I purposefully stay out of this thread most of the time but I have a question impacted by religious belief and wonder where you all stand and why. Do you truly believe humans evolved from apelike creatures?
I was at the National Museum of Natural History for the first time the other day and they have an exhibit preaching the gospel of human evolution. I've always been fairly comfortable with the notion that my forebearers were monkey men (and secretly convinced my 'real parents' actually were monkeys), but on viewing the exhibit I realized I'm not truly convinced deep down - not because of lacking evidence in the exhibit but because I was confronted with such a blatantly uncontroversial display of it as fact. I realized that I'm fine with the theory but not truly convinced.
I know plenty of people have the same issue in their religious belief, though they don't get to the point of facing it.
So, for the non-believers, do you truly 100% accept/believe/swear as fact that your ancestors were ape creatures? Why or why not?
And for the believers? What do you believe and why? For the believers who believe in evolution, how do you square that with your faith?