I don't believe in evolution. Understanding the theory is crucial, not the belief. I still had to learn it to pass college biology but no prof is going to convince me I'm descended from a chimp.
"I still had to learn it to pass college biology but no prof is going to convince me I'm descended from a chimp."
If that was your understanding of evolution then you should not have passed.
Not a chimp, just a common ancestor.
So put more plainly, no matter how strong the evidence from the real world, you'll reject a conclusion if you find its implications personally distasteful?
How do you rationalize away the evidence of shared endogenous retroviruses, for example?
I bet you'd like "Forbidden Archeology - the Hidden History of the Human Race" by Michael Cremo. There are two versions - one is long with many scholarly footnotes etc, and one is somewhat shortened for lay readers. I have both.
You should try to get it. I found it fascinating, and of course, evolution believers scoff at it. Cremo states that there is a knowledge filter and that archeologists and others in the field who find evidence, for instance, of much older modern appearing humans are black balled, fired, evidence covered up or denied, etc. There is a strong vested interest in the status quo.
He has a website, and a new book "Human Devolution - an Alternative to Darwin's Theory" which evolutionists naturally scoff at even more.
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The point of the article is that your lineage is what it is regardless. ;^)
You are not descended from a chimp. However, you and a chimp are descended from a common ancestor.
You may believe it or not as you like. Doesn't change the fact either way.
Interesting.
Did your Priest / Pastor / Minister convince you that you're descended from dirt?
Maybe you can get your degree from them.
(BTW not 'descended from a chimp.' but rather :'I and chimpanzees share a common ancestor'.
They're your cousins)