If evolution was right, why are Baboons and Monkeys still around?

Question

If anybody knows a colony of Baboons that have started wearing clothes, going to school building homes recently let me know lol.

Answer 1

This is a common question from the creationists and it makes no sense at all. Modern day apes descended from their early ancestors traced back to a hominid species dating over 2.7 to 4 m.y.a.

Modern man belongs to the genus Homo, which is a subgroup in the family of hominids. What evolved into Homo was likely the genus Australopithecus (once called "man-ape"), which includes the famed 3.2 million-year-old "Lucy" fossil found three decades ago.

The whole human family tree, being able to connect the branches is the life work of anthropoligists and other scientists. The great apes are man's closest cousins, they developed off the main family of hominids over 4 m.y.a.

To say that modern man descended from present day monkeys and apes is as ludicrous as saying "horses descended from zebras, so why are the zebras still around...?"

Answer 2

Um well if you are someone who abides by the bible (and you may or may not be), if god made cats and tigers are the evolved form of cats why are cats stil around? Why are dogs still around when wolves and dingos and african wild dogs exist? Huh? Why are aligators still around when there are caimen? Why anything, why are you a bafoon for posting this? Because chanced are you know nothing about evolution except that you do not believe in it. We are all entitiled to our belives, I believe the more then anyone. But instead of you being high and mighty about it, possible could you have asked.... "i dont believe in evolution and Im confused about something... cause someone tell me how monkeys still exist..etc" You didn't have to be so regal and superior about it like you know something we dont. And just a little tip sweet heart.... we came from monkeys... those are our closest ancestors, not baboons. (the family is the same yes, but hell cats and dogs are in the same family too so just think about that.)

Answer 3

Wow, very original.

Imagine a bunch of horse-like animals on the plains. Some are born with slightly longer necks and they get food from higher up on the trees. Eventually a sub-herd that is isolated from the main herd for a few hundred generations, becomes giraffes. Now... does every single freaking horse on the plains have to become a giraffe? Or might some horses remain the way they are to fill the niche they have been filling?

Plus, humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, they are our cousins, not our grandfathers.

Answer 4

Evolution said that humans evolved from lower species to become what they are. They did not go from monkey one day to human the next day, there were a lot of stages inbetween. That does not mean that lower forms, such as all kinds of primates would disappear as soon as humans come into the world. Sorry but the world was not created in 7 days, or whatever, it was created over millions of years and each change from amoeba to human took time, a long time. Consider the bones, or rather fossils found of dinasours and other extinct species.

Answer 5

Because they evolved too. The great apes, including chimpanzees, are stronger than us humans. (A 180-pound chimp would wipe the floor with a 180-pound NCAA wrestler.) The others are smaller and more nimble that we are. (Watch a gibbon swinging through the trees, but don't try to imitate him, unless you have an affinity for broken bones.)

Here is a little something extra for you:

Back in 1776, monarchists argued against democracy as a form of government. They said it was absurd to believe that "All men are created equal" because anyone could see men came in different heights, weights and colors. Women did too. Case closed.

My point is not about democracy. It is about debate. Before you argue about something, you should understand it. If you don't understand it, you'll look foolish. Gilda Radner, on the original "Saturday Night Live" TV Show, used to do a sketch every couple of weeks in which she made completely ridiculous arguments. One night she argued vehemently against the "Deaf Penalty", instead of the "Death Penalty". She looked absurd, which was the point, and we all laughed until the beer came out our noses, which was what she wanted. You don't want people to laugh at you.

In a serious debate, you should understand the other side. Note that I didn't say "Believe". Understanding is not the same as believing. If you were to study 20th century European Political history, you would have to understand several forms of government: communism (the USSR), fascism (Germany, Italy), socialism (Lots of countries), socialist democracy, capitalistic democracy and constitutional monarchy. You would not believe in all of them; you could not believe in all of them at once. If you tried, your head would explode. You would, however, have to understand their basic concepts.

If you were to study comparative religion, you would have to understand what Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Taoists and Confucians believe. You would not have to convert to a new religion every week, but you would have to understand the other ones. You would not get very far in your studies if you dismissed all the other ones as "wrong". They believe their path is the right one just as strongly as you believe your path is the right one.

99% of the biologists alive today believe that species evolve, and that the theory of evolution is the best explanation we have for the diversity of life. Christian biologists, Jewish biologists, Muslim biologists, Hindu biologists, Buddhist biologists; Australian, Bolivian and Chinese biologists; 99% of them believe it is the best explanation. Yes, it is only a theory. Planetary motion - the theory that the earth went around the sun, not vice versa - was only a theory for a long time. Some people still don't believe it. Their eyes tell them differently.

Species don't evolve at the same rate and they don't all have to evolve. Alligators, to take one example, haven't changed much for 40 million years. The ones that were 50 feet long have become extinct, but the normal 14-footers are still there in the swamps, hoping men don't shoot them to use their hides for shoes. They didn't have to worry about that 3 million years ago. We humans are at the top of the heap today, either because we evolved or God liked us better than He did the alligators. Either way, we can make tools better than any other species.

Your question has been answered, hundreds of times, by people more versed in biology than I. It gets answered ever week here at YA.

If you are truly curious, ask your minister to give you a short, reasoned explanation of evolution. If he says he can't because it is wrong, he is as ignorant as those monarchists I mentioned in my opening paragraph.

Answer 6

OK let me explain this. Different species have different niches, a niche means the food, habitat and role that the species plays in its ecosystem. When apes and monkeys and later humans and other apes split of from each other, each group found its own niche and evolved to fit into it. For example most humans don't spend their entire lives in the tops of trees eating fruit, but there are many species of monkey that do this.

Oh and Ethan J, everything is still evolving, including humans.
(There are many other reasons, but this one is the easiest to explain.)

Answer 7

I hit on a better anti-evolution argument. If evolution is true why is it that people who cannot understand the theory they are trying to refute haven't died out yet?

Might as well ask "if creationism were true why do baboons have blue arses".

Answer 8

You really ought to get a decent education that is not polluted with the bias of idiots.

The worship of ignorance is not much of a religion.

Answer 9

If you cross a horse with a donkey you get a mule. There are still horses and donkeys.

Answer 10

beats me But i bet they are smarter than some ppl I know