is it really true that we are related to great apes and that we branched off of them as a result of evolution?

also is this whole thing true:

"It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun."

i believe it is and some people doubt that

asking

I agree. Just finding questions that one person or another can't answer doesn't prove that evolution is wrong. When we DO find answers, they have so far always been consistent with evolution. Over 150 years, that's a lot of evidence in favor of evolution.

Sometimes when someone keeps asking questions that haven't been answered yet or which the particular person talking doesn't know the answers to and insists that the answer is that it was God, people call that kind of reasoning "God is in the gaps." That is, God is supposed to be the answer to whatever a certain person doesn't know. So, for example, if I didn't know how plants can pull water to the tops of tall trees, I might say that since I don't know how that works and I assume no one else does, then the answer is that God moves the water to the top of the tree (instead of evaporation in the leaves and "stickiness" of water molecules inside the plants' "pipes"). In fact, there is an answer, whether the person knows it or not, even if no one knows it yet. But someone will figure it out eventually.

Questions about how things work are different from why questions, like Why are we here? How things work questions can usually be answered eventually. Those are the kinds of questions that science is good at.

Asking

oneguyinohio

Just posting to see if this thread is working correctly. I've read the last post 6 times but it keeps appearing as though a new post has been added?