Apes and Humans: Different Saliva!

When you think of scientists, you probably don’t imagine them studying spit, but a group of scientists recently studied human saliva and the saliva from chimpanzees, gorillas, and macaques.1 Their findings revealed major differences in saliva between apes and humans.

A common evolutionary belief is that humans slowly evolved from apes, but science and the Bible show that just isn’t true. This might sound gross, but humans have much more water in our saliva. Apes, on the other hand, have a larger concentration of proteins than humans. While analyzing the saliva between apes, chimpanzees, and macaques, the scientists realized they each have their own unique collection of proteins in their spit!

This evidence tells us that apes, chimpanzees, and macaques are all different creatures, and that they are very different from humans. The scientists concluded there was no obvious evolutionary relationship between the saliva of the four test groups. This goes along with the biblical account of creation as seen in Genesis 1:26:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Not only were we not evolved from apes, but God’s Word specifically tells us he created humans in his own image. Humans are unique amongst all living creatures because of this. Genesis tells us when apes, chimpanzees, and macaques were created too, along with all the other beasts of the earth in Genesis 1:24-25:

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.