If we evolved from monkeys, and we have gotten so smart,from stone age to computer age, why hasn't?

Question

the other animals on earth evolved, why haven't they learned to build houses, drive car, and have knowledge somewhat similar in growth, to our evolment we surpositly walked on all 4 at one time,so why have'nt the animals evoled?

i'm sorry, this question was for all who don't believe in creation,

Answer 1

That is something I thought about asking as well. Alligators are supposed to be from the dinosaur age and yet have not changed but humans are supposed to have changed from monkeys to humans. And if we came from apes, why are there so many more that have not followed suit and become human? Makes no sense to me. What does make sense is that we were created by an intelligent being that made an ape an ape, a human a human and an alligator an alligator from the first.

Answer 2

Simple. The other animals don't have fingers as we do, nor a large language to speak and read with. The proof of evolution, is the evolvement of animals to many forms. If they all evolved to become humans, that would not be evolution, it would simply be growth. Evolution requires many forms. Monkies in the jungle where there are vines and the types of food that they like. Take away the jungle and they would either evolve or die. In many cases, humans change the environment and the animals cannot evolve to another form fast enough, and they die and become extinct. Fortunately, there was a time when the world was not as crowded and polluted, and some animals had time to evolve into humans. By the way, nobody claims that humans evolved from monkies. Humans and monkies evolved from a common ancestor. You need to study evolution more thoroughly before you make statements on the subject.

Answer 3

what makes you think they haven't. I think all the creatures have gotten to where they are able to live well in the world with what they have. It is important for the ecology that there are different animals occupying different niches(habitats) and going after different resources. Otherwise there would be too much competition and most would not survive.
You could look at it that we humans could be not as "advanced" and well off as other animals seeing that we deplete our resources and may eventually destroy the whole planet. That is not a good survival strategy.
You have no idea how smart our fellow earth inhabitants can be. They do have complex social systems. Amazing communication and cooperation. Some are so self sufficient that they do great on their own- Is that smart or what? They do build remarkable homes. Have you ever tried to build a nest like a bird does with your two dexterous hands? They do it in the air with only their beak.
We are still evolving - it never stops- I have hope that one day we will attain the ability to live in balance with nature too.

Answer 4

No folks, it's not a good question. First, and this is the crux of the matter, the writer and a lot of the answers soo far, have shown they haven't a clue as to what evolution means in the first place. You question has so many erroneous assumptions that it's almost impossible to see it as meaningful.

It isn't really your fault, but this is one more symptom of the disgraceful state of American education.

The shortest answer you deserve is: First learn the subject and THEN ask the questions. Other than that, go to the proper forum, Science, and ask that question in parts. And please don't start with, "Didn't we evolve from monkeys?" Even scientists have a limit on how many times they have to explain the same damned thing.

Actually, from many of the answers I've seen so far, one could conclude that it's too late for a lot our youth to get a good education - because they don't want one. And that is tragic.

Answer 5

They have. Every organism on the planet has evolved, but .. and here's where you're falling into a trap of using a word (evolve) in its casual rather than biological meaning.. evolve doesn't have to indicate that intelligence is the end point. It also doesn't mean that an organism has to build cars, etc., to evolve. It simply means that it changes and better fits its environment over time. Evolution is simply the end result of survival of particular young which have been selected by whatever envirnomental forces exist at the moment. Naturally, that also means that millions of other young don't.

Reaching breeding age and passing on genes that allow a better chance of having those young to also reach breeding age IS the point. Selection then works on the phenotype of those genes (i.e, what the organism itself looks like, acts like, is colored like, etc.).

A racoon; a jellyfish; a robin; a bat; a sequoia - in fact anything alive on the planet today has a history that stretches back as far as that of anything else alive on the planet today -- including us.

As humans, we like the idea of breaking things into recognizable segments, so what we've done is try to find the branching points, if you will, where any particular organism (yeah, including us) began to branch and become what we recognize today.

Right now, we're, perhaps, finding part of that branching point for birds. They are finding many fossils in China, even now, which are dinosaurs with feathers; or birds that look like dinosaurs; or part dino-part bird. Depending on where you wish to draw the dividing line (and that line is a human line, we just say that we'll call one on this side this and one on that side that.)

So, your question is a common one, but I suggest you might enjoy also going to the sites listed below and doing some further reading.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
http://www.talkorigins.org/

Answer 6

We did not evolve from apes.


Both humans and apes evolved from the same ancestor. Other animals have evolved, but humans have evolved the most and have become the most advanced. This is arguably due to their ability to adapt to new areas and use the resources available.

For example, humans have no natural claws or anything to kill prey despite having the teeth of an omnivore. So in order to do this, we have had to adapt and use learning and previous knowledge to work out ways of killing prey e.g. spears, knives etc. Once we worked out this, we could survive anywhere. Since we have no proper natural defences or attacking features, this ability to learn from prior experiences has been the key to our survival and also to our evolution.

you would have had better answers if you'd posted this in the biology section...

Answer 7

There is a theory that said the need for intelligence evolved from population pressure. There were too many of us originally in the forest and thus had to be pushed out into the savanna. In the savanna we had to evolve intelligence to outwit the many predators. Once that is done, we thrive and produce more offsprings. This created more population and thus we have to migrate to other places (Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc.). Then as our population grows even more, we had to come up with new tools and techniques to obtain more food and such, further advancing our technology and knowledge base.

Answer 8

They have. The Idea of evolution is that each species stems from another. We're just the latest and greatest.


It's like asking If my Ipod had evolve from an eight track the why is my toaster not a microwave.

On the bible comment. It actually says alot and people have seemed to dissect it into different defining statements.

1)Time to man and god are not the same "7yrs is like 7000"
2)...made from dust (This is true to evolution as well as this planet was made from dust)
3) Evolution does not contradict biblical scripture, but does tend to contradict the current leaders of the organized religion)

Answer 9

Well if you read about evolution's theory you would know that we didn't evolve from monkeys..monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor and we split apart millions of years ago.
The other species have not yet evolved the brain lobes required for conscience thought and discovery..they may or may not. depending on if their genes can mutate positively to create intellect, or possibly their ancestors did not go the "right" way for human-like intelligence

To all Bible thumpers...you want us all to read that stupid book so why don't you pick up a paper on evolution and actually LEARN something for a change. Otherwise please don't pretend to know anything about science

Answer 10

Check your anthropology books. We did NOT evolve FROM monkeys. Furthermore, it is apes that we have a closer relationship too. Monkeys have tails. Apes don't. Hint. Hint. We share a common trait with apes but did NOT evolve from them. Think of the tree of life and we shared the same branch at one point but broke off into different limbs. The question of evolving from monkeys has been grossly distorted over history. Hope this helps. Time for me to eat a banana.

Answer 11

Exactly.
There has been plenty of time for, say, Chimpanzees to evolve along the same lines people did if evolution is correct.
I don't think we all crawled out of the primordial ooz. I think we were created by a higher being (call it god, or whatever you want) and allowed to grow and change as needed to survive the planet.
People in Africa needed protection from the brutal sun, causing dark skin, while people in snowy climates didn't, but they needed to get bigger and stronger to survive the extreme cold.
It's all intellegent design anyway so what difference does it make.