Are atheists apes???

According to numerous scientists, human speciation (when normal apes can't breed with the human acestor apes) started about 6 millions years ago.

Now, hominization (when apes turn into humans) started about 1.8 million years ago. According to scientists, apes started to be "human" once they started believing in life after death. This means that in order to be called human, we need in life after death.

So this means that atheists are apes???

The teacher brought this up to discussion in class but the class ended before we could start the discussion...so OT, what do you think about this???

EDIT: I think the teacher couldn't express himself well, or if he truly meant what he said, well, lets say he is just ignorant.

I think the teacher tried to say: "Humans differed from apes when they started to bury their friends" No need for the afterlife, just the burial.

Now another questions rises: "Why did this primitive people buried their dead with gifts and stuff like that?"

According to numerous scientists, human speciation (when normal apes can't breed with the human acestor apes) started about 6 millions years ago.

Now, hominization (when apes turn into humans) started about 1.8 million years ago. According to scientists, apes started to be "human" once they started believing in life after death. This means that in order to be called human, we need in life after death.

The teacher brought this up to discussion in class but the class ended before we could start the discussion...so OT, what do you think about this???

fanboy-buster

We're nothing close to an ape... accept the hand.Gaming-Planet

Except for 96% of our genome!

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According to numerous scientists, human speciation (when normal apes can't breed with the human acestor apes) started about 6 millions years ago.

Now, hominization (when apes turn into humans) started about 1.8 million years ago. According to scientists, apes started to be "human" once they started believing in life after death. This means that in order to be called human, we need in life after death.

The teacher brought this up to discussion in class but the class ended before we could start the discussion...so OT, what do you think about this???

xaos

christians do not believe in evolutionelpollomaster

christians do not believe in evolutionelpollomaster

[QUOTE="Gaming-Planet"]We're nothing close to an ape... accept the hand.fanboy-buster

Except for 96% of our genome!

Why is it that every topic having to do with atheists always leaves the "s" out?:|Perrywinkle Rumplebottoms

I've always wondered that, and I asked it here once, and I never got an answer.

If evolution is true, everyone is an ape. Homo sapiens are part of the Great Apes.

If there is a scientist out there who taught people that people are not human until they start believing in an afterlife, that scientist needs to be fired.

[QUOTE="fanboy-buster"]

[QUOTE="Gaming-Planet"]We're nothing close to an ape... accept the hand.Big_player

Except for 96% of our genome!

[QUOTE="elpollomaster"]christians do not believe in evolutionfanboy-buster

He's an heretic pope, he must be exterminated. i think i'm not an ape btw

If there is a scientist out there who taught people that people are not human until they start believing in an afterlife, that scientist needs to be fired.

GabuEx

More or less my opinion about it :P.

Here is a quote from Wiki (I swear I didn't put it): "The contemporary study of hominization is found in archeology and often looks for signs that mark out human habitations from pre-human forms, examples of this being the use of burial gifts etc." SO yeah... I also thought there were different reasons for us to be human other than ritualsfanboy-buster

That means nothing like what you said. All that says is that modern humans created habitation structures distinct from those in which non-humans dwelled in, which relates to the evolution of the human brain. Has nothing to do with whether they believe in an afterlife.

[QUOTE="fanboy-buster"][QUOTE="elpollomaster"]christians do not believe in evolutionelpollomaster

He's an heretic pope, he must be exterminated. i think i'm not an ape btw

[QUOTE="Big_player"][QUOTE="fanboy-buster"]

Except for 96% of our genome!

fanboy-buster

damn, no wonder im soo good in bed Dante2710

austin powers chest?

[QUOTE="fanboy-buster"][QUOTE="Big_player"] A 4% difference in a genome made up of millions or even billions of genetic sequences is still quite substantial, so if your saying that 4% of our Genome codes specifically for believe in the afterlife then your are completely wrong.links136

[QUOTE="Big_player"][QUOTE="fanboy-buster"]

Except for 96% of our genome!

fanboy-buster

[QUOTE="Dante2710"]damn, no wonder im soo good in bed links136

austin powers chest?

[QUOTE="links136"]

[QUOTE="Dante2710"]damn, no wonder im soo good in bed Dante2710

austin powers chest?

did i do good?

christians do not believe in evolutionelpollomaster

Cause they're all fundies right :roll:

[QUOTE="Dante2710"][QUOTE="links136"]

austin powers chest?

clembo1990

did i do good?

[QUOTE="fanboy-buster"][QUOTE="Big_player"] A 4% difference in a genome made up of millions or even billions of genetic sequences is still quite substantial, so if your saying that 4% of our Genome codes specifically for believe in the afterlife then your are completely wrong.Big_player

related to us? no way! they hair is way too stylish.

Okay people not trying to sound like a mod or anything but I am atheists. I am a really huge atheists and it kinda hurts. So please stop really I don't know where I came from and I don't care.SSBFan12

So people that believe in something that is based on proven theories and evidence (science) are a lower life form than people who believe in something that is based on a book and word of mouth?Cloud_Insurance

We're still apes regardless of spiritual beliefs or lack thereof according to evolutionary theory, so I don't get how it can be disparaging to consider humans as apes based on taxonomic connotation.

[QUOTE="Cloud_Insurance"]So people that believe in something that is based on proven theories and evidence (science) are a lower life form than people who believe in something that is based on a book and word of mouth?Blood-Scribe

We're still apes regardless of spiritual beliefs or lack thereof according to evolutionary theory, so I don't get how it can be disparaging to consider humans as apes based on taxonomic connotation.

[QUOTE="Cloud_Insurance"]So people that believe in something that is based on proven theories and evidence (science) are a lower life form than people who believe in something that is based on a book and word of mouth?Blood-Scribe

We're still apes regardless of spiritual beliefs or lack thereof according to evolutionary theory, so I don't get how it can be disparaging to consider humans as apes based on taxonomic connotation.

[QUOTE="Blood-Scribe"]

[QUOTE="Cloud_Insurance"]So people that believe in something that is based on proven theories and evidence (science) are a lower life form than people who believe in something that is based on a book and word of mouth?DigitalExile

We're still apes regardless of spiritual beliefs or lack thereof according to evolutionary theory, so I don't get how it can be disparaging to consider humans as apes based on taxonomic connotation.

Human:

Order: Primates

Superfamily: Hominoidea (APE)

Family: Hominidae

Subfamily: Homininae

Tribe: Hominini

Subtribe: Hominina

Genus: Homo

Species: Homosapiens