[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.

[Bigh4u2]

"The second problem is that you seem to think that once a new species descends from a previous species, the older species must disappear."

But doesn't the meaning of 'evolve' mean to 'change from one state to another'?

If something changes from 'one state to another' then how does the 'original' state still exist?

This is the crux of my confusion.