If evolution is true?

Question

Why is it only that primates evolved to this level. It seems pretty odd that no other species was capable of evolving to this level as the humans did.

If other animals attempted to do this as well, do you have any proof?

Answer 1

What do you mean by "to this level"? I'm not trying to disrespectful, but that I don't know what attributes constitute being on our level. However, I will assume that you meant the mental ability of humans.

To put it simply, natural selection allows the fittest organisms to survive. However, being smart doesn't always improve fitness. For humans, it's a huge advantage, so we are smart. Jellyfish on the other hand, survive without even having a brain. It may seem that it would be better for that animal to have a brain, but the opposite is true. A BRAIN REQUIRES A HUGE INVESTMENT OF ENERGY! (I don't mean to be rude (again), but that's the most important idea in my entire answer.) Maintaining a brain requires lots and lots of energy, especially since it can never fully shut down. To get this energy, much more food needs to be eaten. Back to my jellyfish example: the jellyfish can get food without a brain, so why bother developing one if it won't provide any benefits.

Now for the second question. Animals attempt to obtain new traits. All they do is attempt to survive. An example would be humans' everlasting desire to fly. (Admit it, you'd want to have working wings if you could.) However, wanting something doesn't cause it to happen. These changes simply come from random genetic mutations. Animals with bad mutations have a hard time surviving, so they die out. Animals with good mutations survive and give birth to new animals with the good trait. The mental capacity of humans is not beneficial to some animals, so those species will not evolve into superintelligent beings. However, it comes in handy for dolphins and monkeys. (Random fact: chimpanzees and humans have DNA that's 98% the same.) These animals are helped by intelligence, so they are very smart. They are not as smart as adult humans, but they are smart enough to survive.

Thank you for trying to gain a fuller understanding of evolution instead of flat-out criticizing it.

Answer 2

That's when you have to accept that maybe there is a higher power that helped primates evolve- Intelligent Design... I am sorry but there is no way we can just be 'created'- science of some sort has to be involved. And animals have evolved over time- adapting w/ their environments; etc- but maybe they don't need to be like us, or maybe they are smarter and we just don't know it because we are humans and are supposed to be the more intelligent being. Or it could be that their brains don't work the ways our do w/ speech centers; etc and that's why they didn't. You don't have to believe in evolution, but is there any proof that 'God' created us except the book that was written by humans and not God? Who was here at the beginning to see God do it- no one- so how do we know that creationism is true?

Answer 3

Because this living at this level comes at a great price. The human brain uses up massive amounts of energy and needs to spend lots of time asleep. No if a wild animal needed to catch and eat as much as a human everyday (which it couldn't) and have to sleep for 8 hours every night (it would get eaten by something) it just couldn't survive. So perhaps a human brain isn't an advantage. However some how we managed to survive and now our intellect is so great we don't have any predators (so we can sleep for as long as we like) and we grow our own food instead of hunting (so there is always supply). It is only an advantage once you have the intelligence to a certain level in the short term a level of intelligence like a human would be a disadvantage to a creature.

Answer 4

As a Christian, I'm not sure whether evolution is true or not. The Bible doesn't rule it out by saying that God created us. We don't have all the details. God is capable of anything. Perhaps in the middle of some evolutionary stretch he dropped us in the middle. I think there is evidence that evolution happens. Wolves evolved (devolved?) into dogs. They are the same animal down to the DNA with slight variations. 5,000 years ago there were no poodles running around the wilds of ancient America. I have no doubt that God created us, and I tend to believe the Adam and Eve story way more literally than I used to.

Answer 5

There's no "if", evolution is scientific fact. The "theory" is about how evolution happened, not whether it happened. There is also no evidence of any living being "attempting" to macro-evolve. The species is either close enough to a certain threshold or it isn't. Some primates apparently were close enough to that threshold andhad the right environmental pressures and support to make the jump.

Answer 6

First of all, animals do not "attempt" to evolve. All species experience random genetic mutations. Most of these mutations are useless and disappear, while others turn out to be helpful and survive in subsequent generations. This process takes a very long time.

Is evolution true? Saint Thomas Aquinas said, "There is a first and the first is God." Perhaps, billions of years ago, God created the universe just to see what would happen; just to see what would evolve?

Answer 7

Actually, both creation and evolution are true. God created everything. When he created the world, he created it in such conditions that it was favorable to the eventual evolution of human beings. Why he did it this way rather than creating human beings outright probably has something to do with his plans for us to not only progressively evolve physically, but progressively evolve spiritually. Only humans evolved to this level because we're the only ones God wanted to evolve to this level.

You can find out more about these concepts in the Urantia Book.

Answer 8

Another cliche question and the same old answer.
I believe in both G-d AND evolution, nothing wrong with both. Literal translation of every single word is hurtful, in my belief, because regardless on who tells you how the world was created...we will never know. Only G-d knows in his all powerful ways.
G-d created our solar system and only he knows how. I do believe He chose our hominid ancestors to evolve because we were chosen above all others. We are not descended from monkeys or apes....our ancestors were a different species but related to them non the less.
Evolution is a tool that G-d chose because HE is all powerful and all knowing, only He could come up with something like that. Evolution still takes place in the world to this day.

Answer 9

Of course evolution is true...you see it all around. Natural selection, only the strong survive. There is no believing or not believing in evolution. It is a fact. I am a Christian, and believe that God created us and all living things to evolve and adapt to our environment. I do not believe we evolved from primates, but we are related to them by a link in our DNA. Most people when they think of evolution think of it in a religious sense, but you need to look at it from a scientific perspective.

Answer 10

Do you know anything of evolution besides what the Rapture Right tells you (which is, "Evolution is not true. Ask no questions. God made everything.")? Study some...If creation is true, why are there no more visiting angels, no women turning into pillars of salt, why can no one split the Red Sea, why, with all the damn strife in the world today, has God stayed silent, why no more tablets of stone given to us with directions on how to cope with life 2,000 years after His last phone call? Why, why, why?
I believe God seeded this planet, building blocks of life and all, knowing what we would EVOLVE into.