I know you don’t accept the evo theory, but I hope you still enjoy debating this question.
If it were true that ‘man’ evolved from ‘the apes’, is it then possible that different races evolved from different ‘ancestors’????
Is it possible some men evolved from African apes, and some from Orangutans?
No, the Bible says that man was specially created by God on the sixth day of creation.
But just out of curiousity, what’s your argument exactly? That the different races evolved from different colored apes?
You're not trying to draw conclusions based upong visual evidence are you?
I mean.. if you think about the possibilty, and then... look around. You kind of have to go, Hmnnnnnn??
No, because the chimpanzee and orangutan DNA had already diverged.
We’re not descended from either species. Rather, in the past, humans and chimpanzees and orangutans shared a common ancestor species. We share about 98 percent of our DNA, but that two percent is a whopper.
(This was the San People news we had a few weeks back ~ well known all the way back to Niels Van Der Post's "Sands of the Khalihari" in fact).
At the same time various genes that appear to have popped up in East Asia and Western Europe have made their way back down the line into Africa.
People do get around don't they.
At this time in history all 14 lines of humans are members of the same species. Given enough time and genetic isolation its possible you could end up with 14 different species of modern humans.
The speculation concerning the Orangutangs has been around for most of a century. In fact, the "chimp thesis" wasn't all that well established until it was understood that the Bonobos were NOT the same species as the larger chimps (that tear your face off and eat your brains).
One variation on the human/chimp deal is the idea that modern chimps didn't arise out of the human/chimp milieu all at once but that genetic isolation was followed by cross-breeding, and then isolation and then more cross-breeding for several million years. This "blurred" distinctions, and also allowed for some back breeding with passing orangutangs ~ giving humans both chimp and orang relationships, without there being any strong chimp and orang relationships.
That idea is not new of course.
There are no two groups of humans, no matter how isolated from each other for how ever long, that cannot intermarry and have children. In fact, we have been shown through our DNA that we are all descended from a single woman.
I know you do not mean anything derogatory by your question, but that belief was actually popular in the beginning of the 20th century in the Margret Sanger wing of Eugenics. The belief is able to promote an extraordinary amount of racism by promoting the belief that all humans are not created equal.