Who is mankind?

Do people really believe that mankind evolved from apes?

Do you believe that your ancestors are animals that have never built cities, worn clothes, or debated mathematical theories? Is it easier to believe that we came about through happenstance than to believe God when He tells us that he deliberately designed us on purpose?

No, scientists say that the universe *exploded* into existence.

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They say that it wasn’t meticulously designed, engineered, and built by an intelligent creator.

How does a people forget who they are? From whom they descended?
God said that He created us in his image. Why do we not take God’s word? Why do we deny it? What is it about our self-inflicted insecurities that causes us to back away from the open arms of our Father? As if we were unworthy.

I have a question. What defined the distinction between apes that “evolved into humans” and apes that did not? Do modern apes now discriminate and turn up their noses away from the genetic mutation that caused mankind to excel above them in every way?

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“Primate Family Tree” courtesy of The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Note that scientists haven’t found a “transition” species between primates and humans because it doesn’t exist.

I doubt that apes, or monkeys, or gerbils believe that we are related to them. Mankind has dominion over the animals and the animals know this. They wonder why their master is destroying itself from within rather than taking control and maintaining their God-instilled rule.

God created every living thing. Mankind (human beings, male and female) is the only living thing that God made like Himself.
First God made animals.
Then God made man.
They were two separate, deliberate, creations.

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 1:24-28