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View Poll Results: Do you believe one of your ancestors was non-human?
Yes 3 37.50%
No, I believe all of my ancestors were humans 5 62.50%
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Old 03-15-2015, 02:49 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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I'm Jewish, "religiously committed", and have no issue subscribing to the theory of evolution.
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Old 03-15-2015, 03:01 PM
 
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I'm Jewish, "religiously committed", and have no issue subscribing to the theory of evolution.
It's a choice. The world won't end tomorrow if you think you descended from a fish or an ape.
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Old 03-15-2015, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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It's a choice. The world won't end tomorrow if you think you descended from a fish or an ape.
That's nice.
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Old 03-15-2015, 03:40 PM
 
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That's nice.
Oh, you're back also! It's so good to see you!
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Old 03-15-2015, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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Oh, you're back also! It's so good to see you!
Thank you!

As a beloved friend used to say, it's good to be seen.
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Old 03-15-2015, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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It would be so sad if we were descended from nothing better than a monkey. Seems like self hatred to me to say Jews evolved from apes.
The origin of our souls is a religious question. Where we come from scientifically is not a matter of what we personally think is right and just. Biology makes a lot of sense with the fish --> ape --> human evolutionary theory but the "God did it, end of story" theory doesn't tell us anything useful or make meaningful predictions. Remember, evolutionary theory isn't some holy scripture. TFF if you can come up with a better theory that explains in detail the origins of individual cells and chemical processes in living things, then scientists will be happy to switch to your theory.
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Old 03-16-2015, 04:13 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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I do wonder, however, how my fish ancestors would have tasted fried. Would they have been as tasty as grouper or as bad as a carp? I would like to believe that I descended from something that tasted good.
Genetically we are 85% related. Taste wise depends on the other 15%.
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Old 03-16-2015, 04:17 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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Do you believe one of your ancestors was non-human?
Genetically we are related to chimpanzees by 98%. This is not theory. This is fact and this is truth.
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Old 03-16-2015, 06:21 AM
 
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The origin of our souls is a religious question. Where we come from scientifically is not a matter of what we personally think is right and just. Biology makes a lot of sense with the fish --> ape --> human evolutionary theory but the "God did it, end of story" theory doesn't tell us anything useful or make meaningful predictions. Remember, evolutionary theory isn't some holy scripture. TFF if you can come up with a better theory that explains in detail the origins of individual cells and chemical processes in living things, then scientists will be happy to switch to your theory.
I'm not particularly interested in converting any scientifically minded folks into creationists. I think G-d created Adam haRishon from the dust of the earth, Chava from Adam, then they had babies.

The idea that a single cell became a fish which became an ape which became a person, and all that happening in 5,775 years seems very far-fetched to me.
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Old 03-16-2015, 07:51 AM
 
Location: Lake Worth, FL
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The idea that a single cell became a fish which became an ape which became a person, and all that happening in 5,775 years seems very far-fetched to me.
Well, that bears in mind that you think the world is only 5,775 years old.

I am of the same mind as JB. Religious and believe in evolutionary theory.
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