I am pretty sure that creationists originated from apes or other beings that were not outstanding in logic processes; there is a lot of evidence that also other humans originated from apes or from a common ancestor. The evidence is mostly from fossils that are one the tools for the branch of science named paleoanthropology. These researches and fossil findings never discovered ancient beings vaguely related to humans in a more advanced state; did they escape Earth on a spaceship leaving the 'low-level' humans behind ? It is a scientific fact that similarities between the human genoma and the one of several ape species (including chimpanzee) is above 98 % . Suppose for a very brief moment to embrace the creationists sayings (can't call it a theory, sorry, following Popper's definitions), so we are confronted with a creator entity that enjoys playing games, making puzzles and tricks to the humans; this raises many other questions.

In the 1859 Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's spoke of a common ancestor, "Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." [3] (p 484) Therefore I don't believe that we originated from apes :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_descent

Evolution is an interesting theory but there is no scientifc evidence for it. It assumes that there has been development from the "primeval" in a direction toward a more advanced state. Who is to say that the "primeval" was not a more advanced state and that we have actually devolved to a lesser one? To believe that we are more advanced than apes is a mere human prejudice and has no more scientific proof than the theory of creationism.

i think ''theory'' makes more sense than ''version'', here. hmm. i don't care about religion, i don't know wether some god made humans or if we've just evolved from apes. i feel it's not my place to say one is absolutely true, because how am i supposed to know? how is anyone? we're only human, so i'm not going to ponder the origins of my existence for too long when there's no way i'll ever know the truth in this lifetime. and really, i don't much care haha. wether it's one or the other or whatever, it just doesn't matter. i'm here right now and that's all that's relevant to me :) you?

Agreed with Chris: "a common ancestor" is something quite different from "apes". "Descended from the apes" is simply a figurative expression.