Mrebo said:So, for the non-believers, do you truly 100% accept/believe/swear as fact that your ancestors were ape creatures? Why or why not?
As an atheist, I don't believe anything. I understand how the theory works, though, and I accept it for the same reason.
Now, the thing about it is, IMHO, that it gets oversimplified too much, in everyday conversation. For example, you said "our ancestors were ape creatures"; I would say yes to that, but not quite. I'm sure you wrote it like that for brevity. To elaborate on it, at a certain point in time there was a species of primates, and from that two branches originated: one became what we call now apes, chimps and monkeys, and the other became, after many stages, Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Another thing about evolution is that it's a sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow process. Imagine the vastness of space. Apply that to time. Our civilization is but a minuscule speck in the corner of time's eye. There are trees -still living, mind you- older than many of our ancient civilizations: