Reflection 4

From reading the articles I learned in the article Hominids that some of the hominids were around the same amount of years of each other in terms of evolving. Some were from within 300,000 to 700,000 years old. With some species there wasn’t much of a large change but in others there were differences such as cranial forms or different shapes in the mandible. I have also learned that during the evolution stage there wasn’t just one version that was formed. There were many “trial versions” during that process. I also learned that the reason some of the hominids began walking upright may have been caused due to the fact that the woods were diminishing. My beliefs aren’t really affected because I hold no strong religious values and I believe in reason. If there is evidence that we may have evolved from apes then I’m not going to turn a blind eye to those facts and deny all reasoning. I believe that we could have evolved from apes for the simple fact that there is so much likeness between apes and man there is nothing to contradict that. If there was, perhaps, a mutation in an ape which made it able for it to walk upright then we would have a basic example of what we looked like during our evolving process. If an ape stood erect, it would be the basic structure of a skeleton of a human being’s. There are only a few differences between man and ape and the articles point out those minor distinctions. In the religious point of view there are so many theories and beliefs of how we came to be but not much evidence to fall on, we only have the words passed down from one generation to another to produce. With the scientific theory of man evolving from apes there is given proof to justify those claims. Science can explain just about every reason to show that we came from apes. Our pelvic bones are somewhat similar, our hands and feet are the most alike, etc. If there is evidence to support a claim then I will most likely believe that claim. I do believe that we evolved from apes and that we all originated from Africa; there is so much evidence to support the fact that we did its hard to reject it.