Evolutionists...Do you believe that apples and oranges have a common ancestor?

Question

Wouldn't this be considered "mixing apples and oranges?"

Answer 1

What is an evolutionists?  A biologist or zoologist that believes in the theory of  evolution is just a biologist or zoologist.

Answer 2

Uh, all eukaryotes have common ancestors.  All plants, animals, fungi and amoeba share the same 'root' where eukaryotes branch off their ancestors.

So yes, apples and oranges do share a common ancestor.  What that ancestor is or was is unlikely to ever be known, however.

Answer 3

of course...that is the definition of evolution.  everything on earth evolved into what it is right now....it didnt just "poof" arrive on earth.  

Answer 4

I think everything had a common ancestor. Something happened to create initial life, and that slowly began to evolve into the radically different organisms we see today. Guess you can really compare apples and oranges then! ;)

Answer 5

Of course they do, they are both angiosperms and even more basically they are both plants.  If you go far enough back I'm sure you could find a common ancestor between humans and apples and oranges when comparing life to the first blue-green algae that inhabited this planet.

Answer 6

Even humans and rutabagas have a common ancestor.  The common ancestor between apples and oranges is probably less than a 100 million years.  It would be something like probably 600 million between a human and a rutabaga.  Every single living organism on the planet not only had a common ancestor but it was almost certainly a single cell and that happened many times.  I prefer the term scientist because evolutionist implies that there is even a shadow of a doubt.  There isn't, any more than the Earth isn't flat.