for those that believe in evolution, How come man isn't still evolving?

Question

or how come monkeys aren't still turning into humans?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Evolution is nothing that you could watch happening right in front of you. It takes hundreds and thousands of generations until you could measure a difference.

Indeed minimal changes can be seen already throuout the last let say up to 5000 years comparing mummies found all over the world. Our brains grew bigger, people tend to grow taller.

Evolution is mainly about slight changes in an environment and the flexibility of the genes to adapt to the changes within a certain limit per generation.

You can be sure that mankind is still evolving. We developed tools to take our own evolution into our own hands. By mastering the genes we will accomplish what insects already mastered, Ants and bee queens can "produce" whatever kind of a "citizen" their hive needs.

I am not saying that we should become like that, but maybe gene control is just a normal part within the "big evolution master plan" to speed things up and it had to happen to mankind sooner or later.

Read more books. The Bible is not the answer to everything.

Answer 3

First of all man has changed, evolved, in subtle ways over the last few hundred years. One example would be the average height of men today as compared to 400 or 500 years ago. We are much taller now. If you are talking about major changes you must understand that it has taken man 100,000 years to get to where we are now. It is not a fast process. To answer your second question, you obviously have never read anything about evolution. Moneys never have 'turned into humans'. We share a common ancestor with the great apes. Read some, it will do you wonders.

Answer 4

Perhaps a greater question... Why is NOTHING evolving? Since we've been paying attention, NOTHING has ever evolved into something greater than itself. In the amount of time that evolutionists claim, the odds are inconceivable that NOTHING would evolve in any give time period.

This applies to all species on earth, and on an even larger scale, the cosmos. Has anyone ever noticed that no one has ever seen a star being created? No one has ever looked at the sky and said, "Hey, THAT star wasn't there before!" According to evolutionists, our own sun is a relatively "young" star; in fact, several "star generations" after the beginning of the universe. This implies that stars are still being formed. Yet this has never been witnessed.

Answer 5

Your concept of the way evolution works is incorrect, so your question is misguided.

People are still evolving - average height continues to increase - average height for a caucasian male in the 1500's was about 5'3". People are gradually evolving to lose their wisdom teeth (many are being born that never get them in later life). The big toe and the second toe on people's feet are fusing together because of the majority of humans wearing shoes now, unlike the way it was 2000 years ago.

Answer 6

Well, our common ancestor from 60,000 years ago was a small tribe in the southeast of Africa. All of modern man is descended from that one tribe. DNA tells us that.

Before that we developed from a line of apes, not monkeys - that's a slightly different family tree.

And man is still evolving. In recent centuries, we have grown taller, lost more of our body hair, and we now have a number of vestigial organs that once served a purpose.

But evolution doesn't happen over night. No-one's going to wake up one morning with an extra arm, so don't expect radical changes in your lifetime.

One interesting point -you might argue that modern medicine is actually defeating evolution - since death by disease allowed women to pick the strongest mates, and through natural selection certain traits were enhanced. Now, we preserve the weak - even babies that are too premature to breath on their own - and they go on to be able to have children. We may slowly be stopping the progress of evolution in our species through these interventions.

Interestingly though, other species are continuing to evolve. Some of the birds that Darwin studied for example have adapted to the introduction of competitors for their food source to have different shaped beaks - they allow them to make use of a different food source (seeds) that are not accessible to their original rivals. These changes have been measured over the last century. Evolution is truly remarkable as a process; it is a shame if we have halted that through our own interference in the process.

Answer 7

We are evolving. We are bigger, stronger, healthier and smarter than our ancestors. Monkeys never did become human, we both came from a creature that was neither human nor modern ape. Many animals evolve on a time scale that CAN be witnessed by humans but evolution into another species requires many, many generations.

Answer 8

Humans have changed the environment so that it is no longer a 'survival of the fittest' contest. Because of health care etc, even the 'weak' are surviving and reproducing. For evolution to occur there needs to be circumstances that prevent the weak from reproducing so those traits that make them weak die off.

I suggest you read a book about the 'theory' of evolution (i don't mean the bible), even if you look at it with skeptism, you'll learn a lot and those questions will be answered.

Answer 9

We are evolving every day. Civilization has evolved. Technology has evolved. Religion is evolving. Your body even evolves throughout your life-- your DNA changes as you grow as a result of adapting to the environment. The body can change its stress threshold depending on the demands we put on it. This proves that we adapt to our environment. But it doesnt mean that God hasn't played a part. This is God's plan of creation.

Answer 10

We are constantly evolving with the passing of each generation. we are adapting to changing climates and the technology that has made us dependent. We developed resistence to harmful bacteria and viruses that would have killed us 100 years ago. Although not visible and as drastic as some show it to be, we're still evolving.

Answer 11

How do you know they aren't? Evolution isn't a magic wand that happens in *poof*...evolution takes places over hundred and thousands of years.

Besides, there was just an article on some bird that they've noticed evolutionary changes in recently due to environmental changes.

*poof* Look...evolution. It's magic......