a question for Atheists and those who believe in evolution!!!?

Question

Hi, i know every1 get annoyed very quickly nowadays when asking religious questions. I'm not offending any1 or being religious something, just that:
you(Atheists) say that all living animals and humans have been evolutioned during time. for example you say humans from monkeys(or whatever Atheists say, put the monkey as an example). but who created the monkey at the first place? evolutioned by some other kind of animal? but what about that animal and those before it?!?! where does it end? or start!

again, don't take it as an offense. thanks

Answer 1

It's common sense, God created life, eventually things change, and that's when evolution comes in.

Answer 2

Alright, where to begin?

When you look at the most basic of single cellular organisms, you see that they are made up of a system of molecules working together.

Well, when the world had been first created through debris that had sbun off from the sun, the world was full of rushing energy. The materials solidified for the most part, but it was still full of energy that was going everywhere. Some of the left overs, what didn't solidify with the earth, was being scattered everywhere. When these things came in contact, the energy would create a bond between them. Some of these bonds would be what was necessary for life. Others were simply other molecules, such as CO2 and H20. The ones that did create life became the first single cellular organisms with absolutley no nucleus, or in other words, no brain.

So, there's the start, and truthfully, there is no end.

Answer 3

No offense taken. There are a couple of points I'd like to make, however, if you don't mind. One is that there is not necessarily a connection between atheism and evolution. Atheism is a word describing the non-belief in a deity, evolution is a scientific theory.

Another point is that no one who has studied evolution would say that humans evolved (not "evolutioned") from monkeys, but that the great apes and humans share a common ancestor.

You might want to do some research on how evolution works. I'm sure you'd be fascinated.

Answer 4

1) The vast majority of people who accept evolution are not atheists.

2) 'Evolutioned' is not a word. Try 'evolved'.

3) Evolution doesn't say that people came from monkeys. You either have been lied to to or you don't understand what you heard.

4) Evolution says that humans and apes (and all other creatures) had a common ancestor if you go back far enough - just like you and your brother have a common ancestor (your parents) and you and your cousin have a common ancestor (your grandparents).

5) It began with the first living creature. That's where evolution starts, and it doesn't say ANYTHING about where that creature came from.

6) It has no reason to end.

Answer 5

No offence taken. I am not an atheist, but I'll take a stab at this.

You've basically got the gist of it... if you go far enough back in the human lineage, going back ancestor to ancestor to ancestor, you would find, going backwards, that humans lose some of their distinguishing characteristics: language, high foreheads, flat jaws, upright walking, and hairlessness. You would eventually reach an ancestor who would look much like a monkey, if you go back far enough.

Now if you do the same thing with this monkey - chasing down its ancestors through time, you would reach earlier and more primitive forms... you'd reach something that looked like a lemur, then something that looked like a shrew, until eventually, you're with a reptile, then a salamander-like amphibian, then a lungfish type of creature in the water.

All life alive today, according to Darwin traces to simpler and earlier forms, all tracing back to one or few common ancestors.

About this, evolution offers no answer - evolution is not a theory of the source of life, it generally only speaks to how it transformed and speciated after it initially arose.

Answer 6

Your first mistake is that science doesn't say humans didn't evolve from monkeys.

The second mistake is that you're assuming that someone had to create the common ancestor we (monkeys, apes, and humans) came from.

Science does not say any of these things were created by a being.

Now, as for where that primate came from, probably a low level mammal that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. The exact one has yet to be found (that DOES NOT DEFAULT to religion being right. It only means that it hasn't been found. Thats it, thats all).

If the great extinction hadn't happened, its entirely possible that dinosaurs would have ruled the Earth forever. Its even theorized that the raptors were extremely intelligent and could quite possible have evolved into the dominant species.

You honestly need to go back to school. Really bad. I shouldn't have to answer these questions for you, you should already know them. Then again, if you actually think that science says we came from monkeys, then the education system has already failed you.

Now, science actually believes that all life came from the oceans and evolved from that point (did you know a human fetus has gills in the first month of development or so?).

Please, go study.

Answer 7

Evolution states that over generations, species will naturally change slightly (mutation). Some mutations will be beneficial to the species and individuals with those mutations will probably have more offspring and pass those mutations along. Some mutations will be detrimental and those individuals will probably have less change of having survivning offspring.

Evolution does NOT state that humans evolved from monkeys. It does state that since humans and monkey are similar, that they both may have evolved from a common ancestor. You can if you wish take this to the logical extreme that states that all life on earth is evolved from a single first living unicelled organism.

Evolution does not concern itself with how the first cellular (proto-ancestor) was created. It is concerned with the process of change after that.

Many scientists and evolutionary biologists stll believe in God. Creationism and Evolutionary thought can co-exist quite well.

Answer 8

Evolution doesn't cover this for the record. It only covers how life progresses after there is life. Life started very simple as single cells. There are even things called viruses that are arguably both alive and not alive.

The short answer is that we know a big chunk of the chemistry, but it hasn't actually been done in the lab. YET. They are certainly getting closer and in the next 20 years of so you will see lab created life.

AND WE DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS. Please don't hang a neon sign over your question that says "I can't pass 8th grade science class." the next time.

Answer 9

I'm not atheist, however, the concept of evolution is in keeping with the order I've come to know and appreciate from my Creator. As fanciful as the pheonix is, we all know it does not and cannot exist. The same with any other mythological creature made up from the fevered imagination of man, such as the griffin, the roc or the sphinx. Evolution has proven those things wrong. Genetically speaking, even two closely related creatures such as the donkey and the horse, when forced to mate (which they wouldn't in nature) beget off-spring that cannot reproduce. In this way, evolution (which is a root word of "revolution" and its opposite) is in concordance with the Plan of the Creator. The more that our intelligence reveals to us, the more I can be in awe of His far-reaching meticulously laid Plan. Regard nature and be in awe of God!

Even the Earth itself has a spirit, a soul, that He has created for us, and perhaps, when all that is said and done, as children of the Earth, we are her voice, and the voice of the Earth is constantly praising God.

So, it is the spirits and souls of the past and those of the future and those in the now are yearning to be re-united in God, to find full satisfaction and rest within His all-encompassing arms.

Answer 10

The first life emerged something like four billion years ago in a process called abiogenesis. Basically complex chemical reactions over millions of years produced simple, organic molecules, which eventually became self-replicating and then developed into extremely simple forms of life. That's where evolution started. The theory of evolution itself makes no claims about the origins of life.

Answer 11

I guess you don't take any science classes... You are approaching the question from the wrong mindset. You still think that there is a creator in evolution. No one created monkeys. That's what evolution is. There is no creator, it is in a way descent with modification. Favoured traits are kept as they somehow provide better fitness to the organism. That means that through out time, the beneficial genes are kept and others are eventually lost from the gene pool.