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For evolutionists, if we came from apes when did this stop?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Primates are mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans.

    The Strepsirrhini, or “wet-nosed” primates, which include lemurs and lorises, branched off around 63 million years ago.

    Old World monkeys and apes divided from New World monkeys about 40 million years ago.

    Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago.

    The apes split from Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago.

    Humans and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years ago.

    Of the macaque's nearly 3 billion DNA base pairs, 93.5 per cent are identical to those in the human genome. This is not unexpected for a species whose lineage diverged from our own about 25 million years ago. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged just 6 million years ago, are about 98 per cent identical.

    One puzzling discovery is that several mutations that cause genetic diseases in humans - such as phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which lead to mental retardation - are the normal form in macaques and, presumably, our own ancestors.

    So ask yourself why you are seen as a BAD christian and a screwed thinker by the churches then?!

    The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept evolution and the big bang!!

    Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!!

    Nice that christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at your expense!!

    Careful as you go now - we do not want you falling off the edge of your flat Earth!!

    Source(s): University of California, Santa Cruz. Baylor College of Medicine, Texas
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    So far it hasn't, since humans are still classified as apes - 'homonid' is synonymous with 'great ape', gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans being homonids as well.

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