If evolution happened then why did it stop?

Question

Also, If we came from monkeys then why are there still monkeys, and why aren't there any half monkey/half humans running around today. If we why isn't any thing evolving anymore? I don't believe in evolution but I just wanted to get some different answers from people out there.

Answer 1

evolution never stops.

it just takes place so slowly that scientists debate over it because you might as well watch a pearl grow ->long process.

here is a different perspective on things that not everyone likes to hear. Especially racists so here goes;

if you were to take a completely white (caucasion) city and drop in into africa amazingly after around 3,000-5,000 years their skin color will be as many people refer to as black! so all racists out there you are only making fun of someone who is more resistant to the heat than you are so deal with it.

the sam happens when you switch it around and take a completely "African" city and drop it in north america.

as you might notice all tribes, natives, peoples that live along the equator are darker complected whilst all northern and southern natives are lighter complected.

this is evolution on a small scale and i could go on forever talking about this subject because i love biology, medicine, physics... pretty much everything except history.

hope you all learned something from this and this proves that evolution does take place - voluntarily or unvoluntarily,

demosthenes

Answer 2

Evolution is what happened. It took millions of years to develop our creatures, and develop the oil in the ground. Once it's gone, it's gone for millions of years and we will have to do without (Google "Peak Oil" to see what I mean). Evolution also endangers our health - the widespread use of antibiotics allows bacteria to evolve into strains resistant to these antibiotics.

No monkey ever changed into a human. Each animal that was born was a little different from its parents, and so over millions of years, new creatures can develop. It's possible for an offshoot line to evolve and still leave the main line intact. That's why we have both humans and monkeys. There are half monkey/half humans out there - the non-human great apes, such as the gorilla and orangutan. As I pointed out earlier, evolution is still going on. Maybe evolution among humans has stopped, because in prehistoric days, humans with defects such as bad vision or hemophilia would have died out without progeny, but today they marry and have children, and so the defect persists. But it seems to me that only in humans has evolution stopped. In the rest of the world, it is still going on.

Answer 3

It hasn't stopped. Most evolution takes place at the unseen (and boring) level of resistance to diseases. Diseases evolve constantly, and the human population evolves to survive the new strains of diseases. Without evolution the human race would go extinct. Do you think that is what God intended?

And if Christians came from Jews, why are there still Jews?

When you cross a horse and a donkey you get a mule, which is sterile. Obviously, going through a pregnancy to produce a child which is doomed to sterility was/is not something people (nor monkeys) want to do. People have EVOLVED to find apes and monkeys ugly so that we don't mate with them.

Answer 4

Evolution hasn't stopped, as any hospital dealing with drug-resistant bugs knows all too well. Humans and some apes evolved from a common ancestor which has since gone extinct. Evolution is now a proven fact; if you want details, write via avatar.

Answer 5

Well, I was going to lay into you, but I see the usual cast of young evolutionists have had their very good say. So, one thing. Evolution does not need your belief to be true and is true whether you believe in evolution, or not. You points have been refuted. Do you know what that means? It means you have been shown wrong, not just rebutted. Science does not rest on anyone belief, but on the accumulated and oft challenged evidence. Evolution by natural selection has withstood all attacks against it, from within and from without the scientific community. Some say it is a unfalsifiable theory, but it has yet to be refuted and the evidence just keeps coming in. Creation, is also not falsifiable, in truth, not just "some say", but not one stick of empirical evidence has been presented. Faith, they say, needs no evidence, but they are the ones attacking science. I think out of desperate fear that they will be rendered superfluous, as if they were not that already. We see you people always in the biology section, but I, for one, have never been in the religious section. What you people hope to accomplish over here with no evidence and just diatribe, is well beyond me. Good luck; you are going to need it, as education is something you seem not to think you need.

Answer 6

You're misunderstanding evolution. We did NOT evolve from monkeys, humans and monkeys evolved from a common ape-LIKE ancestor. Monkeys, apes, and humans did not exist hundreds of millions of years ago. These species can after millions of years of trial and error. Prehistoric monkeys found it easier to survive by having a tail and feet that can grip branches. Prehistoric humans found it easier to survive by having long, strong legs and a advanced tool-making skills. Over the millions of years, they developed these features and grew further apart in appearance.

There WERE ape-like humans millions of years ago, but they died out.

Evolution is still happening. It is just a very slow process. It can't be witnessed in a few short years. It takes millions of years to see physical differences in long living animals and plants. But for a quick evolutionary process, check out bacteria. Bacteria can evolve very quickly because it's short life span. From generation to generation, they can react quickly to changing environments. When antibacterial medicines were first discovered, it only took a small dose to kill most bacteria. Today, it takes several doses of the same antibacterial to kill bacteria. Some species of bacteria have evolved to resist antibacterial medication all together! That's thanks to evolution.

But I don't know why I'm typing this....I'm not going to change your beliefs.

Answer 7

Evolution has not stopped... Ever heard of Darwin's finches of the Galapogos islands? Microevolution is happening there as we speak. Macroevolution takes thousands of years at least though, that's why we don't see any of that.

Actually, now that I think of it, the emergence of different strains of viruses or the developed tolerance for antibiotics by bacteria are both evolution that we can see today.

Secondly, this is a common misconception. The theory of evolution states that we SHARED a common ANCESTOR with most primates today, not that we "came" from them.

Answer 8

The fallacy of you premise is wonderfully ludicrous. shiomi ryuu said it best in the last line. Your "question" wasn't a question, just a terribly misinformed statement. Before I saw the WONDERFUL INTELLIGENT answers, I was just going to say that evolution isn't happening fast enough for me, because people like you still exist. Too bad so sad.

Answer 9

It takes place over millions of years, and you've got what? maybe fifty more at most on this Earth. It's not like you can see it happening any more than you can watch Mount Everest gain a millimeter of altitude in a year's time.

Answer 10

It hasn't stopped..naturalists have discovered animals in small ecological enclaves that have been observed to have evolved over the space of a few generations...