Comments on: If We Evolved From Monkeys…

By: Kerwin Brown

Kerwin Brown — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:39:02 +0000

Actually the genes of a chimp are quite different from those of a human being as they have quite a few less and some of the ones they have humans do not. I am still looking for an observation of a gene that actually changes function for example from controlling eye color to controlling the thickness of ones nails. There had to be a lot of such changes between chimpanzees and humans.

By the way when speciation occurs it does not necessary mean the old species dies off.

By: RL

RL — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:37:32 +0000

Actually, the more scientists study chimpanzees, the more they are found to behave like us. That eat meat, they hunt, they kill other chimps from rival troops who enter their territory. There have also been reports of mother-daughter pair of homicidal/cannibal chimps from Goodall. I sometimes wonder if their behavior is like ours because their DNA is like ours. Just wondering….

By: Andrew Derksen

Andrew Derksen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:24:11 +0000

Close, Mr. Skinner: our nearest extant relative within subfamily Homininae with whom we share a common ancestor is the genus /Pan/. A semantic distinction, but an important one.

By: Samuel Skinner

Samuel Skinner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:53:43 +0000

No- we evolved from primates- specifically our closest ancestor is the Chimpanzee.

Monkeys are another branch.

As for teaching evolution makes people act like animals… the people who actually understand it tend to be the smartest AND the least likely to commit crimes. I’m talking about the people who if you ask them if they “believe in evolution” start talking about theories in science, weight of evidence, etc.

Most Americans are creationists. Our crime rate is so high because of the war on drugs- see how quickly we hit politics? Stupid theists legislating “morality”. Sorry- pet peeve of mine.

By: Felix Rocha Martinez

Felix Rocha Martinez — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:47:56 +0000

I believe in evolution. I do not believe that we descend from monkeys. Please see my Website www.cicatrices.com.mx so that you can reed my reasons to believe as I do. You may communicate with me at frocham@yahoo.com

By: R. D. McConnell

R. D. McConnell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:41:59 +0000

Don Snow says …” teaching people they are animals does cause people to behave like animals: killings, thefts, rapes and conquests. ”

Those aren’t characteristics of any animals I know about: only humans perform such acts. So describing us as evolved from animals / apes seems an insult to them, not us.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:03:29 +0000

There is far FAR less evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, to suggest changes in crime rates have anything to do with the teaching of Evolution.

By: Batch

Batch — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:51:47 +0000

In closing, if you tell a Wahabbi or an Al Quedah that he’s an animal, he’ll either chop your head off or blow your brains out. If I’m going to get killed for disagreeing with those people, it’ll be standing for Christ, not insulting them.

I am glad that your faith in a heaven similar to that of the Islamists provides you with comfort in the moment they decide to kill you.

Me, being a smart tool using monkey. I’ll and defend myself with practiced skills and well chosen tools.

I wonder when you meet you god will he not ask why you didn’t use the intellect he gave you to solve your problems or save yourself.

By: JEAN

JEAN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:30:43 +0000

# appropriate oops

By: JEAN

JEAN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:29:18 +0000

GRRRRRR….We did NOT evolve FROM monkeys. That headline just made me see red… and yes I saw the word “if”. and yes we ARE part of the primate lines. But most people seeing that headline are going to react like I did. Perhaps naming the precurser or mentioning Linnaeus and chart would have been more appriate.

By: Don Snow

Don Snow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:19:38 +0000

Evolution, imo, is circumstanial evidence. A pile of written circumstantial evidence as fact three stories tall, remains tests on circumstanial evidence, reports of circumstantial information and hypothosis from circumstantial evidence/information.

The theory of human evoluton is information. Some of the information has granted us great achievments in biology and molecular biology.

However, imo, teaching that people are animals haw wrought more harm than good. In my mind, only an unresponsible person would refuse to link growing animalistic behaviour in different societies by people to the teaching that people are animals.

I think the facts support that teaching people they are animals does cause people to behave like animals: killings, thefts, rapes and conquests. We had those before Darwin. We have them now. Except now, we have more people.

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