Posted by Joey on August 21, 19102 at 01:31:35:
In Reply to: Evolution - an unsubstantiated guess posted by Mary Greene on September 07, 1999 at 14:57:58:
As a secular humanist, I believe in the theory of evolution and understand that the biblical story of creation is nothing but a story. The Bible is both poetic and metaphorical and cannot be taken literally by any rational person. We are not descended from the apes, but we do share a common ancestor. A generalized creature that evolved into two divergent branches that gave rise to the great apes and eventually to modern man.