does anyone really know how human beings evolved ?

Question

Some people say that us humans evolved from monkeys and others say that it was best described in the Bible. If that is possible then where did the dinosaurs come into the picture?

Answer 1

Far too huge a subject to get into here, check the link for information.

Just to clear up one common misconception: Man did not evolve from monkeys. Men, the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans), and monkeys all evolved from common ancestors millions of years ago. Men and monkeys diverged more than 10 million years ago, and men and the great apes diverged about 5-8 million years ago.

Answer 2

if we evolved from monkeys, it would stand to reason that we still should be evolving into somthing else, it just cannot just stop with what we were thousands of years ago,
Also according to evolution (theory) there is a link between monkeys and us humans, as yet there has been no solid proof of such a link.

Think of it this way , take a fish - it will always be a fish and nothing else, unless you modify to genes somehow it will always be a fish- yes you have fish who can breath on land but they were designed that way to survive, it cannot evolve into somthing that it was not designed to be.

There is mentioned in the book of genesis verse 1:- 24-And God Said- Let the land produce living creatures according to there kinds:livestock, creatures that move along the ground and wild animals each according to ther kind and it was so.
Everything has a place in this world and an order in which it works, and it hasd done so ok so far, if it was all by evolving, there would be nothing of the same because they are constintally evolving into something else- it would be madness

Answer 3

The people who say we evolved from monkeys are incorrect. Monkeys are those little furry guys who run up and take pennies from you at the county fair.

Nor did we evolve from chimpanzees. The larger primates that people often call monkeys.

Nor did we evolve from gorillas.

But, humans, monkeys, chimps, and gorillas are thought to have evolved from a common ancestor. This animal was an ape which no longer exists today. The history of human evolution is long and incomplete and it will always be incomplete. The reasons for this are plentiful but in part, stems from the fact that we cannot always determine how related two similar beings are.

For example, there is much debate about the relationship of Neanderthals to modern day humans. There is confusion about whether or not modern day humans decended directly from them. Did they exist alongside those who eventually replaced them. Were they a different species, or a different race that other "archaic humans" at the time?

For example. Let's say in hundreds of thousands of years, anthropologists dig up Brad Pitt, Bruce Lee, and Seal. These are people who would have very different skull features. Now consider the fact that anthropologists, 1. didn't have complete skeletons of any of them, 2. couldn't determin if they existed at the same time, 3. couldn't extract DNA from them, and 4. Had no other information about the culture they lived in.

It would be very difficult for them to determine if Brad, Bruce, and Seal were of the same species or simply different races of the same species. Currently we define two subjects to be of the same species if they (assuming they are of the opposite sex) can reproduce and produce fertile offspring..in general.

This is a very lose definition. A donkey and a horse are considered to be different species. They can breed to produce a Mule, but mules are generally unable to reproduce. There have been documented cases of mules giving birth though! The same is true of whale/dolphin mixes called whalfins.

Answer 4

We didn't evolved from monkeys. Monkeys are a close cousin to us. They share around 98% of the same DNA as humans. Humans and Monkeys did evolve from the same distance ansector.

Answer 5

Humans didn't evolve from monkeys, rather we both evolved from some yet unknown common ancestor.
Dinasaurs evolved from reptiles. In a very short recap:
Reptiles evolved from amphibians, around 300 mill. years ago. They later became divided into three groups: turtules and tortoises (which still exsist today in similar form), mammal-like reptiles (from which true mammals like us evolved, but which have become completely extinct as a group) and all the rest (lizards, aligators, snakes ext.). Dinosaurs evolved from the third group. And birds in turn evolved from dinoaurs.

Answer 6

*Nobody* who knows anything says that humans evolved from monkeys. That is a Creationist misstatement of the theory of evolution. Evolution holds that humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor.

There are many paths to truth. The scientific path has led us to the current theory of evolution, whose centerpiece is Darwin's theory of natural selection. The biblical path holds that God created humans separately from other animals.

It is not necessary to choose one *or* the other. It is possible that *both* paths are true in their own sphere ... e.g. that evolution is the story of man's biological origins, and that Genesis is the story of man's spiritual origins (the origin of the soul) ... this is pretty close to the Catholic position, which holds that an understanding of Genesis can be fully compatible with scientific evolution. (See http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp

Answer 7

Nobody knows for sure, in detail, exactly how, but the general consensus is that all life evolved from earlier forms right back to the first microbes.

BTW, this has nothing to do with space or astronomy, it is a biology question.

Answer 8

job 40:15 thru i think 40:24 sure seems to be a dinosaur type creature in the bible

Answer 9

Have human beings developed clearly? No. Genetic evidence alongside with Mitochondrial Eve helps the Biblical statement of creation ~6500 years in the past. at the same time as mankind became divided at Babel the inhabitants dispersed and allotropic variety resulted contained in the races we see in the present day.

Answer 10

That really is too big a question for a little answer on this site. How old are you anyway, shouldn't you have learned much of this already??