really like webbed hands. Weird, huh? Convergent evolutions refers to the way that different species will adapt to survive in the same environment. It would be like two animals living in the same environment who acquire similar traits as a result of having to deal with the same conditions.

Peter