| bimmylee said: Uggghh. The "do you believe in evolution" argument often gets messy and convoluted. So here's what I believe: Humans have always been a separate, distinct, intellectually-superior species from all other living things. Humans are not a result of another lesser species and never have been. The human that is alive today is virtually the same as the very first human that ever lived. "But bimmy, don't be an idiot. Don't you believe in any sort of evolution at all?" Of course. However, I believe that whatever aspects of evolution that conflict with the aforementioned position are entirely false. Anything outside of this, however, is secondary, and I am generally open to discussing the possibilities. |
I'll just state my view on this.
I disagree that we are superior to other species at all if I'm honest. If aliens were to come to Earth to study life, they would see that physiologically we're not all that dissimilar to a chimpanzee. We have 4 limbs, we have two eyes, two ears, the same internal organs and (relative to the vastly superior intellectual species studying us) similar functioning brains. On a genetic level you would be surprised how much information we share with a chimpanzee.
Similarly, we would accept that whales are related to the hippopotamus. Whales are as intellectually superior to the hippopotamus as man is to chimpanzees; or it would likely appear as such to an exo biologist form another planet lol.
I think it is more than plausible that at some point we shared a common ancestor. To me humans are just "apes that got lucky".
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