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Humans and Primates

Claim: Homo sapiens and other modern primates share a common ancestor.

Premise: Evidence exists that sufficiently demonstrates that humans share a common ancestor with other primates that exist today.

Assume for the sake of argument that evolution has been demonstrated to be accurate and true.

Please cite sources of proposed evidence.

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Of course it's true!

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Assume for the sake of argument that evolution has been demonstrated to be accurate and true.

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Coldfire(1014) Clarified
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The Theory of Evolution does not in itself inherently prove the debate question.

To most people with even a small amount of understanding in the theory of evolution, it may be quite obvious that humans are indeed primates, but to a large community (namely Christian evolutionists) they point out that one does not prove the other and that they are unconvinced that humans share a common ancestor with modern primates.

How would you convince them that humans do?

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Stryker(849) Clarified
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How would you convince them that humans do (share a common ancestor with modern primates)?

Alrighty then, these are the steps I would use to demonstrate humans and modern primates share a common ancestor.

First I would confirm that the person I'm speaking with has no objections to evolutionary theory. I would then confirm that they accept that evolution covers all change in "life" after abiogenesis. After confirming this I would confirm that they understand that all "life" that evolves from a single instance of abiogenesis would necessarily share a common ancestor.

This would leave only a single objection open to the person I am speaking with, "Can you demonstrate that both humans and modern primates evolved from a single instance of abiogenesis?". If asked this I could conclude that the person has accepted evolution by a means other than learning about it, and would suggest they study up a bit. I would also tell them that a nice collection of evidence for common decent can be found on Wikipedia.

Supporting Evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent (en.wikipedia.org)
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