Sacramento Homeless blog

This common image that suggests that man directly evolved from the monkeys and apes that are exactly like those that exist today is misinformative.   Recently, a friend of mine from the mission tried to press a point that I couldn’t understand. He said that he just didn’t see how we evolved from monkeys. He felt that the very idea was absurd. We are God’s complex creatures, uniquely made in His image , he said. The fact of our being here, on earth, is proof of God and proof of Creationism. As we discussed the issue, I came to understand how he understood the late steps in the evolution of man: that homo sapien had emerged from what were, essentially, modern monkeys, becoming man as we know us, today. Thus, in how he envisioned things, monkeys were static, and, somehow, we are to believe that humans emerged out of that. A vast silliness , he thought. Well, that’s not how our evolution is understood to have happened. Here’s the matter, pithily explained, quoting from t...