Do you believe that humans evolved from an ape?

[QUOTE="Espada12"]

Not really, but I'm not even sold on evolution itself. Humans took a very strange path on the evolutionary process, where we got smarter but less able to cope with the enviroment we lived it rather than adapted to it like other animals. Has any other animal gone down this path?

shaunk89

Actually being smarter makes us MORE able to cope than other species. Example: "Oh crap, it's cold! What to do? I know, I shall invent fire! Now I haz the warm." Meanwhile, the mammoth become extinct. Take that natural selection. The path of our evolution has allowed us, to some extent, to subvert the normal order of things by making mental rather than physical ability a defining characeristic.

I agree what I find odd is no other animal has gone down this path, that's the only issue I have with evolution.

Sure why not. Makes sense. Pretty much proven.

No. i believe God made us all.

[QUOTE="nimatoad2000"]evolution is a fact.Duckman5

Evolution is a fact but I'm not sold out on the man evolving to what it is now as perfectly true.dramaybaz

How can i vote in the poll when the correct answer is not present? We did not evolve from apes we share a common ancestor.

How can i vote in the poll when the correct answer is not present? We did not evolve from apes we share a common ancestor.

Guybrush_3

No, becoz there's no way a hairy beast can shed all those fur. A beast will always be a beast.

[QUOTE="Guybrush_3"]

How can i vote in the poll when the correct answer is not present? We did not evolve from apes we share a common ancestor.

carrot-cake

these, humans aren't evolved from apes. we have a common ancestor from which we both took different evolutionary paths

No,

We evolved from a common ancestor of modern day apes.

Both us and apes evolved from a common ancestor, not we evolved from apes. There's a big difference.

No, I don't "believe" we did. Based on the evidence in support of the idea, I "know" it is true.

EDIT: The problem of the OP, is that it isn't specific as to what type of "ape," since humans are technically also considered "apes" that share a common ancestry with all the other modern "great ape" species.

Humans are apes. o_o

We're not the same as the apes we see in zoos, of course, but we shared a common ancestor with them at some point in time.

We share a common ancestor with the great apes yes. The ERVs prove it.

Uh no.

I highly doubt it.

And btw, I am not a young earth creationist.

mindstorm

Not really, but I'm not even sold on evolution itself. Humans took a very strange path on the evolutionary process, where we got smarter but less able to cope with the enviroment we lived it rather than adapted to it like other animals. Has any other animal gone down this path?

Espada12

And just to be more clear, we did evolve from apes. We didn't evolve from modern apes but yes, we did infact evolve from a member of the great apes.

I believe humans evolved, but not from an ape.

As said before, from a common ancestor.

[QUOTE="nimatoad2000"]evolution is a fact.Duckman5

I change my earlier response in this thread.

Humans did not evolve from "an ape", because we are not an asexually reproductive species.

Yup; I don't like to argue with proven fact.

I change my earlier response in this thread.

Humans did not evolve from "an ape", because we are not an asexually reproductive species.

uhoh_hotdogs

[QUOTE="Duckman5"]Actually it's a theory. Genetic_Code

it still isn't 100$ concrete.

LeGoofyGoober

[QUOTE="uhoh_hotdogs"]

I change my earlier response in this thread.

Humans did not evolve from "an ape", because we are not an asexually reproductive species.

Anonymous_2

What is obvious to you may not necessarily be obvious to another person. :|

Wording can be a very important thing indeed.