Here’s a neat little thing that our scientists have graced us with… EVOLUTION.
(Truth: THEORY does not equal FACT! This topic is to the theory of evolution. Leave, right now, if you take offence. I don’t want to hear any “God created us!” or “Evolution spits on my belief!” If you’re going to post a reply, then stay on the damn subject!)
**I am not a Science/Biology major, nor do I major in English. That means I don’t care if I have a couple spelling errors and/or improper word definition.
**I like to self study, to learn new things and refresh my brain with some old. Be prepared to show me PROOF if you know facts that I don’t

First, let me get this out of the way. I believe in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, but what I most admire him for was the way he gathered information firsthand instead of looking ONLY at others’ works to base ideas off of (basically what our scientists do today). Most importantly, he took criticism like a man! If he had given in to the hateful words around him, then who knows when we would have discovered something as simple as natural selection!

Darwin discussed his ideas of evolution with Huxley, whose theory led to the reason I created this entry. Huxley’s Theory:  the hypothesis that we descended from apes.

The theory to our relation is based around the FACTS that apes are closest to us in chromosomes than any other known animal. The evolutionary diagram based on ‘missing links’ only feeds on the theory that we evolved directly from apes, and it shows our evolution as if it happened exactly like that, there’s absolutely no other way it could have happen. The end.

So here's my thought. Why do we have to come directly from apes? WHAT IF both humans and apes evolved from something else and the reason why we evolved so differently from each other is because of something in nature that seperated us?

Now I’m going to tell you why I’ve written this entry. One day, Moni158 decided to innocently write an evolution journal. She did this because there are a lot of people out there making the mistake that we evolved from chimpanzees. With the proven facts, if we had evolved from any known species then I agree that it would be the apes. Just because people think chimps are cuter doesn’t make their chromosomes match ours more than apes… dumbasses.

Now from this entry I wrote:
“I do believe in evolution…” “Is it hard to believe that we evolved from something else…, …what apes evolved from too?...”
I admit that I wrote this on a whim and I didn’t go into exact detail on my theory, but I got people commenting that ‘WE EVOLVED FROM APES’ like it was a fact! What the fuck ever happened to theory? They all sound like brainwashed parrots! (And yes, I know they weren’t talking about us evolving from modern day apes, but us both having the same ape ancestor.)

One person thought I denied certain evidence so far as to say this:
“Another way around? As in, we evolved from cats, or something?” That person wasn’t as bad as the other one, but I had to explain that I wasn’t that ignorant of the facts. I do realize that I don’t tell people all of what I’m thinking either, which makes others confused about the simple ideas that pop into my head. So I’m going to try to explain in a little more detail as to what my theory is.

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Hellsamess’ Theory of Evolution: Now wordy for the general public!
(WARNING: Take my use of the things used in this Theory of Evolution with a grain of salt. They’re just examples and should not be used as fact)
**General’s Warning: May cause increased stupidity, aneurism, diarrhea, epilepsy, jungle rot, brain tumors, heart attacks,  skin cancer, and possible (but not limited to) death**

Let’s go back to the early stages of evolution. Way back when there was the primordial soup. Everyone likes soup… right? You damn well better, because I don’t want to hear any arguments about the use of good, healthy ooze. Now let’s picture something growing out of this ooze. Let’s say some fungus, mold, and algae. (There are no humans or apes at this stage)

The fungus evolves into different variations of fungi, which in turn create many new creatures. To make this simple, let’s pretend that all the rest of the creatures in the world -aside from apes and humans- evolved from mold and algae. (This is to make the relationship more explainable later.)

We’re working with mushrooms, people. Now, for the sake of speeding things up, picture those two little shrooms getting a spontaneous burst of evolution and branching off, creating two different homosapiens. These homosapiens did not mate with each other, and their only connection is through the fungi.

Think of them on the same plane as you would siblings, very different in appearance, yet having the same appendages. On one hand there’s an animal that’s covered with copious hair. On the other side there’s a different creature that somewhat resembles the same thing, but bare-skinned. Because they’d been separated by some great force they evolved differently, the one with hair covering its body developed its arms and turned into an ape while the nasty little nude creature began standing upright because it’s an exhibitionist that likes to show off. Along the lines there could have been some mutations in the apes -creating the monkeys and chimpanzees- but the apes that weren’t changed had only evolved, becoming the apes of today. They’re going to have the closest chromosome structure to the humans, who’ve only evolved and hadn’t split.

People, this is made up, but Huxley’s Theory is the same! Made up, a likely idea that cannot be proven because that point in evolution has been done and over with for centuries! We cannot turn back time to watch it work, so I highly doubt if we’ll ever find out the truth.
This THEORY of mine just states the case that we might not have evolved directly from apes, but had the same relative (in the explanation, fungi) that we branched off from.

You can work the little evolutionary chart into either one. Huxley’s Theory being the case that we evolved directly from an ape-like creature, which some of those fossils could just mean careless mutations, and the missing link only ‘may have been’ found (it links humans to lemurs, btw). In my theory, the fossils that have been found could have been attempts at possible groups of apes trying to become more human at different times, or even some groups of human-like creatures trying to become more ape-like; though, they both died out, of course.  There are, of course, failed mutations during all of these phases, because that's the way nature works.

What I’m getting at is that there is so much more out there than what you are being spoon-fed! Take theories into consideration! Hear them with an open, educated mind, but don’t be blinded by them!!

Do I disagree with Huxley? Can’t say I do, can’t say I don’t.
Do I believe in my own theory? I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but I wouldn’t put it down for the count either.
Could there be another theory out there besides those two? There's a very high possibility! Just be sure that your own idea doesn't ignore any FACTS!