Anyway. Humans did NOT evolve from apes, they evolved from an ape like ancestor, lets try and do a scenario
This is very simplistic btw and the conditions are made up, but the thesis is the same.
There is a creature origanly that is a type of primate(the group humans, apes, gorrilaas etc. are in.) Lets say about a hundred of them exist in a community, now during the history of the earth, lots of land bridges have appeared along the sea, lets say the creatures live in a wood. They are all the same species, adapting subtly to changes in the wood(more smaller insects about, rather than big ones to eat, those that are more agile catch them better, the guys who can't get anough and aren't agile slowly die off, because they all die off if they can't eat then they stay the same species.)
Suddenly a land bridge appears connecting the wood island to somewhere africa like in the equator(interestingly, humans are said to have started off in africa, a big F OFF to all you racists eh?) Some of the primates go across to the equator place, live in the plains, but because of the landbridge they can stay near each other and if the conditions are bad then they have another source to live on.
Over time, due to continental shift lets say(a climate change or the like would do just aswell) The land bridge is cut off and the wood island goes off into the tropics, the island slowly turns into a tropical rainforest(which is another case of evoloution lol, but lets just say if you want, god put the rainforest there, so that the tropical island fitted in with his idea of the tropics)
The creatures that are left in the plains suddenly have to fend for themselves with no reliance of their previous habitat. In the plains there is a lot more different stimulas, but lets say there are a lot of predators that hide in the long grass, now the taller primates that can see over the grass see the predators easier so can escape, as do the primates that stand higher on two legs for the same reason.Over time lets say with this, the creatures evolve into humans, along with other stimuli. They lose their tails due to them being vestigal9no longer needed) and the fact that they drag along the ground slowing them down etc., tails still exist in the human geonome , shown by people being born with small ones themseleves
Back on the tropical island The primates also may have to try and escape from predators, due to the extra cover the rain forest provides, now because the cover is in the shape of bushes and the like, standing higher in the plains would not help , instead the abilty to climb away from predators would, over time, the creatures which are better at climbing(have more dextrous fingers and toes) would be better able to escape from predators, that probally, due to the need to speedily catch prey, would have evolved to stay on all for for speed. Eventually the two species are no longer alike and become gorrilas and humans.
Hope this explained it to you;) humans did not evolve from apes, both apes and humans evolved from ape like ancestors.
PS. Would people not mind being nasty to religous people, if we just use debate for each individual argument they use, instead of continually saying one that they obviously don't accept then maybe they will become more used to debate, instead of both sides spouting religously the same view(irony intended).
PPS: sorry for spelling mistakes, it took enough effort to put paragraphs in!
PPPS: Does anyone else notice that every dan brown novel, its never the guy you least suspect, it's the guy you least least suspect!
PPPPS: Why does every subject with religion in it get hijacked for evoloutionvs religion?
Edited by Pastinator, 28 August 2006 - 10:28 PM.
