Why do religionists think its significant that some apes didnt evolve into humans?

Question

Evolution is driven by environmental change.

Sixteen millions years ago, some parts of Africa changed from Jungle to plain. Some parts of Africa remaind jungle.

Where the environment didnt change, no (little) adaptation occured. So the apes essentially stayed the same (todays apes). Where the enviornment did change, so did the primates or what we prefer to call our "ancestors".

Ape or ape-like ancestors who didnt stand as tall or run (scamper) as fast, didnt survive in a climate that no longer favored swinging from tree to tree as a means of escape from larger predators. The apes who survived were the ones who could see a little further because the stood a little taller. A taller or more erect standing ape, could see and anticipate predators better than other more hunched over apes.

So, for example, a Lion attacks a group of apes. Overtime, the ones who most often survive in the pack and the ones with the genetic inheritance of "little taller" or more erect.

Answer 1

They don't seem upset that many Christians never evolved into Atheists either. Must be from all the chemicals in their drinking water.

Answer 2

If education brings me from a knowledgeless infant, and I become a doctor eventually, does it follow that everyone that went to my school will become a doctor? Evolution is a blind process by which creatures that can find and successfully use a niche in the ecology will survive and breed. The ecology is always changing however, so the niches also do. Random mutations may result in the next generation being subtly more able to realise the altered niche. In fact more than one mutation may result in improved success, even if they do so in completely different ways. A simplistic explanation would be: over generations, the water level rises and mutations allow two groups of the same family to survive - one group has mutated for longer legs, the other has mutated for a larger lung capacity to hold breath longer. There will have been other mutations that didn'y help at all, but these would have given no breeding advantage and so less of this mutation will pass to future generations. You should also remember that we didn't evolve from the same ape species that exist today - there have been three million years of changes from the ape that both humans and modern apes are descended from. Think about your own family, if your great grandfather had red hair, it wouldn't make sense to wonder why some of your cousins didn't have red hair.

Answer 3

Evolution is a religion too. It has many beliefs which must be accepted on faith just like all the other religions.

For instance :
There is NO proof that the earth is even 6 million years old. This belief is based on assumptions. Science says that carbon dating can't date anything over 20,000 .

You state another doctrine: "Evolution is driven by environmental change" That's an assumption as cannot be proven.

It sounds logical, but there is not proof that apes changed quickly before they were all killed in the plains. That's an assumption.

This is all like another man made relgion.....assume certain things, and then base new doctrines on the old assumptions.

Answer 4

Any Judeo-Christian belief demands that one believes in a Creator God. Unspeculative study of all the facts (repeatable, observable occurrances) clearly show that Darwinian evolution is impossible. All mutations create a loss of information in the DNA and no naturally occurring mutations are known to do so. All so-called missing links to date have proven to be fakes, or either completely humans or completely apes (although they may be extinct species)
The Darwinists are going to have to come up with something better than that!

Answer 5

Actually, Islam has a great answer for where all of those excess apes have come from -

Ask them (the Jews) concerning the town standing close by the sea. Behold! they transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath. For on the day of their Sabbath their fish did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had no Sabbath, they came not: thus did We make a trial of them, for they were given to transgression.

When some of them said: "Why do ye preach to a people whom God will destroy or visit with a terrible punishment?"- said the preachers:" To discharge our duty to your Lord, and perchance they may fear Him."

When they disregarded the warnings that had been given them, We rescued those who forbade Evil; but We visited the wrong-doers with a grievous punishment because they were given to transgression.

When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions, We said to them: "Be ye apes, despised and rejected."

Qur'an 7:163-166 (YusufAli Translation)

And so we learn from the Qur'an that those who were returned to previous stages of being were, in fact, sinning Jews.

Alhamdulillah, Islam has the answer for everything.

Hail Satan,

Lazarus

Answer 6

Evolution is unproven voodoo science that has never explained how the very first life form came into existence. Creationism explains it because God created life.

Life can't evolve from non-life, and there had to be a 'first' life form, so it had nothing to evolve from. Therefore, God created it.

There is no proof that man evolved from apes, and Lucy has already been exposed as a hoax.

Answer 7

Those that think it's evidence against evolution don't really understand the theory at all. Simple as that. If anything, the fact that there are multiple species with similar features is evidence *for* evolution.

Answer 8

It's something for them to clutch at-they mistakenly think it casts doubt on the validity of evolution just like they latch onto the word theory. The one thing you learn after discussing evolution for a while with creationists is that they are totally disinterested in any facts. You can explain it to them until you are blue in the face and they just won't accept that evolution is a proven fact.

Answer 9

cuz it's noly a thoery that almost all europe followed only cuz they hated christianity, which means, if some another idiot (Darwen) said that human were donkeys, the circumstances of europe at that time would make them follow in blindly, not to mention that it can't be proved.

Answer 10

Theyare correct. But in another sense that they believe.
We are still apes, we fight, we manslaughter, we let others starve. thats animals behaviour!
If we were homo sapiens, we would behave in another way.
A human will first appear on earth maybe in 100.000 years, up until then, we are all still naked apes.