If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
2006-08-14 07:32:15 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's actually one of the points I've tried to make. According to the theory of Evolution as most people put it, one species evolves into another as a way of adjusting to the changes in the environment. Then the former species no longer exists. However, they believe that we evolved from apes or monkeys or whatever. If that were true, they'd no longer exist...but they do. We didn't evolve from them. We are the way God created us. Whether you believe in God or not is irrelevant in this example, but if you do it serves as more proof for you by recalling the verse of the Bible that says we humans were all "created in His image". If you don't, then it's still common sense to know that we could not be the evolved product of a species that still exists if species die out once they evolve into another. However, that is not how evolution really works. It exists, but not as people see it. Evolution is what causes tadpoles to grow and devolop into frogs, babies to develop and grow inside their mother and then grow into older children then teenagers then adults, caterpillars to turn into butterflies, seeds into beautiful plants, etc. Everything evolves, but it always stays within the realm of its own species. A butterfly is just an altered caterpillar, but it's still the same species...we just classify it and give it a different name. Tadpoles are still frogs...just baby frogs. And babies are still humans, even at one day gestation.
In short, there are still monkeys because there's no reason for them to have died out. We did not evolve from them. If monkeys or apes or whatever evolved into humans, every one of them would become a human at some point in their lives according to the way evolution really works.
People just think we evolved from them because we slightly resemble them. To them, it can't just be a coincidence or humorous similarity...it has to have some weird underlying meaning. Even Darwin himself dismissed the idea before he died and said he wished he'd never even mentioned it.
Hope this helped.
2006-08-14 08:00:43 · answer #1 · answered by EarthAngel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is neither silly nor offensive, but worth an answer: humans and monkeys both evolved from a common ancestor. Our closest relative is probably the chimpanzee, which shares more than 99% of our genetic information. See reference for many more details.
2006-08-14 07:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one, not even evolutionary scientists say we came from monkeys. Get this through your head people. A million years ago humans were very similar to apes. That is all. If my cat evolved from a bobcat why are there still bobcats. Lots of things still exist. There are many different kinds of dogs, cats, bears, etc. All of these are evolutionary branches of one another and yet a lion and a cheetah still both exist.
And the joke is dyslexic agnostic insomniacs stay up all night wondering if there is a dog.
2006-08-14 07:43:28 · answer #3 · answered by ushabug 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant. How long did it take you to come up with that one?
We had to keep the monkeys to show where we came from. Silly. Now if only someone hadn't let the missing link loose...
2006-08-14 07:40:29 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*laughing* I don't find that offensive - I find it amusing!
Human branched off from the same parent species that produced today's monkeys. In science, living organisms are classified in a tree-like system of branches. You have a set that is "Animals" and within that set you have "Mammals" "Birds" "Reptiles" etc. Within each of those sets there are more division, based on biological distinctions. Human are related to primates in that we share many biological charateristics. But we are all independant.
2006-08-14 07:42:01 · answer #5 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Let's answer this AGAIN!
Humans did not come from monkeys. Humans, apes, chimps, orangs and bonobos came from a common ancestor and we all keep evolving and changing.
2006-08-14 07:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by Marc B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Provide the proof that humans came from monkeys.
A silly and offensive question is just right this dribble.
2006-08-14 07:38:41 · answer #7 · answered by Goingslo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans didn't come from monkeys, you silly and offensive man! ;o)
2006-08-14 07:38:19 · answer #8 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not offensive at all.
The answer is that only some of the monkeys evolved into humans, not every monkey on the planet.
2006-08-14 07:37:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If Americans came from Europe, why does Europe still exist?
2006-08-14 07:42:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋