did we REALLY evolve from monkeys or is that a myth?

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Answer 1

yes we did

Answer 2

Not the monkeys of today, they are just distant cousins. Apes are not monkeys, the ape family includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, oragutans and a couple others I forget which. Our DNA is something like 96 or 98% similar to a chimpanzee's DNA, so they are very close cousins indeed on the family tree. We are mammals just like apes, or dogs, or ponies. We have the same sexual organs, mammary glands, and most all internal organs are the same among mammals. So yes, we are evolved from earlier versions of apes, as are our cousins the other apes. Man in his quest to appear greater than other animals has developed religions to explain he is descended from some god being, or created by one. Many cultures, such as jews, muslims mutilate their males to remove the foreskin so that our reproductive organs look different than other mammals--so we can't be the same if we look different! Anyone can examine the facts and see we are mammals that lucked out and evolved greater brain capacity and dexterity to use that brain capacity to make weapons, tools, etc. If you look at some of the few stone age tribes still relatively uncontaminated by modern culture, they have a culture much like some of the great apes, except for the capacity to use and make more tools.

Answer 3

Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory about the origin of adaptation, complexity, and diversity among Earth's living creatures. If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar with the terminology of science, and unaware of the overwhelming evidence, you might even be tempted to say that it's "just" a theory. In the same sense, relativity as described by Albert Einstein is "just" a theory. The notion that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa, offered by Copernicus in 1543, is a theory. Continental drift is a theory. The existence, structure, and dynamics of atoms? Atomic theory. Even electricity is a theoretical construct, involving electrons, which are tiny units of charged mass that no one has ever seen. Each of these theories is an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally—taking it as their best available view of reality, at least until some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along.

Answer 4

Well, monkeys are so similar to people, in terms of their motions, reactions, and expressions. Some people I know are a lot like monkeys too.

I think Darwin's theory on evolution is well-founded and it really makes sense--from survival of the fittest to natural selection, etc.

I also want to point out that I am Christian, and I realize that many of my fellow Christians claim that Darwin's theory on evolution is wrong because it doesn't match the Bible. I see no reason why the two ideologies cannot coexist.

Science is based on discovered facts and indisputable, logical, replicable experiments.

We believe that the Old Testament is the word of God, however a better description would be the "ideas of God." Before it was ever written in Hebrew, most of it was passed down verbally, through many, many generations, in the form of stories which used analogies to demonstrate ideas or events. (Much like the game of telephone).

People did not memorize them word for word as Muslims did with the Qur'an, for example. Because of this, the Bible (especially the Old Testament) should not be interpreted literally.

Is there anyone out there who really wants to argue that Noah lived to be 950 years old? Is that Earth years or some form of God's years?

Anyhow, to sum it all up, humans are closest to Monkeys in the chain of evolution than any other animals.

Answer 5

I believe that we didn't evolve for monkeys. Scientist only say that because they think they have a logical explanation for everything, in which they dont. I believe that we were created by God

I believe that evolution is not true because there is no possible way. Monkeys would be evolving right now. Yeah, there has been tests that have shown change in animals, but that doesnt explain where humans came from. Evolution is just a theory, but also a myth if you think about it.

Answer 6

well if people evolved several million years ago from what scientist say is monkies why have no other monkies evolved into people since. I believe people may evolved from a type of neanderthal. Have you ever read Clan of the Cave Bear. That is about as close to a non scientific understanding of the beginning of time for humans. The book is rated X so be old enough to read it.

Answer 7

It is a scientific myth!
Only man can learn high morality from the Messengers of God, and the monkey cannot. Any men can read the Holy Books to discover the truth.

Answer 8

I think that technically it's still a theory...it is true that we have definitely evolved from a less clearly defined human. But I think we were always HUMAN.

Think...if we EVOLVED from monkeys...then why are monkeys still around?

Answer 9

Evolution is as fairy tale. It is a dogmatic belief held by people who refuse to believe that they were created by God. The best idea that they can come up with, is that life just suddenly appeared, then it magically "evolved" from one celled organisms, through all the different species. Then man evolved from some sort of monkey-like creature. Does that sound believable to you?

Answer 10

I don't know how to answer that question. If we evolved from Monkies, then how did the monkies get here?
Bacteria on some star didn't create some molecular phenomenon for an entire world to just appear. Kind of silly either way you look at it.

Answer 11

Well not actually from monkeys. The ancestor was both for us and the monkeys. Monkeys are sort of like your retarded distant cousins. Monkeys are not your grandparents.
We are actually a variety of Ape. Humans can actually be genetically closer to some species of apes than to other races of humans. I know that sounds wierd but it is true.