Why aren't monkeys turning into humans today?

Question

Libs and scientists claim that we came from monkeys, and that God did not make us, yet of all the monkeys in the world not one has ever turned into a human being in recorded history. If this evolution thing is true why don't we see monkeys still turning into humans?

Answer 1

Most Conservitives believe in evolution as well. In fact most Christians do not see Genisis as a literal thing. How else would you explain evolution to a illiterate shepard back when bronze ruled the world or maybe even before bronze. Who knows how long the old testement was an oral tradition rather than written. What is for sure is that the oldest known translations come from Hebrew texts. Hebrew did not exist as a language back when much of the events of the Bible happened. Even as recent as the Exodus Hebrew had not come to exist as a language yet.

I have only to look around the world today to see evolution happening. I also have only to look around the world to see evidence of God's hand in the world. I am deffinitely not a Left winger. Not a Right winger really either. I am deffinitely not a moderate. So your stereotyping me as a lib and an athiest is offensive really.

Now to address the meat of your question. According to current theories we did not descend from species of monkey's in existance today. In fact those monkeys also came from the species which humans are theorized to have evolved. It's still a theory since the whole trail hasn't been found and since it is far from proven. Many mistakes have been made and found in the quest of our origions.

So literally they can't. The species which man descended from have long since gone extinct. Some likely due to newer species. Many people still feel the demise of the neanderthal was hastened by cro-magnum man. As for a human like species arrising from existing apes, that is a possibility. There are actually reports from Africa of apes using complex tools like rifles. How much of that is pure fiction is unknown, however if there is any truth to it, then the environment will then be set for evolutionary change. Right now the big apes have little incentive to evolve. They rule the environment they exist in. So mutations do not really aid survival and tend to get washed out of the gene cycle or passed down as recessive genes. Complex tool usage and active compitition with humans for living space would be the kind of evolutionary pressure needed to see certain traits favored. For example if warring gurillas (the ape kind) attack humans, those who adopt human weapons are more likely to survive such battles. Those traits will be passed on until all Ape of those tribes are those with a predisposition to use human weapons. Since most big apes are not carnivores. They eat insects so they are not strict vegitarians. The use of rifles will not help them feed themselves unless they become omnivores. I have no idea if their metabolism is capable of such behavior. I do suspect that the omivore instinct is what seperated the great apes from the human tree of evolution. Hunting provided new incentives and challenges. Both of which I think helped improve the species. That is an idea without any real factual basis and might be completely off. What isn't is environmental pressure on the big apes which for the first time in thousands of years presents a real threat to their existance.

As for evolution happening. For most species it takes thousands of years. We don't have the necessary observation time yet to see it happening in the more complex life forms. We do however have good examples in the insect world where generations happen in a very short time. Probably the most notable was fire ants in North America developing a multi-queen system. No other ant does this. Never in history have we found evidence of an ant with multiple queens. When fire ants came to North America they were like other ants, had but a single queen. The intense efforts to eradicate them have produced evolutionary changes in fire ants. Resistances to poisons, multiple queens, the ability to deal with cold well below what the origional fire ant species could previously tolerate. Fire ants are a species of ants that in 100 years may mutate into something beyond ants. 100 years is less than a blink of an eye in world history.

Answer 2

You're misinformed about what evolution means. That's not what it's about. Humans did not evolve from monkeys, and monkeys don't turn into humans. That's ridiculous.

Evolution works like this: when a new life is created, it is not usually an exact copy of its ancestors. It has changed a little bit. If those changes make life hard for the new organism, it'll probably end up dying. If the changes prove to be useful to the new organism, then it won't die, and it'll get a chance to pass those changes on to its children. After many, many, many generations of small changes accumulating, eventually you get a new species.

It's worth pointing out that if you're religious, there's nothing wrong with saying that God made humans, through the process of evolution. There's no conflict.

Answer 3

The duration of recorded history is too brief for the magnitude of evolutionary change you demand. However, rest assured that monkeys are changing into something. All species change, first by adaptation, then by mutation and natural selection.

There's a small amount of webbing between human fingers and toes. Gee, I wonder why. On the back of the human hand, you can see folds in the skin where scales were anchored in the skin of our reptile forebears. Our appendix was used by early mammals to digest grass, which is what ruminants and some rodents still use it for today. And if we don't have tails, then why do we have coccyx bones?

By the way, when is God coming back to Earth? I've never seen any gods about town. Nor am I certain that any of the various books for which divine inspiration is claimed are, in fact, any such thing, since I could easily write such a book myself. When can I expect to see a god? Next week? Do I have to make an appointment? Does He have a telephone number?

Answer 4

No, you're saying it. Scientists examining the fossil record and genome have determined that over a period of 55 million years, monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Wait 55 million years and see if monkeys evolve into something interesting.

Answer 5

Obviously you don't have a true concept of time. Evolution rarely occurs over a 10,000 (Recorded human history) or even 30,000 year time span. There is scientific evidence for a few other species evolving faster (~100 year time span), but they are the exception because their lifespans are short.

It has been genetically proven that about 150,000 years ago a dramatic even occurred that caused homosapiens to branch from the Primate tree (we didn't evolve from moneys--we separated from a similar ancestor) start walking upright. There is a reason why women hold more power than men, and why men try to subjugate women because of the fear of that power.

Google for the book "Time, Sex and Power" for a fascinating, in-depth discussion on the whys and wherefores of human development from another species.

Answer 6

1. This is not an anthropology question. Anthropology is the study of humans, not their origins.
2. The fossil evidence indicates that humans did evolve from less intellectual, more chimp-like, primates. It seems reasonable to conclude from this evidence, in combination with your faith, that evolution is the method by which God chose to create humans.
3. If you simply do not care for science, stay out of scientific forums.

Answer 7

Notice how there are hundreds of species of apes and monkeys? We were originally one of the other species. If we were gorillas, there would be no gorillas today.

I respect religion but if you disregard the possibility of evolution, you really need to open your eyes. Tail bones for tails we no longer have, an appendix that serves no purpose anymore, but is attached to the mainway of out digestive tract, families with the genetics to create hair all over their bodies, and finally, some cases of babies being born without a pinkie toe, because of shoes, our bodies are not requiring the extra digit for balance anymore.

We may have never been monkeys or apes, but we are similar in features and characteristics. It's like comparing a horse to a giraffe; they both have hooves, tails, manes, walk on four legs, and eat plants. It doesn't mean they're from the same genus or species; they have a commonplace, as do we with chimpanzees.

Answer 8

1evolution in basic terms occurs whilst there is choose for it. Monkeys won't substitute into human beings because of the fact monkeys stay in places the place its extra useful to be a monkey (then human) 2evolution is sluggish, your image of a monkey transforming into a monkey over night is untrue, it has taken somewhat some time (and steps) from monkey to human 3half monkey-0.5 human beings do no longer exist anymore, the early human beings killed somewhat some different humanoid species (and ate somewhat some them) or in the event that they did no longer kill them they "bypass breed" so in the tip there became in basic terms a million style of human left

Answer 9

Uh...we didn't evolve from monkeys. According to scientific evidence, humans, apes, and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago. Early humans (called hominids) inhabited Africa for a very long time. They eventually gave rise to other human species, who branched out to Asia and Europe. Early apes and monkeys branched into their own evolutionary tree.

Answer 10

"Monkeys" did not turn into humans. Apes and humans share a common ancestor who is long extinct now.
Where do you think the tail bone comes from?