Sorry ,I just had my 8 year old gd. ask me what is the name of the first thing from evolution.?

Question

You know like God named Adam and Eve.What is the name of the first Monkey we came from,or fish or what ever?Do they have names?How come we still have monkeys don't other animals evolve?How come nothing has evolved in 6000 years?
I am trying to explain why it is being taught in school as fact,when it is a while stab in the dark,guess.
Theory=a speculative plan,a conjecture guess.DICTIONARY.
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Got my defanition from,Wikipedia.
gd=Granddaughter,that would be a girl.
We share more DNA with a pig then a monkey.

Sorry definition from wikipedia,and webster.
So you are telling me that if I go to a dirrerent dictionary it will give me another meaning?
So we can just make up meaning and put them in a book as we see fit.COOL.

MOST of your exsamples are man made.
Like aids ,most virus are man made.

Thank you Fruitcake.She is in a magnet school for math and science.
We have told her,ask question.If they don't have the right answers ,keep seeking truth.

Answer 1

Your gd is very precocious. You should get her into a special school or at least advanced classes. Tell her the Bible says Adam named all the animals.And things have evolved in last 6000 years. Life forms do change but God created the first.

Answer 2

1) What is the name of the first Monkey we came from,or fish or what ever?
- Irrelevant. Evolution is about the change in species' developments, etc. To go to the very beginning look up abiogenesis.

How come we still have monkeys don't other animals evolve?
- Monkeys haven't evolved into anything yet. The very definition of Evolution is that things EVOLVE and thus what they used to be doesn't exist anymore.

How come nothing has evolved in 6000 years?
- A lot of things have. Ever head of DOGS?

I am trying to explain why it is being taught in school as fact,when it is a while stab in the dark,guess.
- It IS a fact... and a theory. The theory (how and why) supporting the fact (what). A fact is a fact when there are so many evidences supporting the hypothesis that it become a fact. Evolution has MOUNTAINS of evidence; thus, it is a fact.

Theory=a speculative plan,a conjecture guess.DICTIONARY.
- Look up SCIENTIFIC theory. It's more detailed and precise.

Answer 3

1. The first things that evolve as "life" according to Science were probably single cell organism (like bacterias)
2. According to evolution, it is not we evolved from "monkeys" as we know them. Monkeys and humans have a common ancestor. Random mutations and ecological evolution created both Monkeys and humans as we know them today.
3. Many things have involved in the last 6000 years. A good example is the Peppered Moth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

As for the evolution v. creationism debate, I think you have explain to your child that what he is learning an explanation based on science. However, science cannot explain everything. I am a Christian and have no doubt that God exists. But such a fact can never be proven by science but it is no less than a fact to me.

Answer 4

1. The scientific use of the word, 'theory',is completely different than the layman's (which is the definition you find in the dictionary). Newtonian physics, quantum physics, gravitation, relativity, and evolution are all scientific theories and are not well-described by the layman's term.
2. Evolution does NOT say we came from monkeys or apes; we're separate species that have a common ancestor.
3. Things have evolved in 6000 years -- just look at insecticide-immune mosquito species or the various e. coli experiments. Simple stuff. If you want to see dramatically new species then you just wait longer to see the adaptive changes over time (adaptive radiation).
4. Saying evolution is a stab in the dark (with all the evidence and development) is like saying Einstein's work with relativity (and subsequent contributions to quantum physics) are stabs in the dark. If you understood those, you'd be very disturbed by their implications as well.

Answer 5

The first thing that evolved would a a "cell"...a very simple organism at first.

BTW: You're wrong about nothing having evolved in the last 6000 years. Here are some examples of speciation that has happened within human memory:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html

And for the millionth time: We did not evolve from monkeys: We and monkeys evolved from an ape-like ancestor. We changed one way, they changed another.

And no, it is not a stab in the dark or a guess. It has never been a guess. A theory is a tested hypothisis, one that has passed testing over and over again. The ToE makes predictions that can be tested, and has mounbds of physical evidence (genetic arcs, tracable traits, a fossil record, etc...)

Answer 6

Actually, a lot has evolved within 6000 years.

For the most frequent, and pressing issue, influenza. Remeber that bird flu scare [I assume you're from the States], that was a fear of something evolving.

Yes, every species that has been found to have existed at some point has a name.

We have monkey's because they are they are modern animals. They did not exist a long time ago, just sometihng like humans and monkeys.

Theory in science is very different from what you are thinking. The dictionaty is for english, not science.

Answer 7

1. You dont get it. Evolution takes MILLIONS of years for most effects to be seen. Over 6000 years the effects are mostly not noticeable.

2. Humans AND monkeys evolved from a common ancestor species. Other animals evolved from THEIR common ancestor species.

3. Theory: the branch of a science or art that deals with its principles or methods, as distinguished from its practice: Music theory. Gravitational theory.

4. In order to have names, you have to have a namer. Since only humans can write, and since we don't undertand animal languages, the only names WE know of are the ones WE give. Ok hon?

I'm sorry, who was the 8 year old again?

Answer 8

Stephen Jay Gould
"In the American vernacular, "theory" often means "imperfect fact"—part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus creationists can (and do) argue: evolution is "only" a theory, and intense debate now rages about many aspects of the theory. If evolution is less than a fact, and scientists can't even make up their minds about the theory, then what confidence can we have in it? Indeed, President Reagan echoed this argument before an evangelical group in Dallas when he said (in what I devoutly hope was campaign rhetoric): "Well, it is a theory. It is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science—that is, not believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was."

Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered.

Moreover, "fact" does not mean "absolute certainty." The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are not about the empirical world. Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms"

We haven't found a lot of fossils of the very earliest life but here are some tips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea

Here's hominid evolution:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html

Purgatorius = Oldest known primate-like mammal

modern monkeys evolved from earlier primates. But sometimes animals stay the same for a long time. Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years.

Answer 9

ok you tell him we dont know the names, we evolved from a common ancestor creatures, not monkeys and human and monkeys two entirely different species, and that evolution takes alot longer than 6000 years it may take 150000 years to see species evolve and . you can also explain if religious the 6000 year old theory is periods of time, if you try to convince children of proven facts arent really true and that the teacher is lying it may come back to haunt you as the child starts scientifically examinine faith.

Answer 10

Perhaps flying bird men and serpents that dance in fire make more sense to you. Theory's are based off of facts it's a hell of a lot closer than an old outdated book by thousands of years.

Don't worry when your gd grows up and learns evolution she can teach you it. What crappy dictionary did you get that definition from your head? I didn't think people could lose wisdom with age?