Religious & Spirituality section: No offense but ..........?

Question

a Lot of people think this whole evolve from monkey theory is riduculous. Really, if you tried to explain this to me in person i would most likely laugh and i dont Want to because i know it would be offensive!? but i respect your beliefs, so for every person who sits here and laughs @ anyones belief in God, just know this is how some of us think. you laugh at us & vice versa backatcha, Now.....

tell me Why didn't the gorillas in the zoo near my house Evolve? Thanks!

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Answer 1

Many laugh because they have been treated hurtfully by Christians. They don't want to echo back the kind of evil, hateful things said to them, they would rather laugh at believers than grimly condemn. For example, a preacher told my ex girlfriend that it was good that her father died when she was young so he wouldn't have to see her become a "Godless" Wiccan. I could never bring myself to say something so cold like that to another human being (then again, I'm not one to laugh at believers necessarily either).

As for the bit about the gorilla, you're not original. Christians have been asking that question for decades and putting their fingers in their ears every time someone responds (see linked source).

Answer 2

Evolution doesn't just happen for the sake of it. People make the mistake of thinking that evolution is about getting "better", whereas it is about being best suited to the precise environment they find themselves in. If a species exists in a stable environment they will stay the same forever. Why would they evolve? That's why sharks and crocodiles have not altered in 150 million years. They haven't needed to. All a species needs is security, food, shelter and freedom from predators. A gorilla in a zoo is the least likely organism to do any evolving.

Members of species isolated from the larger group, finding themselves under pressure to survive, will have to adapt, or die out. Usually the latter. If they are very, very fortunate one or two of them will have some characteristic that will give them the edge and enable them to survive. Those will go on to breed (the others will die) and that characteristic will continue in following generations. Over time this leads to dramatic shifts away from the original type. That is why, if we are evolved from apes, there are still apes. It's as straightforward as that.

That IS the answer to your question. Whether you are prepared to accept it or not is up to you.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

1) I don't laugh at YOU. I just don't agree with your beliefs. Can you see the difference?

2) I don't know why the gorillas didn't evolve. I'm not a scientist. Why? Does my ignorance prove anything?

Answer 5

First of all: that's not a question, second: do you really think I care about the fact that you're laughing at me when you believe in a fairytale yourself?

Answer 6

If you're even asking that question, that says to me that you barely even understand the theory... so really, how can you call it ridiculous? How much research have you done? How many books on the subject have you read? How can you just dismiss it like that?

Answer 7

Because evolution doesn't happen overnight. How bout you answer this - how come when I fashioned the shape of a man in the dirt in my yard, and breathed on it, it didn't hop up and start talking to me? I'm the Goddess of my house, so what gives?

Answer 8

http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/mevolu1.html

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In 1922, a bunch of bones were found in Nebraska by a man named Harold Cook. After studying the upper and lower jaws and the teeth of some thirty animals, a complete ape known as Ramapithecus was constructed on the basis of ONE TOOTH! Years later, the entire skeleton from which the tooth came was found. It turned out to be an extinct species of pig.

Dr. Eugene Dubois discovered the famous Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) in 1891. This "great discovery" consisted of a small piece of the top of a skull, a fragment of a left thigh bone, and three molar teeth. But, instead of being found all together, these remains were found in an area of about seventy feet, and they were found over about a year's time. They were also found in an old river bed with other assorted extinct animal bones. This, of course, presents a number of problems for Java Man. How can the "experts" be so sure that these remains all came from the same being? Better yet, how do such bones survive for 750,000 years without decaying? Where's the EVIDENCE to PROVE these theories? We know what the scientists want to believe about these findings, but WHERE'S THE PROOF?

Piltdown man was discovered by Charles Dawson in 1912. Dawson claimed to have found some bones, some teeth, and even some primitive implements in a gravel pit in Piltdown, Sussex, England. He took them to a British museum where anthropologists claimed that they were 500,000 years old. Textbooks throughout the world then proclaimed Piltdown Man as the greatest find to date. Then in October of 1956, Reader's Digest EXPOSED this finding as "The Great Piltdown Hoax." The bones where found to be fraudulent. The jaw bone was proven to have belonged to an ape which had died only FIFTY YEARS before (not 500,000). The teeth had been filed down, and both, teeth and bones, had been discovered with bichromate of potash to cover up their true identity! So much for Piltdown Man.

The so-called Neanderthal Man was discovered around 1900 in a cave in the Neanderthal Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany. Naturally, he was hailed as another great "missing link." Since that time, it has been proven that Neanderthal wasn't an ape-man at all. He turned out to be a fully erect human being with a cranial capacity of over 13% more than that of normal man. Today, he is classified as "Homo Sapiens" (completely human). The "missing link" is still missing.

Finally, we come to Lucy, a 40% skeleton found in Ethiopia by D.C. Johanson in the 70's. Johanson claimed that "Lucy" had walked on two legs, because of the "angle of the thigh bone and the flattened surface at it's knee joint" (National Geographic, December, 1976). However, the knee joint was badly crushed; so Johanson's conclusion is mere speculation. Anatomist Charles Oxnard said the "Lucy" did NOT walk upright, at least not in the same manner as humans. The chimpanzee DOES spend some time walking upright, so this was probably just another ape.

Now this is the kind of "evidence" which supports evolution. This is what a child is taught in the public school system and in the state universities as "scientific fact." This is what the Bible labels as "science falsely so called" (I Tim. 6:20).


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