Evolution???

Question

Did man actually evolve from an ape? If so, why is it that apes are not extinct? Why is it we still live in harmony with them? When will the rest of the apes evolve? I believe that God created the ape, just as he created man, the earth, and all the other animals. Was it not Noah that loaded two apes on the ark? Evolution actually sounds silly when you think about it. What do you believe?

Answer 1

I believe that evolution is a man-made theory, therefore it is flawed. It is a lie and cover up. It is man's way of saying that they do not need God. The problem is that God is always here and always the same. However, evolution theory will change over time.

Answer 2

I believe you need to do some more reading about evolution. Man didn't evolve from ape. Man and the great apes have a common ancestor, two distinct species, therefore you will not see current apes evolve into man. You state evolution sounds silly in one breath and then reference something from the Noahs Ark story with the next breath. Have you read the story of Noahs Ark? Genesis? Talk about a silly, fantasy world. Evolution, while not perfect, and while not complete (yet), is still the most reasonable, and logical theory we have. I suggest a lot more research for you concerning evolution. Actually learn what evolution is saying and don't go to your favorite intelligent design website for the biased info, do some real reading.

Answer 3

Do you not realize how many times a week this stupid question is asked? (and answered, but I realize believers don't actually read the answers) I may as well ask "If god created man from dirt, why is there still dirt?"

Evolution theorizes that man and apes BOTH evolved from a common ancestor. Chimps are our closest relatives, sharing 98% of the same DNA as humans. It is thought we and the chimps split from a common (and now extinct) ancestor about 6 million years ago. Please read a proper book or website on evolution....Dr Dino isn't. Answers in Genesis also doesnt' count

You can "believe" whatever you like...that doesn't mean that's what happened. Creationism and Noah actually sounds extremely silly when you think about it. The problem is, you haven't actually THOUGHT about it at all. You have just believed what your pastor spoonfed you.

I prefer facts to belief. The facts are that evolution did happen, and is happening. It is the single best explanation for the wide variety of life we see around us, and to explain the evidence of the fossil record. I know facts are hard....you actually have to think, and read something other than the bible.

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DORSEYSWIFE
Where to start? Wow...you may have taken lots of biology and genetics classes, but did you read the texts or pass the exams?
How the hell does granite prove a creator? It proves that there is a core of magma under the crust of the earth.
The Inuit have only been living in Northern climates for a few 1000 years, not long enough to evolve into something different. People in tropical climates have evolved dark skins to deal with the sun, not reflective ones...though that sounds interesting.
There is NO scientific proof of creationism, the IDiots do no original research, their only purpose is to find fault or doubt with evolution. It is a moribund idea which has been soundly defeated in scientific circles as well as in the courts. The overwheliming majority of scientists support evolution, not creationism.
For you to say that fruit flys share more DNA than chimps, and then in the next line to say you are educated. Sorry. You are uneducated and just plain wrong.
You're blind ignorance should be embarassing to you, I'm embarassed for you.


"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

I think that if I had a dollar for every time an ignorant believer posted this question I would be very rich indeed. But to treat it with way more respect than it deserves...

Man and the apes, indeed every species on the planet have common ancestors the vast majority of which do not exist today, read The Ancestors Tale by Dawkins ro get some idea as to how it works.

Apes will only evolve from their current state if there are selection pressures on them to do so. Most of the selection pressures at the moment are from trying to avoid death from human beings and as evolution works over geological time for the most part they will probably die out as a species and will be an evolutionary dead end.

Relativity and quantum theory sound way more silly than evolution yet happen to be true, I suggest an education.

Answer 5

Energy creates atoms, creates matter, all life and objects are made out of matter. God's Spirit would be then pure energy. Therefore from the Creation viewpoint he created the Heavens and the Earth he created all life, through this pure energy.

There has been no missing link found. Some animals can evolve to a certain stage and no further. Some creatures have remained exactly the same for millions of years. Therefore is it possible that since God created the monkey he could have also created man in his un-evolved stage and we are a completely separate species?

Answer 6

I hear this argument all of the time...it is a bad argument. Christians belief that God created man from the dust...so using your own argument towards this belief can you tell me why there is still dust???

Let me put evolution in a different way that may appear to your limited Christian thinking. You believe that all of mankind originated with Adam & Eve, right? Now, if we are all decendants of these original parents then why doesn't all of humanity share the same characteristics? Look at your family line. Doesn't the majority share similar features & characteristics? Changes occured, however, as different cultures and backgrounds married into your family. Even in Christianity you would have to conceed that evolution must exist to some degree or another. Otherwise, how do you explain such variation by region in humanity? Black? White? Asian? Indian? Clearly humanity has undergone some changes since Adam & Eve. Since the bible does not attempt to explain this variation we must conclude that evolution is the cause.

So, if you think about it, evolution isn't so silly, is it?

Answer 7

Humans and modern apes evolved from a protoape; humans did not evolve from modern apes. The other apes have evolved for their environments. We do not live in harmony with apes. Gorillas are endangered by poaching. Orangutans are endangered because of man's destruction of their habitats. Since you got nothing right, evolution sounds even better than it did before you asked your question.

Answer 8

What it sounds like is neither here nor there-a fact is a fact and biological evolution definitely occurs. Mother nature isn't concerned about your subjective view of what's silly. Everything evolves due to evolutionary pressures in their environment and apes, mankind and every other species are evolving continually however now that man controls the environment he also limits the evolutionary pressures acting on species. Species are going extinct now at a faster rate than ever before precisely because they are unable to adapt to changes made by man to their habitats.

Answer 9

Man and apes evolved from a common ancestor, starting about ten million years ago. Evolution is now a proven fact, so it is time that you learned how it works; see the reference for a fascinating account. As for the ark story, it is pure fantasy; half a dozen separate scientific disciplines (as well as eyewitness accounts dating from the purported time) show that the tale is fiction.

Answer 10

if you spend FIVE MINUTES researching evolution on the internet, you can answer these questions. You think that evolution sounds silly because you have not read anything about it other than creationist propaganda. Do you really think this sounds more silly than: an unseen unshown all powerful god creating TWO human beings, placing them in a garden, then populating the earth from these two people, and at the same time telling us that incest is wrong???? If you do, then there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with your sense of logic.

I don't believe in creationism, I don't believe in evolution, I accept evolution as a FACT.
Did you know that churches all over the world are protesting a Kenyan museum that is trying to display an exhibit showing the evolution of mankind USING actual fosils, and that creationists have been sending the museum bomb threats?
http://213.243.16.209/article.php?enewsid=53247

Answer 11

I think you and every other "believer" in creationism needs to study evolution before making such uneducated statements as "man didn't evolve from ape."
Evolution does not state ANYWHERE that man evolved from apes.
Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification.
Biological evolution is not simply a matter of change over time. Lots of things change over time: trees lose their leaves, mountain ranges rise and erode, but they aren't examples of biological evolution because they don't involve descent through genetic inheritance.

The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother.

Through the process of descent with modification, the common ancestor of life on Earth gave rise to the fantastic diversity that we see documented in the fossil record and around us today. Evolution means that we're all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales.

Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees. Humans and chimpanzees are evolutionary cousins and share a recent common ancestor that was neither chimpanzee nor human.

Humans are not "higher" or "more evolved" than other living lineages. Since our lineages split, humans and chimpanzees have each evolved traits unique to their own lineages.