[SoldierDad]

I have cousins. Lots of them. If we trace our common ancestry we find that there is one source from which we all sprang on either our maternal or paternal sides. So, if humans are evolutionary "cousins" with apes, then there is "one" source from which we "sprang". Thus, the TOE postulates that we are decended from an ape (which means we came from . . .). Parse away.

[Professor Kill]

Sir, this isn't "parsing"--its understanding what a scientific theory actually states. As I stated earlier, I have no desire to try to convince you to believe in a particular scientific theory, but I do think it is material when you mischarecterize what the theory of evolution actually states.

You throw around terms like "monkey" and "ape" with a very large degree of imprecision, which I believe is a large part of the problem in our discussion. Stating that apes and humans share a common ancestor is simply *not* the same thing as stating that humans descended from apes (much less monkeys).