Originally posted by 44soulslayer
No thats not the way evolution works.
Unless youre suggesting for some reason that apes would be better suited to survival in some situation than humans.
You also stated something about genetic interference by higher powers. This would be genetic engineering, not evolution.
Either way, I dont think its a realistic idea that apes descended from man.
No, that's not how evolution works either. Apes ARE better suited to survival than man in some situations. But now that we've got organized
societies going with technology and language and such; we're so much more successful, we're driving them to extinction, while our population grows
exponentially.
Anyway, the order of endogenous retroviruses show that we share a recent common ancestor with chimps and bonobos, and have progressively less recent
common ancestry with all other apes and monkeys. They are not descended from us; if they were, they'd share the same endogenous retroviruses that we
do, and could only add different ones acquired afterward.
The timeframe for the acquisition of endogenous retroviruses into the genome is far too long to have occurred only after civilization occurred.
Originally posted by cutbothways
Originally posted by dave420
reply to post by cutbothways
Humans are apes.
Then Apes are Humans, by your logic.
Thanks for making my point.
What the heck? Nobody is that dense. That's like saying since apples are delicious, delicious is apples. Categories are rarely the same as their
subcategories; in fact, this is never true except in the trivial case.
Humans are apes because we fit every taxonomic criteria for being an ape. Ergo, we are apes by the definition of apes. The only way we'd not be apes
is for someone to amend the definition of apes to include "Except humans" at the end.