If we came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?

Question

Ok, so I'm making a point rather than asking a question, but it would be interesting to know what the scholars think.

A lot of funny answers. Some of them seemed annoyed. A monkey is a monkey as far as I'm concerned. And I did take evolution. I was a Science Major. Specializing in Zoology. I enjoy thought provoking answers.

ok, I'm adding a little more detail. I am 100% a believer in creation and Christ. I thought that was obvious in the point I was making. It is interesting to see how many people are angry with the question and how many people think I'm stupid. I've read the books and took the classes. I am challenging others to stop being on the fence and start believing in something. God would rather have you cold then luke warm.

Answer 1

...are you aware that in darwin's day they thought they would find thousands of links of evolution.. (an example would be giraffes with longer and longer necks) - but since then they've only found a disputed handful, and how the horse kept going back and forth as to size and number of toes. Also they've found many living fossils". These are life forms they thought were extinct, but we've found them since, alive and well in the world.. but they are the same today, as their fossils. Actually, the fossil record is from sediment layers, and the explosion of life and fossils is in the Cambrian Layer, and the Pre-cambrian Layer is virtually empty. As a matter of fact, the method of dating prefered by evolutionary scientists is not very reliable after 5000 years. And although there is the handful of dating ways which suggest the millions of years needed by evolution, there's 70+ ways of dating the earth which suggest a much younger earth (such as measuring the rate of helium evaporation, which evaporates / rises very quickly, like a helium balloon and our voice rises so with helium - if the world were so old, there'd be no helium left, it rises so quickly..
....To evolutionists all these things are anomalies. The second most held scientific law, says all matter is moving toward falling apart.. It's not moving toward improvement. "Natural Selection" has been believed for far longer than evolution, but it's used to represent evolution. But natural selection is like the famous peppered moth. On the island where the trees grow a white lichen on their bark, the brown peppered moths were picked off by their predators, and the white peppered moth survived and thrived; but on the island where the trees did not grow white lichen, the white moths were picked off, and the brown thrived and survivied. This is not the evolving from one life form to another, or to all life forms - bacteria to frog to all life.. dinosaur to bird. (Dinosaur is described in the bible more than any other animal. And scientists are now finding man and dinosaur existed together.)
.....Another example thought to be evolution is bacteria.. Antibiotic kills off the weaker cells and the stronger ones reproduce. This is the reproducing of what is already there, not the evolving of new characteristics or lifeform.
...Mutations are sideways moves, which are less efficient, not improvements.
...Mathematicians account anything as impossible which has less than one chance of occurring, than 1 out of 10000000000 (ten zeroes). They have stated that the chance of one of the (ten?) amino acids needed for life occurring randomly is less than 1 in 100000with 114 zeroes after it. That's just one of the amino acids needed for life. Science is observation of facts. Evolution is a faith (and is state enforced). It takes a lot of faith to believe life comes through a series of highly unlikely accidents..
....P.S. - your question is a very good one!

Answer 2

If you REALLY want to know what the scholars think, I would recommend reading a book. There are and were MANY species of simian (the species that includes monkeys). At one point, ONE branch of the species started slowly and subtly changing. Each generation was slightly different than the one before. Certain traits worked, others didn't and those traits did not survive to breed the NEXT generation, and so on. We did NOT evolve from chimpanzees or gorillas, but from a group of primates that we only have fossilized evidence of. An earlier form of what we now call human. Why does that primate not exist anymore? It does, it's US in a highly changed form.

Answer 3

people and monkeys do proceed to evolve and adapt. they have a bother-free ancestor - in spite of the fact that it wasn't a monkey, a minimum of no longer what you think of of as a monkey immediately. this is why there are nevertheless monkeys even after people developed into the style you notice immediately. it is likewise why 'the lacking link' has by no skill been discovered. rather everyone seems to be calling for transitional fossils showing a monkey/guy hybrid. whether there replaced right into a splendidly preserved fossil checklist going back hundreds of years - the evolution of mankind is going back thousands of hundreds of years. We in some circumstances get somewhat glimpse into the previous as quickly as we ensue upon some bones and random products of pottery, and so on. - yet those are all appreciably extra moderen. the only element your motor vehicle will do is evolve into is a pile of rust. It does not have the genetic code mandatory to evolve or adapt.

Answer 4

Animal populations of a species who have become geographically separated for a sufficiently long time will no more be able to reproduce and share (thus maintaining a minimal homogeneity) their genetic material.

The different populations of these species will eventually see their genetic baggages so differenciated (through naturally occuring genetic mutations and under the impacts of natural selection) that eventually even the possibility of interbreeding might become impossible (for biological, geographical, behavioral reasons). These different genetic lines will develop independently, and when they are so different that they can interbreed no more, they are said to have speciated - become different species.

Charles Darwin did the initial research on these evolutive processes by observing the different finch species he found on the Galapagos Islands, which led to his famous theory of evolution (which is so well established now that even if we still call it a theory, it is much more something like a scientific law). That he was able to develop this theory while genetic was not well understood is a considerable feat.

This is why today we can't (theorically) interbreed with simians of other species (like gorillas, chimpanzees, etc.) : at a point in the past, they differenciated sufficiently from us as to be considered different species - but of course, this did not prevent them from successfully surviving and living independently, as we humans do, until today.
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Answer 5

Theory.

But that question simply makes no sense. Just because one line of evolution from single-celled organisms resulted in us, that doesn't mean that no other lines of evolution could exist. Some apes evolved in a line that became us. Others branched off to chimpanzees, others branched off to gorillas, others branched off to orangutans, and so forth.

Dana's friend seems to assume that evolution moves in a line form "lower" to "higher," and once a "higher" organism exists, then there must not be any reason for the "lower" organisms to exist. But that is a misunderstanding of evolution. The only "line" that exists is that from one adaptation to another. We are not "higher" than other organisms, we are just more adaptive and better suited to more environments than most primates (because of our brains and our ability to alter our environment to suit our needs). The creatures best able to survive are the ones that survive, not the "higher" species. Some times, the best adapted might be a single-celled creature that feeds off of sulfur, not the bipedal primate with the big brain.

Answer 6

I don't think you know anything about evolution. There are different things that cause evolution to happen. Sometimes it's mutation, sometimes adaptation, gene flow, genetic drift, etc. Sometimes a species gives birth to a mutated offspring... Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it's bad. If it's bad, then it probably wont mate 'cause non of the other ones want them, and will not continue to prosper. Othertimes it's actually a good thing, and the opposite sex may be more attracted, so that version will continue to prosper. This does not eliminate the older version, it just creates a new version.

Answer 7

Some smart a**'s will come up with "mutations" as the solution

However, do you know anyone who has ever witnessed a mutation into another sub-species?

What I want to know is, Has evolution stopped? Why is there no evidence of evolution continuing today? Surely we would see some peculiar creatures around us, because not all mutations would be perfect, would they, there would logically be more errors than successes.

Or, maybe evolution is the real myth......?

Answer 8

We were split off from monkeys some of the monkeys became humans and some of the monkeys stayed as monkeys. Like splitting into two different species.

Answer 9

Did you hear that one in Sunday School? Maybe if you paid attention in science class, you would have learned that in evolution, mutations happen that change species over time. Whatever apelike ancestor we came from, turned into us. Therefore it was not JUST a monkey, it was an apelike creature destined to be a human over time. Therefore that creature would not still exist in it's previous form. We are now in it's place. We are it.

Answer 10

I guess the short answer here is that we took a different evolutionary path than the other breeds of primates. It's kinda like asking if sharks came from fish, how come there are still fish?