I just don't know if humans evolved from the great ( or not so great ) apes.
As far as I know there haven't been found any fossil links between extinct apes and modern humans.
I could be wrong. I'm allowed & if wrong someone will tell me & I'll listen.
Perhaps "god" genetically engineered us from the apes long ago?
That could fit a creation event. The Genesis creation story is more a creation poem according to Rev. Rob Bell. Rev. Bell also debunks the notion of hellfire & damnation and the idiocy that humans die and float off to somewhere else.
Does it really matter how humans came to be? Maybe 'god" is an alien lifeform that engineered us all. God
IS an alien life form. No one can deny that.
I have a belief that I call "faith" that a God exists. That God never intended most humans to float off somewhere else or to burn in hell for all eternity.
I have faith in that God.
Since faith is a belief that can not be proven or disproven then most of these arguments are nothing more than mental masterbation to a religious person.
It matters not the technical details of how humans appeared. I like my faith.
I love my God. I love Jesus and His sacrifice for us all.
It's a comforting thing to have a belief system, faith that one can believe, that some day,
perhaps soon enough, this wicked world will be done away with to be replaced by a theocratic government rulled by God, Jesus and perhaps a select few humans that will take spirit form to assist in governing a New Nation a New Earth when heaven and earth will become one.
Nice notion, what?
"As far as I know there haven't been found any fossil links between extinct apes and modern humans."
They have and another aspect here really important is DNA. Because DNA showed us we are as well and it was predicted then found.
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The phases through which chromosomes replicate, divide, shuffle, and recombine are imperfect, as DNA is subject to random mutations. Mutations do not always produce harmful outcomes. In fact, many mutations are thought to be neutral, and some even give rise to beneficial traits. To corroborate Darwin's theory, scientists would need to find a valid explanation for why a chromosome pair is missing in humans that is present in apes.
So the theory predicted it and it was found.
"I could be wrong. I'm allowed & if wrong someone will tell me & I'll listen."
Read this site from the Smithsonian.
Evidence of Evolution
Scientists have discovered a wealth of evidence concerning human evolution, and this evidence comes in many forms. Thousands of
human fossils enable researchers and students to study the changes that occurred in brain and body size, locomotion, diet, and other aspects regarding the way of life of early human species over the past 6 million years. Millions of stone tools, figurines and paintings, footprints, and other traces of
human behavior in the prehistoric record tell about where and how early humans lived and when certain technological innovations were invented. Study of human
genetics show how closely related we are to other primates – in fact, how connected we are with all other organisms – and can indicate the prehistoric migrations of our species,
Homo sapiens, all over the world. Advances in the
dating of fossils and artifacts help determine the age of those remains, which contributes to the big picture of when different milestones in becoming human evolved.
Exciting scientific discoveries continually add to the broader and deeper public knowledge of human evolution. Find out about the latest evidence in our
What’s Hot in Human Originssection.
Behavior
Explore the evidence of early human behavior—from ancient footprints to stone tools and the earliest symbols and art – along with similarities and differences in the behavior of other primate species.
3D Collection
Explore our 3D collection of fossils, artifacts, primates, and other animals.
Human Fossils
From skeletons to teeth, early human fossils have been found of more than 6,000 individuals. Look into our digital 3-D collection and learn about fossil human species.
Genetics
Our genes offer evidence of how closely we are related to one another – and of our species’ connection with all other organisms.
Dating
The layers that contain fossils and archeological clues can be dated by more than a dozen techniques that use the basic principles of physics, chemistry, and Earth sciences. Some techniques can even estimate the age of the ancient teeth and bones directly. Advances in dating have made human evolution very exciting!
Human Evolution by The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
"Does it really matter how humans came to be"
Yes for one it helps all medicine. It save lives, but more then that even.