[Bigh4u2]

" Funny how "competing theories" were resolved in the Church."

Yeah. I've read (somewhere) that the church is either in agreement with evolution or at the very least not against it.

I myself believe that evolution is a given, but 'creation' is not explained by it.

Is man decendended from apes? Possibly.

I just don't find the plausibility of it because apes still exist.

Maybe I'm just missing the 'link'.

[Dimensio]

Is man decendended from apes? Possibly.

I just don't find the plausibility of it because apes still exist.

The problem is in two errors of understanding here. The first in the common misconception that "man descended from apes" means that man descended from ape species that exist today. That is not the case. Humans and contemporary ape species descended from a common ancestor ape spcies that does not exist today. The second problem is that you seem to think that once a new species descends from a previous species, the older species must disappear. While this has happened with humans and their ape ancestor spcies, this is not a requirement and it is possible for a "parent" species to remain even after a new species has branched off.

[dread78645]

I myself believe that evolution is a given, but 'creation' is not explained by it.

That's because it doesn't address the question. Electromagnetic theory doesn't explain 'creation', so are you going live in the dark?

Is man decendended from apes? Possibly.

Order Primate, family Hominidae, genus Homo, species Sapien (or H. sapien sapien depending on whose taxonomy you use). Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are also in Hominidae, so they're like uncles and cousins if you will.
Man is a primate, and all the decendants of man will be primates.

I just don't find the plausibility of it because apes still exist.

When you were born did your uncle(s) and cousins go *poof* into nothing-ness?

Maybe I'm just missing the 'link'.

That's a distinct possibility.

[WildHorseCrash]

Is man decendended from apes? Possibly.

I just don't find the plausibility of it because apes still exist.

AMAZING!! You've done it!!! You've shown the flaw in common descent!!! And by this same reasoning, you've shown exactly why it is impossible for people to have living parents, siblings and cousins!!!!! Oh, wait a second...