Less Republicans believe in Evolution today than in 2009

PostmodernProphet said:
really?.....science can demonstrate that apes were created nearly identical to humans but without our mental capacity......remarkably similar DNA.....
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A false assumption on your part. Science can't prove that any life form was "created" by anything other than natural processes. As for the DNA....Humans share 90% of the codon sequences that a blade of grass has. What's your point?
 
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Superfreak said:
What is the name of the common ancestor?
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Eddie?

But seriously it doesn't have a name cause no one knows what that common ancester was. You're talking like about a bajillion years ago and there were no reliable witnesses. However, the phylogenetic evidence, the genetic evidence and the physical/fossil evidence strongly supports such a conclusion.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
I think you're confusing your phylogenetic categories. I think you're confusing Apes with Primates. Both humans and apes belong to the phylogentic order called "Primates" but apes and humans are distinctly different speicies.

Though your main point is correct. Evolutionary theory does predict that we (humans) share a common ancestor with apes.
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Sorry, you are wrong. We are classed as apes which are a subcategory of primates. Also, apes are not a species but a superfamily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominoidea
 
Mott the Hoople said:
A false assumption on your part. Science can't prove that any life form was "created" by anything other than natural processes. As for the DNA....Humans share 90% of the codon sequences that a blade of grass has. What's your point?
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my point is that science can "prove" we were created with equal sufficiency as it can "prove" we evolved from a common ancestor.......anything beyond that is my assumption, or yours......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
you had better take a closer look at that chart, ape......
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Why?

Hominoidea contains two families of living (extant) species:

  • Hylobatidae consists of four genera and sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang. They are commonly referred to as lesser apes.
  • Hominidae consists of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] Alternatively, the hominidae family are collectively described as the great apes.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] There are two extant species in the orangutan genus (Pongo), two species in the gorilla genus, and a single extant species Homo sapiens in the human genus (Homo). Chimpanzees and bonobos are closely related to each other and they represent the two species in the genus Pan.
 
Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
Why?

Hominoidea contains two families of living (extant) species:

  • Hylobatidae consists of four genera and sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang. They are commonly referred to as lesser apes.
  • Hominidae consists of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] Alternatively, the hominidae family are collectively described as the great apes.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP] There are two extant species in the orangutan genus (Pongo), two species in the gorilla genus, and a single extant species Homo sapiens in the human genus (Homo). Chimpanzees and bonobos are closely related to each other and they represent the two species in the genus Pan.
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So according to your link, it was only recently than SOME biologists started lumping humans together under the term 'ape'?
 
Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
Why?
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because the link you provide for your authority contradicts your claim....
not sure if this will show up on the paste, but if you look at the chart, it refers to apes being marked by the bracket......you will note that humans are above the bracket, not within it...
The diagram below shows the currently accepted evolutionary relationships of the Hominoidea,[2] with the group traditionally called "apes" marked by a bracket.
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nope, bracket didn't paste over.....you'll just have to go back to your link and look at the diagram on the right side of the screen......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominoidea
 
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