A lot of people say we evolved from chimpanzees and gorillas.  I beg to differ!  The chimps and gorillas evolved from us!  We are the more primitive species!  Perhaps we evolved from some cousin of the orangutans, but we did not come from chimps or gorillas. 

     This argument comes from the fossil record.  There are no gorillas or chimpanzees in the fossil record prior to comparatively recent times.[1]  Although hominid fossils are common, there has been only one find of chimpanzee fossils, dating to between 284,000 and 545,000 years ago.[2] As Harrison said,

 

The evolutionary history of extant humanoids (i.e. – gorillas, chimps, and humans) is poorly known, with the notable exception of humans, which have a relatively complete fossil record extending back more than 4 million years… the fossil record for African apes is entirely unknown.  The evolution of the orangutan is, by comparison, much better documented.[3]

 

Just going from what the fossils say, the chimps and the gorillas have not been on this planet nearly as long as we have.  Some say that we can't find more fossils of chimps and gorillas because they live in the jungle, and fossils don't preserve well in the jungle.  But does this make sense?  How is it that Pleistocene Orangutan fossils are scattered all across southeast Asia?[4]  Is that not jungle too?  In the Miocene, Europe was covered in tropical forests.  Ape fossils have been recovered from hundreds of locations all across European strata of that time.  In fact, when the European jungles retreated in the late Miocene, so did the apes, for they cannot be found in great numbers in Europe except for where there was jungle.[5]  From the early Eocene to the early Oligocene, 196 fossil primate species are known, and from the late Oligocene to the late Pleistocene, 167 fossil primate species are known.  Fossil primates have been found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.[6]  Thus, the primate fossil record is comparatively well-known, both in numbers and across time frames.  If chimps and gorillas were in Africa for the past 6 or 7 million years, since the time they allegedly diverged from us, then we should see more evidence for it. 

     Despite the fossil gap, the chimps and gorillas are very much related to us.  The chimps share 98.6% of our DNA, or 95.2% if deletions are added to substitutions.[7]  They look like us, they have DNA like us, and they even act like us.  But they are not found in the fossil record before us.  So we did not evolve from them.  If anything, they evolved from us!

     If you took a chimpanzee, and put both a human and a gorilla right in front of his nose, and then asked him "Who's your daddy," the chimp would point at the human, not the gorilla.  Likewise, a gorilla would also point to the human, not the chimp.  A test using the agent antiserum against albumin revealed that both chimps and gorillas are more related to us than to each other.[8]  Despite having much in common, such as hairy bodies, knuckle walking, and much smaller brain sizes than we do, they are more closely related to us than to each other.  A Jukes-Cantor measurement of the distance between genomes sheds some light on the subject.  When comparing the chimp genome to gorilla and human genomes, the chimp is in all tests more closely related to humans than to gorillas.  When comparing the gorilla genome to chimp and human genomes, the non-coding genes, autosomals, pseudogenes, and synonymous genes of the gorilla show a closer genetic relationship to humanity than to the chimp.  For non-synonymous genes, the gorilla shows just a hair more affinity toward the chimp – these being the genes under the pressures of natural selection.[9] 

     Here's why:  non-synonymous genes are subject to the pressures of natural selection, whereas synonymous genes are not.  Gorillas and chimps live in similar jungle environments, and this has caused them to acquire similar characteristics, but the synonymous genes reveal lineages by means of tracing DNA that has been left unaltered by selective pressures.  That's how we know chimps and gorillas are more closely related to us than to each other.  Natural selection has caused chimps and gorillas to look more similar to each other than to us.  However, when their genomes are analyzed, chimps and gorillas both turn out to be more closely related to us than to each other. 

 

The Evolution, Devolution, and Devilization of Humanity

     It appears that some aliens don't really want humans on this planet, so they have attempted to devolve us back into less intelligent animals.  To reverse human evolution, they have inserted ape-like DNA into our gene pool, thus causing gorillas and chimps and other small-brained hominids to evolve from us.

     The predictions of the so-called "molecular clock" tell us that humans and chimps diverged from each other 6 million years ago, and that humans and gorillas diverged 7 million years ago.[10]  Some give it a wider range, from 5 to 8 million years ago.[11]  This information is in tension with the fossil record, which does not show chimp or gorilla fossils until much more recent times.  Be that as it may, let us suppose that the molecular clock is correct, and that the fossils just have not been found. 

     In this scenario, then, if we trace our ancestry back through the fossil record, we should expect to find our ancestors from 6 and 7 million years ago to look like primitive chimps and gorillas.  Yet the fossils of this age that are potentially ancestral to humans reflect more similarity to humanity than to chimps or gorillas.  Sahelanthropus was an ape-like human in precisely this time frame of 6 to 7 million years ago.  It had human characteristics such as a flatter face, smaller canines, and thicker tooth enamel than in other apes, and a human-like attachment of the spinal chord to the brain, which indicates that Sahelanthropus probably walked on two feet, instead of on his knuckles.[12]  As Jobling et al say, "these findings can barely be reconciled with a chimp-human split of 5-7 million years ago."[13]  About this same time there appears Orrorin,[14] walking on two feet, and with thick enamel on its teeth – two distinctly human characteristics not shared by chimps or gorillas.  There is also Ardipithecus, which has chimp-like characters (thin enamel to name one); yet it could stand on two feet more efficiently than a chimp.[15]  From this, we might conclude that humans are devolving into apes, as Jobling et al said,

 

All these early hominid fossils appear to represent chimpanzee-sized, upright-walking species… The most radical possibility is that bipedalism is the primitive trait and knuckle-walking in chimpanzees is derived…[16]

 

One possible explanation is that the molecular evidence is just wrong, and that chimps and gorillas diverged much earlier.  Suwa et al propose this, based on some 10 million year-old gorilla-like teeth, yet unlike modern gorilla teeth, these have thick enamel and other differences.[17] 

 

Our Unfortunate Relatives

     The fossil remains of the hominid Homo floresiensis are only 38,000 to 18,000 years old, yet the forehead is receding, and the brain size is smaller than that of the ape-man Australopithecus – only 380 cubic centimeters, which is surprisingly tiny even for its relative body size.  Australopithecus and Paranthropus had gone extinct 2 million years previously, and even they had larger brains for their body size!  H. floresiensis is in most other respects human, including its teeth, basic skull shape, and ability to walk upright on two feet.[18]  Despite its small brain, it appears to have used tools and lit fires.  For some, its technological achievements indicate it must have been derived from more advanced hominids such as possibly Homo erectus.  Yet H. erectus had a brain more than twice the size and was already extinct by then.  Multiple specimens have been found, which means we are not dealing with a dwarf or abnormal mutant, but rather with a regular population.[19]  Humans just like us were contemporary with H. floresiensis.  Even the Neanderthals were almost extinct.  We might say we are their nearest relative, if it weren't for the fact that the wrist of H. floresiensis is apparently more primitive than both human and Neanderthal wrists.[20]  Some even argue that the root of its divergence from the human line is quite ancient – going back to Homo habilis.[21]  The problem is, H. habilis died out nearly 2 million years ago.  Where are its fossils for the past 2 million years? 

     Could this strange creature be the product of malicious space aliens, who were attempting to thwart human evolution by devolving us into lower apes?  The natives of Indonesia claim that a small hairy clan of people who spoke a different language was still present some 300 years ago.[22]  H. floresiensis was found in Indonesia.  Apparently, the ape-men are coming back. 

          There is also the ape-man Paranthropus, which, although it is not necessarily a step down in terms of brain size, certainly was not a step up either.  It's non-technological, apparently root-digging lifestyle, was an evolutionary dead end.  Wood called it a "bushpig."[23]

Read more about the evidence for intelligent life before humans.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

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