Why do people ask, If man came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?

Question

Is this the equivalent of people in the time of Galileo asking, If the Earth goes around the sun then why is the sun the one moving?



Telescopes, microscopes, jim darwin weeps.

Answer 1

Their pastor said it to them when they were little. It made perfect sense then. Since those times they've been perfectly insulated from people like you and me. Everyone they pass down the street thinks the same as they do. If one of them said to the other, "If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?", with a big knowing grin on his face, he'd get the reply, "I know! It's CRAZY isn't it?!" And they'd laugh, and then they'd go on their way. These people all looks suspiciously like each other, too.

Now they're encountering people who can actually answer that question. They always thought it was rhetorical. They had no idea it had a sensible answer understood by people who had done nothing but looked into the question in more depth. It confuses them and angers them. They had been so clever only ten minutes earlier! Now someone claims to be able to dismiss their nonsense by mentioning things like alleles and phylogeny and whatnot.

Irony is, it's closed populations in which evolution is most likely to occur (and which will result in precisely the answer to the question they keep asking!). Anyone want to offer suggestions into what they expect individual pockets of bible-belt fundies to turn into over the next million years? Anyone reckon they'll graduate to salamander?
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Answer 2

They're trying to make a point: Speciation is a lifestyle, not an accident. When a monkey decides to evolve, he's making a moral choice contrary to God's divine plan for monkeys. Most monkeys know this. Only a vicious few flout God's law, wearing their little three-piece suits, riding their tricycles, smoking cigars, proudly holding their disgusting "human" parties.

If you must weep, Jim, weep for all the poor, lost monkeys. Help them find their way back to their cages and the good graces of God.

Answer 3

They only say that because they don't like the idea of evolution, and can't think of anything better to say to justify their stance against it. As far as the way things were in the time of Galileo, he was considered a heretic and almost executed for his beliefs. He was right, but the church didn't want to believe facts. The church was (and in my opinion still is) against anything that remotely differentiates from the bible. No matter how many facts and how much evidence there is to support a new scientific theory there will always be those that are against it. Simply because it isn't written that way in the bible. I'm not against any religious points of view, however if they are all allowed to believe in what ever stories of creation they want to believe in, in peace, then anyone who wants to believe in Facts should be allowed to believe in Facts in peace as well. Without having someone shoving their religion on them. Also without having people banging on their doors at 7 in the morning!! In their cute little business suits, handing out pamphlets! (If their religion is so "awesome" and so "true" why to they need to recruit?)

Answer 4

Creationists never take the time to actually read a book other than the Bible, and so most of them firmly believe that Darwin actually claimed that "humans come from apes". They just quote each other, until the whole thing gets warped, exactly like the Bible has become warped after millennia of misquoting it.

Which clearly shows us how RETARDED these people are.

Answer 5

pretty much. Except back then you had to appear before the inquisition. Why does nobody expect the inquisition? I bet Galileo saw it coming a mile away. He even went to Rome to sort it out with the Pope. (it didn't work out)

Answer 6

Because they're idiots. Obviously they have a hard time understanding that humans & monkeys have a common ancestor but branched off in different directions somewhere down the line into entirely different species. Real hard for creationists to wrap their simple minds around.

Answer 7

I think it's tantamount to saying, "If electronics have evolved, why don't we find 8-track players at BestBuy!!??"

the real issue is that these people don't understand that evolution works on populations, not individuals. new mutations spread much faster through the entire population than the rate at which they accumulate to form new species.

Answer 8

Because the big picture of natural history cannot be seen by people who only focus on a creation myth.

Answer 9

Because they dont understand what phylogeny is.

I always just shoot back at them... If dogs came from wolves, then why are there still wolves? then if they have just a glimmer of logic and rationality... they get the point...

Answer 10

It is a common, illogical argument brought up by Creationist wanna-bee's who have not really thought it out nor read a science text.