"We are just an upright-walking big-brained super-intelligent ape." -- Louise Leakey. What are the religious implications?
Wikipedia: The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of chimpanzees and their subspecies, and one extant species of humans in a single extant subspecies.
Traditionally, humans were considered neither apes nor great apes, but today they are recognized as having emerged deep in the phylogenetic tree of apes.
Scientific fact: We are one of the Great Ape species. Humans are apes. This fact is supported by thousands of evidences from DNA sequencing and other branches of science. There is no debate about this scientific fact. Only uneducated Christians and Muslim terrorists deny it.
Our species was not magically created by a magical creator. What are the religious implications?
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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