Did humans evolve from ape or were adam and eve the first people?

were adam and eve the first people or did humans evolve from ape?

Of course there was no Adam and Eve. I think I remember reading that the first human, or at least our ancestor, was a black lady in Africa. And no, she didn't descend from an ape. Probably both we and apes descended from something similar even further back. And we are talking about very long times here.

I am pretty hazy on the specifics but it is all there in the literature - just go and find it; you will be enthralled.

And there is no God - not even a dislexic Dog. Or if there is she isn't making a very good job of it.

If Adam and Eve were two people - who did their first child 'marry' and have children with?

There is no logical problem here. The first child would impregnate whichever of its parents were of the opposite gender. You and I know that this sort of behaviour probably leads to problems, but not logical ones. If Adam and Eve were godlike creatures al that would have happened was the line would have degenerated to the point where we appeared (a few million years ago). Possible but very very unlikely.

There is no God? What?!

No, there is no God. Primitive people believed in God because they wanted an explanation and their scientific ability was not very advanced. Later people believed because they were told to by crooks and charlatons who wanted power. Nowadays many people believe because they are too stupid or lazy to think for themselves.

There are intelligent people who believe in God, but their God is not the benevolent fellow with a white beard who watches over sparrows. She, He or It is merely the substance that fills in the gaps we still can't calculate. We might know what happened a nanosecond after the Big Bang, but with current techniques it is impossible to get back to the instant, and since that is a singularity, by definition we can't know what went on before. Hence, it is said, the necessity for God.

I am of course not happy with this. Look at an analogy. You start walking south; eventually you get to the South Pole - you can't go any further south, but that doesn't mean there is nothing beyond - there is plenty and it obeys all the usual rules. You just need something other than feet to experience it.

They should've gotten some of the "Star Trek" writers to write the book of Genesis. It'd be more beliveable. Whenever I read Genesis, it reminds me of those TV commercials, where the kid explains how they get all that milk into Kraft Singles.

' the kid explains how they get all that milk into Kraft Singles'

This looks like something I'm going to have to look for, here in poor old deprived England

"Did humans evolve from ape or were Adam and Eve the first people?"

Neither. Modern humans are still apes. What we usually refer to as "apes" are actually our cousins. And just like we did not evolve from our family cousins, so we did not evolve from the apes. All our cousins represent the biological state of evolution TODAY as descended from Common Ancestors. In the case of GORILLAS our lines separated 10 million years ago .. in the case of CHIMPS only 4 million years ago .. BTW the "missing links", or close cousins Between us and the other apes, were offshoots destined to be lost in the sands of time to which they were not the FITTEST.
Adam and Eve will always *represent * the First People in the beautiful Bible narrative.

It's not so much a question of belief. There are some people even nowadays who
believe Earth to be flat, but you will rarely find them in industrialized societies.
Evolution is well-understood and a fact. Not all missing links were found, but given
the population densities of man-apes, you will never find all links beause there didn't
exists so many individuals.
I think it strange how many people are willing to believe in the Bible (an OLD book,
based on the knowledge of it's time) and not in the thinks science tells us.
Science is not religion, it just looks at the world and tries to classify.
If you ever used a genetic algorithm to solve complex mathematical problems, you
will NEVER EVER believe in creationism, because you see the blind clockmaker
at work, first-hand.
There is something called REALITY out there, unfortunately people depend on
opinions rather than facts. That's also the reason so many people read Horoscopes.

By the way, the term 'Theory' is used in science to classify thoughts about which
the scientific community is VERY sure, the only level even higher is 'Nature-law'.
In everyday language, 'Theory' is much weaker and people tend to think that
evolution is one of many ideas, while it's really the only thing which seems to work.

I don't just tell you to just believe in evolution. But if nobody better comes up, this is
by far the most likely explanation.

I like Mhung's answer except the last line. We and modern apes evolved from the same primate ancestor, and a lot of creationists don't seem to understand that when you have thousands of generations, the differences between one generation and the next are tiny, so nobody had a significantly more ape-like parents than anyone else.

What's beautiful about the Adam and Eve story? "Don't seek knowledge!" "You sought knowledge, you must be punished!" We became significantly different from the apes precisely by seeking knowledge. And the rest of the creation myth doesn't tally with the facts. There couldn't have been day and night before the sun, or flowering plants before there were insects to pollinate them.

Face it, the bible is a book of myths made up by middle eastern people who did the best with what they knew. There's nothing in it that someone couldn't have made up. The stories of prophesies fulfilled were made up after the prophesies - like drawing a bullseye around where the arrow lands. It's absurd to venerate the bible today.

No, humans did not evolve from apes, face it, they were created by god, not to be all religoes or anything. But there is a ton of proof, if u want i can name some, just pm me.

The trouble with "God did it" as an explanation is not that it can't explain anything. The problem is that it can explain ABSOLUTELY anything, how the universe is, or any other way it might or might not have been. It has no predictive power.

Darwin knew nothing about DNA, but when they started to look into DNA, they could say "Evolution predicts that ape DNA should be more like human DNA than buffalo DNA, but it should be more like buffalo DNA than horseradish DNA." And that's exactly what they found, in spades. In fact they now use the DNA to work out how closely living things are related and how long ago they parted company - and it goes back MUCH more than 6000 years.

Collette0110 asked
"name 1 book that survived thousands of years like the bible did!!"

The Iliad
The Odessey
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonos
Antigone
The Flies
Lysistrata
The Bacchae ...

What about ny favourite, Aenead. Or Ars Amorata. Or Plato's Republic. Even Julius Caesar wrote about his wars, and we were made to translate them at school. There are hundreds. Catullus. Sappho. Suetonius. The more I think the more there are.

And dare I say they are pretty nearly all better written than the Bible (except possibly in parts). And don't forget, what we call the bible only dates from the reign of King James; yesterday in historical terms. Not so old then.

the bible nor science is 100% true... if it's true that we aren't suppose to have sex before marriage, and adam and eve were the first 2 people, who married them?? and who gave them their names? and if they do have names, why adam and eve? maybe their names back than were completely different from adam and eve.. after all, people do tend to make mistakes when translating history
but on the other hand. they MIGHT be the first 2 people on earth, but they didn't have to get married to have sex.
then again, maybe adam and eve were the first 2 people who EVOLVED from apes. lol
so maybe god created evolution (after all, every creation and doings are supposed to be god's) and from evolution adam and eve

but then again.. I MIGHT BE WRONG... because I"m not god nor religious nor pagan or anything. I'm jst me... hahahahaha!!!

PS: by "jst me" I meant that I'm god's creation, whether I came from sand, from wind, water, fire, apes, etc.. I'm still god's creation...

"maybe adam and eve were the first 2 people who EVOLVED from apes."

Gee, I wish evolution were better taught in school... (I wish it was taught at all...)

Evolution works on populations. It works very slowly - over many generations. There were large numbers of proto-apes. Somehow they divided into two populations - maybe they were travelling and disagreed about which way to go. Maybe a river rose, cutting one group off. They stayed separated for many generations. One group had to be clever to survive, the other didn't. The stupid ones in the first group didn't live long enough to have children, the clever ones did. Stupid or clever made less difference to the second group (maybe there was more food with less effort where they were). At the end of many many generations, the first group was markedly cleverer than the second group. At the end of many millennia, they were so different they couldn't breed together, even if they'd wanted to. There was no sharp dividing line and no first couple.

And you didn't come from sand or wind or water or fire.

God created Adam and Eve.

Going back to the original question, my answer:

Both!

It's not impossible. Humans evolved as God intended and the first two who were able to have a relationship with him (I.e were fully human) were the ones we know as Adam and Eve.

*** Collette0110 asked
'name 1 book that survived thousands of years like the bible did!!'

The Iliad
The Odessey
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonos
Antigone
The Flies
Lysistrata
The Bacchae ...

He's good. . . .
Ok name one that has been around over 1000 years that is amoung the top selling books of all times.