Are there any ancient religions that believe that Human beings descended from Apes?

Question

I know scientist are the ones who have pushed this theory throughout the last few centuries, but do any ancient religions or ancient people believe that human beings decended from Apes?

Answer 1

No scientist has ever said that human beings descended from apes...not ever. Science has shown that apes and human beings had a *common ancestor*--this is totally different.  It's unfortunate that this incorrect interpretation of evolution has proliferated.

Answer 2

The great apes were known to few people until the 19th century because they lved in remote, sparsely populated places.  Most of the religions of the ancient world had nothing to say about apes either way.  Interestingly, some African tribal religions relate common origins for people and animals, including primates.  But evolution was unknown until Darwin.

Answer 3

No , none . The only ones that believe humans descended from apes are :

a) monkeys

b) orangutans

c) evolutionists

d) cockroaches

Answer 4

Ummm...  biologically, humans ARE apes.  The "question" you are looking for is regarding humans evolving from an earlier form of ape or whether humans were "created" apes.

Answer 5

Most native people consider apes as types of men.  For example, the orangutan means man of the forest.  There are no living apes that humans evovled from and Native populations certainly had no knowledge of the extinct ones.  Even modern science has only scattered bits of evidence.  The evidence does point clearly toward a bipedal ape in our ancestry.  Science and religion is the search for truth.  Science relies on evidence whereas it seems to me, religion relies more on ancient stories mostly from unknown origin.

Answer 6

In the ancient Hindu text called the Ramayana, Rama engineered the building of an 18-mile long footpath connecting mainland India to the Island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

His workforce was believed to be sub-human "monkey-men" who were fed bananas and such, for carrying the stones which served as the bridge...