I don’t know about every Muslims, but I am talking about this, to you.
I see two problems with your above statement:
- You don’t understand the biological definition and taxonomic definition of the word “ape”.
- And humans don’t come from apes, humans are apes...which is another thing you don’t understand about biology.
You would understand point 2, if you can understand point 1.
The word “ape” isn’t definition of “species” classification.
“Apes” aren’t a species. The more scientific term for “apes” is
Hominoidae (so singular word is
hominoid “ape”), which is the name of “family” or more precisely “superfamily”.
So the superfamily Hominoidae is divided into two families:
- The family Hylobatidae - meaning the “lesser apes” - which is more commonly referred to the family as the gibbons.
- The family Hominidae - meaning the “greater apes” - which there are numbers of genera and species, but in everyday words, we know them as gorillas, baboons, chimpanzees and humans.
The words “greater” and “lesser” don’t mean one group of apes being superior over the other; no, they just mean their general size, as in larger and smaller.
So gorillas, chimpanzees and humans are all “apes”, they all belong to the family Hominidae (greater apes) and the superfamily Hominoidae (apes).
You are using the word “apes” as if they were species of some sort. They are not.
“Apes” aren’t species; “apes” are colloquial term for Hominoidae (superfamily).
Humans didn’t come from apes, humans are apes.
Humans are not really taxonomic classification. The technical term for humans is Homo.
Homo (humans”) isn’t a species; Homo is a genus.
All species in the Homo genus, include the following, eg Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo sapiens, etc. They are all “humans”.
But just as all of the above human species are all humans, they (humans) are are all greater apes, they are all apes and they are all primates.
Humans are also all mammals (class Mammalia), tetrapods (superclass Tetrapoda), vertebrates (subphylum Vertebra) and animals (Animalia).
Not everyone are biologists, I am not a biologist, but over the years, I am beginning to learn more and more about biology subject, which include Evolution.
Anyway, you are using the non-technical term ape, and you are thinking apes as in species when apes are not species.
Biologically, humans, chimpanzees and gorillas are all apes, we have some common physical traits that we shared.
You’ve probably heard that humans are more closely related to the chimpanzees, and that because of DNA testings.
Some of the shared physical traits among humans and chimpanzees are the following.
Humans and chimpanzees have degree of being bipedal, which is the abilities to walk with two hind limbs (legs). But because chimpanzees spend more times climbing trees than humans, they have longer arms, while we spend more time walking on ground, therefore we have longer legs. But is not just limbs, but due to ones spend more time walking while the others on trees, the locomotive of shoulders and pelvis have notable differences that provide efficiency depending on if they spend more times on trees or on the ground.
Both (chimpanzees & humans) have five digits on each hand and on each feet. Both have opposable thumbs, except that a chimpanzee’s big toes are opposable, where as a human’s big toes aren’t opposable. The opposable toes give chimpanzees better abilities than humans to climb trees, more effortlessly and efficiently than humans.
Although there are some shared traits, there are also some differences.
But just because humans and chimpanzees have more similarities in our DNA than with other apes, it doesn’t mean humans evolved from chimpanzees. Both chimpanzees and humans have extinct common ancestors, probably the Sahelanthropus tchadensis that existed around 7 million years ago; humans and chimpanzees probably come from this species of the Sahelanthropus.
But as I said, I am not a biologist, nor am I a zoologists, so if you want to know more, then you should ask someone else, who have more knowledge than what I possessed.