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To get pedantic, humans were never apes, they share a common ancestor with apes. And you could reconcile with your colleague, "I'm not disputing God created ev
by linkregister 10y ago
To get pedantic, humans were never apes, they share a common ancestor with apes.
And you could reconcile with your colleague, "I'm not disputing God created everything within a week; I'm just saying that all the evidence makes it look like it happened over the course of millions of years. Maybe God had some accelerated process, does your religious text talk about how God went about creation?"
- spqr0a1 10y agoTo get extra pedantic we are apes. Taxonomically, humans are in the great ape family Hominidae. We were, however, never monkeys.
- vacri 10y agoEddie Izzard points out that the French don't distinguish between monkeys and apes... and then goes on to suggest that the French translation for a line in Planet of the Apes must be interesting: "We are not monkeys! We are apes!"
- linkregister 10y agoAh. Thanks for the correction!
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago> humans were never apes, Humans, chimps, and bonobos form a clade; to say that 'humans were never apes' means that you have to make some tough decisions about what 'apes' are and live with the consequences. http://www.whozoo.org/mammals/Primates/primatephylogeny.htm http://www.whozoo.org/mammals/Primates/primatephylogeny.htm
- nylsaar 10y agoGenesis chapter 2 says God formed Man from the dust of the ground. It also says "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them." I find this fascinating that apparently all life has the ground in common. Science says no creator, but after a Big Bang, life evolved from sludge with Darwinism from thereon. Doesn't the two kind of compare?