i would like to understand why atheist believe we come from monkeys?

Question

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't,
than to live my life as if there isn't, and find out there is".I look forward to your responce.

Answer 1

We believe this because we have mountains of evidence. Anyone saying there are holes is referring to a few pebbles in the mountain of evidence. Secondly, which of the Gods do you believe in? If you are wrong about any of the other thousands of Gods, then you will be just as hopeless as everyone else. Why do you need a god anyway? Let's say you didn't believe in him for just one day. How would your life be? Would it truly be any different other than not believing in a magical unprovable being? Religious belief comes only from fear, delusion, wishful thinking, and irrationality. You don't need it to have a great meaningful life. This is my advice to you, take it or leave it.

Answer 2

Well all the atheists who actually understand evolution know that it has never once claimed we came from monkeys.

Evolution holds that we and apes had a common ancestor some 5 million years ago, and we had a common ancestor with monkeys some 50 million years ago. We are like very, very distant cousins.

You can say that apes evolved from humans and you'd be equally incorrect.

And you may find it more comforting to live your life as if there is a god, but what is comforting is not necessarily true. Comfort never equals truth. And it is certainly no reason to force your beliefs on others.

Answer 3

Pascal's wager:

"If god exists, it's infinitely better to believe, since you get heaven instead of hell for eternity. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter since you're dead anyway. So overall it's better to believe"

This is, of course, false.

Some of the problems with the argument:

* The implied assumption that god may exist (with a 50% probability, no less!)

* The assumption that there is an afterlife with a heaven and hell

* The assumption that the god cares about belief in him/her above all else

* The assumption that if you believe in a god, it will definitely be the same god that actually exists.

* The assumption that you lose nothing if it's false. You have lost a great deal, from time praying to a nonexistent entity (somebody mentioned just today praying several hours a day!!!) to morality (your god may ask you to hurt other people) and much more besides.

* The assumption that people can believe in something simply because it benefits them. Would you believe goblins exist for twenty bucks? Why not?

* The assumption that any god won't see through the "believing just to get into heaven" ploy.

For more:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/wager.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html

Answer 4

Science has proven that man and monkeys have common ancestry not that we come from monkeys however it has also been proven through DNA analysis that we share 68% of the genetic code with monkeys ;just look at the similarities.
Live your life as you choose just don't make me live a fantasy as well! Many more than Atheist believe in the truth of scientific knowledge just ask yourself if you think your television set will work as it is based on the scientific world of knowledge too.

Answer 5

we didn't some from monkey's, we came from apes! yes there is a difference.

Sciece isn't nesessarily denouncing religion, it's just says that maybe the Bible isn't 100% accurate. Maybe the general ideas are there but people couldn't understand God's full plan yet. Many scientists believe that God created the world acording to science. If you think about this it makes sence, creating a complex ecosystem that evolves is more Godly than human. It also makes sense that God's work is beyond what people can discover (even still there are many unknown things in the world).

Answer 6

some infor for you since so many people love to see the world through rose color glasses.

The word hominidae is used to describe the total member species of the human family that have lived since the last common ancestor of both man and the apes. A hominid is an individual species within that family. The field of science which studies the human fossil record is known as paleoanthropology. It is the intersection of the disciplines of paleontology (the study of ancient life forms) and anthropology (the study of humans). Each hominid name consists of a genus name (e.g. Australopithecus, Homo) which is always capitalized, and a species name (e.g. africanus, erectus) which is always in lower case.
Some controversy exists on the time of this common ancestor to both ape and human, but it is believed to be about 5.5 million years ago. A key fossil record near that time is Ramapithecus, which was believed to be an early hominid for many years, but is now considered an ancient ape that lived near the fork in our common lineage. Ramapithecus is now thought to be an ancestor of the modern apes.
From a genome viewpoint, the difference between modern man and the modern apes is quite small, about 2 percent. From a physical viewpoint, the greatest difference is in locomotion. The human walks upright. It is generally thought that this came about when the ancient hominid adopted the edge of the forest and plain and adapted to a life under the trees as opposed to in them. Fossil evidence shows that this bipedal adaptation was completed quite early, perhaps as early as four million years ago, long before we looked like or thought like we do today. Facial feature changes toward the modern appearance came much later. The facial characteristics of modern man are about 100,000 years old. The faces of earlier hominid were much more apelike.

Controversy exists over whether brain size alone shows intellectual ability, but our only measure of intellectual growth in the hominid record is brain size. The fossil evidence, except for one notable blip, shows a steady growth in brain size. This can be misleading due to the different sizes of the people. Early man (with perhaps three exceptions) was quite small and the males were much larger than the females.

From a cultural viewpoint, modern man and the other apes are quite similar in some respects. Sexual practices of modern humans are quite similar to the chimpanzee (although stoutly denied by some), but with far more homosexual activity. Although homosexual play is common among the apes, a totally homosexual ape is rare. It is estimated that about 10% of the human population is so oriented.

The modern human's trend toward family dissolution places the human only a few percentage points from that of the chimp. In fact, unlike man, a gorilla male must be physically driven away and held at bay before he will leave his family. A great ape will rarely kill another member of the same species. On the other hand, music and art are peculiarities of the human and have no counterpart in any ape society.


I guess thats the answer.. man is not like ape becasue he leaves his families..

thats it..

Answer 7

Because they have found the first fossil that is a direct descendant of man from the apes!

A quote from the site that I cited: "From the waist down the Dikika baby looked like us. One of her humanlike knees was complete with a kneecap no bigger than a dried pea. But her upper body, like Lucy's, had many apelike features. Her brain was small, her nose flat like a chimpanzee's, and her face long and projecting. Her finger bones were curved and almost as long as a chimp's. Her two complete shoulder blades, the first ever found from an australopith, were similar to those of a young gorilla—a shape that might have made it easy for her to climb. A. afarensis walked on two feet, but some scientists think this species also spent time in trees."

Why don't you start living your life for YOU and YOUR FAMILY than living your life for an idea!

Answer 8

Except by renouncing all other possibilities of divinities, and calling other religions evil and sinners and the unsaved, don't you risk angering the god that turns out to be not the one you have been praying too? (not to say that you in particular feel that way about other faiths) In my opinion, neither atheism, nor unwavering belief in one faith system makes a whole lot of sense to me. If there isn't a god, then this is all we have and should make the most of our time here by not discriminating judging and oppressing others. If there is a god, then wouldn't it make sense to have kept an open mind to all spiritual possibilities and loved and respected everyone?

Answer 9

I even have researched it, and that i'm qualified to analyze it because of the fact I actually have a Ph.D. in a organic and organic technology. Monkeys are in our direct line of descent. Our final monkey ancestor lived 21 to twenty-5 million years in the past. After that, it develop into apes each and each of how all the way down to the contemporary, and guy himself is a hominin ape. that is supported via a mountain of info from comparative anatomy, genetics, biogeography, and the fossil record. What info have you ever on your god?

Answer 10

Maybe its the ischial collosities that atheists and monkeys share. If I had those I would think I was a monkey. How about you?

Why is it so important that we have a common ancestor with the apes? Isn't it possible that all things became what they were intended to be as they evolved along their own lines? Is there any actual proof that we have a common ancestor?