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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by linkregister on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:48PM (#12553738)
To get pedantic, humans were never apes, they share a common ancestor with apes.

And you could reconcile with your colleague, "I'm not disputing God created everything within a week; I'm just saying that all the evidence makes it look like it happened over the course of millions of years. Maybe God had some accelerated process, does your religious text talk about how God went about creation?"

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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by spqr0a1 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:26PM (#12553889)
To get extra pedantic we are apes. Taxonomically, humans are in the great ape family Hominidae.

We were, however, never monkeys.

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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by vacri on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:59AM (#12555002)
Eddie Izzard points out that the French don't distinguish between monkeys and apes... and then goes on to suggest that the French translation for a line in Planet of the Apes must be interesting: "We are not monkeys! We are apes!"
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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by linkregister on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:31PM (#12558532)
Ah. Thanks for the correction!
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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by nylsaar on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:28AM (#12554865)
Genesis chapter 2 says God formed Man from the dust of the ground. It also says "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them."

I find this fascinating that apparently all life has the ground in common. Science says no creator, but after a Big Bang, life evolved from sludge with Darwinism from thereon.

Doesn't the two kind of compare?

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Re:How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Af... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:31PM (#12553906)
> humans were never apes,

Humans, chimps, and bonobos form a clade; to say that 'humans were never apes' means that you have to make some tough decisions about what 'apes' are and live with the consequences.

http://www.whozoo.org/mammals/Primates/primatephylogeny.htm

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