why are there still monkeys?

Question

cretinists and Xians keep asking why there are still monkeys if humans and monkeys share a common ancestor. I have a question, where are these still monkeys? I've never one

seen one, i mean

Answer 1

My pa and I used to make moonshine in the still round back. Pretty often the monkeys from the local zoo would come a-creepin' in back there and get themselves all drunk as a skunk on that moonshine... We used to call them 'still monkeys'. I always used to try to beat them away with an old copy of 'The Origin of Species' but they kept comin' back. That's why I ask that question...

Answer 2

Actually, they miss the part about the common ancestor... that's the problem. They ask - If we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys? When it was apes, anyway, not monkeys with whom we share a common ancestor, though monkeys are a more distant relative.

This whole argument needs to go away.

Answer 3

I don't quite understand the question.

I don't know if it's what you wanted to know, but I'll answer the why are there still monkeys thing.

Humans and other primates descended from a common ancestor - old world monkeys, are the most distantly related, new world monkeys are more closely related, the great apes are the closest related of all (chimpanzees and bonobos in particular). As such, the question starts from a faulty premise ; we aren't the evolutionary successors to monkeys, and nor are we "more evolved" - they are our contemporaries. Another way to look at it is the other primates are our cousins, of varying degrees of relatedness. The question is analogous to "if you descended from Grandfather Bob, then why is there Cousin Jim?"

EDIT: Hahahaha, I get the joke now. It's a good one!

Answer 4

Because adaptation does not equal evolution.
Adaptation does indeed occur, and is proven, but evolution (the idea that species turn into other species as a result of those adaptations) is NOT proven and has never been seen to occur.
Therefore, humans have adapted, monkeys ahve adapted, and the cumulative effect of these changes is 'evolution' (just changing with time but never into a new species) but not in the sense that either species preceded and PRODUCED or RESULTED in the other.
Thats my view of it. I'm christian btw. :)

Why do we still have lizards? Why hasnt the whole earth become populated with one, single, superior and dominant "superspecie" of animal? Why are there still lowers in the food chain? Wouldnt they all have evolved to be superior to whatever they were up against?
It doesnt make sense....

Answer 5

*cracks knuckles*

Because we evolved from "ape-like" species (cough). Not exactly apes and especially not monkeys. Just take a look at the fossil records, radiometric dating, carbon dating (c14), stratigraphy (strata) dating. We originated from a specific species that resembles an "ape-man" (coughs, clears throat). Most people are audible learners so it's easier to youtube Dr. Phil Gingerich who discovered rodhocetus whale evolution, Dr. Dean Kenyon founder of molecular biology evolution, Dr. Jeffery Tompkins a geneticist on chromosome evolution, Also YouTube Kent Hovind debates. The list goes on Antony Flew, Richard Dawkings ect. Apes have 48 chromosomes and we have 46. Look up what happens when us humans gain two more chromosomes. DNA answers it all people. The evidence is clear and if you can't accept it then you're up to some monkey business (cough).

Answer 6

It's like you and your siblings, you all came from the same ancestors, you are different, but you all still exist. Monkeys and humans share a common ancestry, we each just took different evolutionary paths. Therefore, humans and monkeys exist side by side.

Answer 7

Go to the zoo on a hot summer day, and you'll see a lot of monkeys just sitting in the shade doing nothing. I'd call those still monkeys.

Answer 8

Simply because they choose to become monkey (Joke only) Darwin has not found the missing link yet between monkey and man, but you ask the monkey, especilly the talented one, surely he will miraculously answer. Human stole our business "Monkey business"

Answer 9

there will always be monkeys because humans did not evolve from them although our chromosones are 98-99% the same the the other one or two % is all it takes to make a different species.

Answer 10

Darwin did not say man descended from monkeys. Only his critics, creationists, added that nonsense. The continued existence of the less evolved species is one of the defects in Darwin's theory. THEORY