Reflection 4

Early Human Phylogeny, Hominids, and the story of Lucy and African Eve were all very interesting articles. I learned alot about were the firt humans migrated to many thousands of years a go. I also learned about characteristics of early human skeletons. However I do not believe everything that I read.
Due to my personal belief and religious belief I do not believe that humans evovled from apes or chimps. I believe in evoltuion but in a mental sense and progress. I really don't believe in the physical evolution. Some people say that people fear what they dont understand I do not fear science; they have made a wonderful presentation of evolution but it controdicts my religious relief. In my belief God is creater of every living thing. I do not think that I came from a monkey.
My personal opinion is that this whole thing has to do with the fact that we have people in this world that doesn't want to except the fact that human life began in the "Mother land" which is Africa. For this statement to be true this would mean that every living person anywhere on this earth is African. My belief is that people have so much racism that they would rather believe that they come from a monkey or an animal than to believe that their ancestors are " Black"' which would make them "black"; that they are something that they've been taught to hate their entire lives. This would bring us back to the whole subject of paradigm shifts. Man has been taught for so many years that black is bad and that white is the best thing to be and we don't notice it but things hasn't changed too much since slavery. I am not willing to accep the fact that that i came from any animal. God created each animal seperately and he created man seperately. Even science has proven that the monkey is only one cromosone different from man but it's still a difference. Also in the theory of evolution most things that evolve are hardly ever seen again in its begining state so if evolution is to adapt to the environment why is it that monkeys are still living in there original state today hundreds and thousands of years later. I enjoyed looking at the artifacts of the skeleton structure and learning were we came from geographically but I have my beliefs and it is hard to absorb information that i do not agree with.