(April 19, 2013 at 5:58 pm)Chuck Wrote:(April 19, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Joel Wrote: We didn't evolve from apes. Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor.
Incorrect. We did evolve from apes.
The common ancester of modern humans and modern apes was itself an animal that fit all the scientific cladisitic definition of an ape. It doesn't matter that particular type of ape is extinct. It was still an ape. So we evolved quite literally from apes.
Furthermore, a human in fact still fit all the scientific cladistic definition of an ape. So we humans are still apes.
So we evolved from apes, and we still are apes.
Cute but ... Creationists are the ones who use the evolved from apes phrasing to mean modern apes. One has to address the invented misstatements not encourage them.