"We share a common ancestor with chimps"
You may say whatever you wish about your personal family tree, but unless you have a mouse in your pocket, you should change that "we" to " I".
Believe what you wish, and have a wonderful day.
Hey it was 6 million years ago that we shared a common ancestor with a chimp; I guess you think that nothing that old ever existed in the first place so I guess it is no sweat off your brow.
Heck, I have no idea what my great-grandparents were like, nor why exactly they brought their family to America from Lithuania. I have a strong suspicion that my mother's great-grandparents in Alabama owned slaves, yet I've never had a desire to own slaves myself, nor do I feel particularly guilty because of my great-great-grandparents. (If their ill-gotten wealth at the expense of the people they enslaved had trickled down to my mom, then I'd feel guilty. But when my maternal great-grandparents died in the 1910's, my grandmother was cheated by her brothers out of whatever wealth had remained. The advantages or disadvantages that I started out with came from the choices that my parents made in their lives.)
I do feel ashamed or proud of my ancestors, but why should my judgement of them affect my judgement of myself? I've made my own choices in my own life, thank you very much. And why should I feel either proud or ashamed of the fact that my great-great-[snip 500,000 "greats"]-great grandparents were basically chimpanzees?
Help me out here. Am I wrong to not worry about what my distant ancestors were?
For every human being in existence today, our entire family tree is composed of homo sapiens. However, our species as a whole shares a common ancestor with the other apes.
but unless you have a mouse in your pocket, you should change that "we" to " I".
Sorry, but your wilful denial of the facts in no way changes those facts. You are an ape, just like every other human being, and we all share a common ancestor with chimps.
Like I said, this is not a question of belief. This is a fact.