If we evolved from apes, how did they evolve into Mexican, African, British, etc?

Question

The Bible of course. People say that evolution doesn't go against the bible, but it does. It talks abou how man was made within the 1st chapter of Genisis (the 1st book).

Answer 1

You clearly had a poor science class. Never has the Theory of Evolution stated that man is descendant from APES....

The Theory of Evolution states that Apes, along with Man, is descendant of a previous life form.

Think not of Evolution as a Ladder, but as a branching bush.

Man came from previous Hominids, and so did Apes.

The separation of races came from the environments. You see that, in general, the races close to the equator are more dark skinned. You also see that the races with out as much direct contact to the sun have white skin, which is more susceptible to sunlight, so they recieve more.

It's like how the pupil in your eye grows larger and smaller depending on how much light there is. White skin is comparable to a larger pupil, to get more light. Dark skin is comparabe to a small pupil, to not recieve as much light, because the environment already has a lot of direct sunlight.


As for all the anti-evolution books below, you may read them, but then read these, the articles all proving the books wrong.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_doland/creator.html
http://www.ncseweb.org/icons/
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/1244_darwin_on_trial_a_review_12_7_2000.asp
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/peter_atkins/behe.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_vuletic/denton.html
http://www.kcfs.org/pandas.html

Answer 2

We did not evolve from apes. This is a common misconception about evolution.

The short explanation is both apes and people evolved from a common ancestor. But that common ancestor is not what we now know of as "apes" in the zoo or in the wild.

The second part, of how nations and/or culture evolved, I am not too sure. But I'm guessing it's just migration of early humans around the world (either earlier around the time of Pangea or later with seafaring tribes). Eventually humans learn about self protection through groups and clans. Over time, these groups are institutionalized into nations with formalized governments.

And we've been fighting ever since. :)

Answer 3

Evolution refers to any overall genetic change in a population over time, and evolution is necessarily always occurring, so there would have been evolutionary change as modern humans spread slowly across the world, leading to groups with different colour skin, different features etc. Nevertheless, it's still true that the greatest known genetic distance between any two individual humans on the planet is less than the genetic difference you might find between groups of chimpanzees on opposites sides of a river in Africa. We are really quite genetically homogenous, despite our outward differences.

As for the Bible, well of course evolution contradicts it - Evolution is science, supported by objective facts and logical arguments, whereas the Bible is religious mythology. You wouldn't expect the writers of the Bible to understand what was only described in detail for the first time by Charles Darwin, many hundreds of years later.

Answer 4

To the ignorant answer I just read, read Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells. I doubt you know very much about science to make such a ridiculous claim. Or read Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe. Or even Darwin on Trial by Philip E. Johnson. Evolution defined as adaptations and changes over time in living organisms is a fact and has plenty of evidential support. Evolution defined as every living thing evolved from one common ancestor has no solid proof whatsoever. None from the fossil record, none from embryology, none from biochemistry, not in any field. It's all just speculation.

Evolution is a faith, not a science. The faith is a philosophical topic called materialistic naturalism. It's been around since the ancient Greeks. Darwin simply revived it by giving it a scientific mechanism - natural selection.

Anyone who does any serious reading on the topic of evolution will realize what a dying theory it is. Check any of my resources.

Answer 5

So the bible created Mexicans, Africans and the British?

Answer 6

You keep believing in your Bible cause man knows only what GOD wants him to know then the devil has his pitch to. No one evolved from monkeys if that were the case why are aunt em and uncle sam still in the zoo? The Bible doesn't mention monkeys til it speaks of Noah's Ark, and that was when he was loading the animals up. We are not animals we are humans and evolution is something man would love for us to believe in order to decease the idea of GOD. Man fears what he can not see and even that that he can not explain, but GOD is our creater.

Answer 7

We didn't evolve from apes. There is no fossil evidence to prove that. The whole theory of evolution is false.

Answer 8

I suppose the bible accounts for small differences in man by location. Sure....crack a book sometime smarty pants.

Answer 9

How do we know man wasn't originally an ape-like man?It doesn't say he wasn't in the Bible.It just says God made man in his image.Who is to say God's image is what we look like today?

Answer 10

dude I've never seen a mexican ape...?

There is lots of evidence for evolution and zero for any supernatural creation

Study what you don't believe