If apes evolved into humans, why are there still apes?

Question

The theory that science gives in the creation of the earth is more unbelievable than the Bible. Something supposedly just exploded into every living thing. People call christians crazy for beleiving in Christ. How crazy are the ones that believe in this.

Answer 1

I've seen this probably 50 times here.
Apes are still here because bananas need something to eat them

Answer 2

A very interesting question. I've been following this debate since the Sixties. The brilliant by-line of Evolutionists always was, "Man evolved from the Apes..." Then the question was posed: "In evolution the original model is replaced by the new, improved 'evolved' model, is it not? By this reckoning if Man did evolve from the Apes then why do Apes still exist?" After a pregnant pause the Evolutionists starting singing, "We evolved from a common ancestor!" Now that's a far cry from 'Man evolved from the Apes.'

So the question to evolutionists now is: "Where is that common ancestor, the fabled Missing Link?" Their battle cry now is, "Man and Chimps share (take your pick) 90, 98, 99, 99.9% DNA." Duh! Of course Creation shares DNA. All life on Earth was Created in a sealed environment, that eco-sphere we call the... Earth, from the same building blocks, since all life on Earth is based on the carbon atom.

When it is pointed out that evolution would involve unions for which no evidence exists between hominoids and apes that would result in the birth of a hybrid (hybrids are born sterile) the Evolutionist starts asserting, "Speciation..." Not two species creating a third, but a single species birthing a third or more species. The question now is: "When has it been known that an Ape birth anything but an... Ape?" Animals kill their own young when they sense that they are... defective or different. Speciation may work in the plant kingdom, but is stretch in the animal kingdom.

The real question is: "Where did Modern Man come from?" There is no real evidence for evolution, as he does not fit the evolutionary pattern. Modern Man just appeared on the scene one fine day and may have killed off other primordial hominoids. There is no evidence that he cross-bred with them. Seeing how Modern Man can't even get along with one another in this enlightened day and age, is it any wonder that our ancestors may have killed off early sub humans? May be that our ancestors left the apes, monkeys and chimps alone because they were less of a 'threat' than Neanderthals and their kind?

So, where DID Modern Man come from? Could he have really been exiled from... Eden? Is the Evolutionist really so frightened of that possibility? Food for thought.

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Answer 3

No, this is not the 50th time we've seen this same question. It's at least the 250th time just since I've been on this forum!

I think I'll just cut to the chase.
You have not asked a meaningful question. First because you don't understand what evolution actually proposes. Imagine some asking "If there is a God, then why are there atheists?" The 2 parts of the sentence have nothing to do with each other. It's the same with yours.

Unfortunately, the only way for you to create a meaningful question re evolution is to STUDY evolution, or at least familiarize yourself with its main tenets. The Marvel Comics version will not do.

Answer 4

Believing this is not crazy, and the reason it's not crazy is that this is what the evidence shows us. How else can we find out about the world, except by looking at the evidence? The reason we can have confidence in evolution as the explanation for our origins is that there are dozens of different *kinds* of evidence which all show that living organisms (including us) are related by common descent. If there was only one kind of evidence, then you could certainly choose not to believe it. Two independent kinds of evidence would be rather harder to explain away. Evolution has dozens of different kinds of evidence which all point to the same thing, so there is simply no way that any rational person could deny it.

Anyway, to the main point of your question: Humans *are* apes, descended from earlier apes. Our closest relatives are chimpanzees, and the most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

The way to understand our origins is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.

Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents, because reproduction is imperfect - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to survive and reproduce).

However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

NB: The reason we're classed as apes is that there is no valid way to group all the other apes together that doesn't also apply to humans. In other words, whatever criteria you use to define what is an ape, in order to include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangs and gibbons, humans will also fit those criteria. Indeed, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas, and gorillas are more closely related to humans and chimpanzees than they are to orangs, so any classification that separated humans out from those other apes would not make any sense.

Answer 5

Many people, including myself, believe in God and in the Creation, but we may differ in believing in which way the creation took place, or, more correctly takes place, as I am convinced that it still goes on.

What if God chose Evolution as his tool for the creation of living creatures to take place?

Do you really think it is likely that God sat at a drawing table to design every single creature in every planet in the universe?

About the apes, some of them found the conditions or were forced to evolve because of environmental changes, while others are still quite successful in their environment jumping between the trees.

It took millions of years for the mammals to evolve, but we can actually observe the evolution of smaller creatures with very short generation times, such as germs and viruses, or even some insects during our life time.

Think of HIV, it didn't exist a few decades ago.

Answer 6

Is it likely I am going to punch you in the face for asking this innately STUPID question AGAIN??? Yes, it is likely....


MAN DID NOT DESCEND FROM APE, YOU MORON. TAKE YOUR FACE OUT OF YOUR BIBLE AND GO READ A BOOK ON SCIENCE BEFORE POSTING RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS!!! Do you people have any idea how ignorant these questions make you appear????

Man and ape share a common ancestor. Learn to understand. Your feeble brain is too primitive to understand, which is why you accept a God as creator, instead of chaos....

Answer 7

We did not evolve from any ape alive today. We evolved from an early form of primate that is no longer alive.

Perhaps you should do some real research on the subject before putting it down.

Answer 8

Wow a lot of funny questions today. Learn a thing or two about the theory before you try come up with an intelligent argument against it.

Answer 9

lmao.some people r 2 serious and get sooo angry about religion v science.everyone can ask what they want.everyone can believe what they want.i stay out of most conversations like that, but i thought i'd lighten things up.there are still apes because early man realized he was going to hell in a hand-basket and found a way to de-evolve.

Answer 10

The only sentence in your comments that has any truth to it is "People call Christians crazy for believing in Christ."

Answer 11

One species of ape evolved into humans about a million years ago-there your "argument" has been shot down in flames as easily as that. I don't usually resort to personal abuse on any forum but Creationists really are cretins.