I've noticed that a lot of evolution questions posed here are often answered by creationists with the argument:
"If we evolved from monkeys/apes/primates, then why are there still monkeys/apes/primates? Why didn't they evolve too?"
This kind of response only proves a lack of knowledge of evolution enough to prevent them from creating an inteligent answer.
The first problem with the argument is that they usually use monkeys or apes in the question. No one would be correct in suggesting that we evolved from either of these, evidence for evolution shows that humans and modern day primates (monkeys, apes, etc) descend from a common ancestor - that is a prehistoric primate that's evolution took different directions at some point in history, resulting in primates with tails (monkeys), primates without tails (apes) and the species that eventually evolved into humans.
This brings me too my second point - evolution takes multiple paths. ...
2006-10-05
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