5 bombshells some atheists are not aware of

[Anomalocaris]

1. Darwin never once uses either the word ‘ape’ or ‘apes’ in his work ‘On The Origin of Species’, so he could never have said Humans were descendants of or shared a common ancestor with apes.

Darwin explicitly said in the "origin of species" that he would treat the descent of men separately at a later date. It is small wonder why he may technically not have said explicitly in that book humans descended from ape or anything else.

But his implications from that book were so clear a large number of his perceptive contemporaries took it and ran with it. Indeed only a backward bent creationist could have imagined anything else from that fact Darwin himself didn't say it in print.

As to the separate book, it was published 10 years latr, to endorse what his contemporaries have read into his original "origin of species". That second book was called none other than "The descent of Men" to confound those who would claim Darwin didn't say anything about men descended from apes. In this book he not only argued men descended from a common ancesters, but treated with great prescience many seemingly large gaps between apes and humans could have been bridged by mechanism of evolution by natural selection.