Do YOU think man evolved from monkeys?

Question

i am a christian, and have VERY strong belief.
im just wondering how many people really do think that man evolved from monkeys, do YOU?

or apes, either one....

Answer 1

Evolution takes as much, or more faith to believe than religion. because Their is more evidence to suggest the bible to be true than evolution.

think of all the archeological finding to suggest the bible to be true than the few bones that was found and put together as a puzzle to form a scull or two.

Answer 2

Depends on where you draw the line. The further you go back, the more species are descended from the same ancestors as humans, until you come to the one ancestor ALL life on Earth is descended from. If you want to read a book which describes this very nicely, get "The ancestor's tale" by Richard Dawkins (who may be a bit of an overexcitable, sarcastic Brit when it comes to religion, but really is a brilliant writer when it comes to evolution). *** "We all evolved from a common ancestor. About 14 million years ago (not sure if that's exactly correct) there was 1 type of 'monkey'. As Pangaea split into multiple Continents the 1 species of 'monkey' was separated into different terrains." That would be allopatric evolution. But... pangaea broke up a little longer than 14 million years ago. Continental drift isn't THAT fast.

Answer 3

"Evolved from monkeys" is not an accurate description but yes, homo sapiens are one of the great apes. Our nearest living relatives are chimpanzees. We share a common ancestry with all mammals that are alive today, less so with all vertebrates, less so with all animals. There's an incredible amount of evidence for this. It's not a question of believing. It's simply a matter of being both intelligent enough and educated enough to be aware of it. The choice is not between evolution and some other idea. The choice is between understanding evolution or remaining ignorant.

Answer 4

It is very sad to me, as a Biology major, that people in this country do not understand that evolution is not just something someone made up on a whim. It is a scientific theory, which means that it can be observed and has never been disproven. Why don't you take an Evolution course somewhere, and maybe it will make more sense. It's a shame that the education systems doesn't teach people what evolution really is. Learn about it, educate yourself, you will be better for it.

Answer 5

evolution has been proven over and over again.. yes i believe we evolved from chimps, who evolved from something else, which evolved from something else etc.. god is just a dillusion created by mankind to help explain life, and why we are here, and how we got here, and whats going to happen after. Religion has served its purpose in humanity. Now science has helped us understand, and will eventually render religion obsolete.

Its time for all you religious people (by that i mean organised religion) to grow some common sense. I'm not saying god doesn't exist... there is no way to prove that. I'm saying god didn't create life, god didn't create the earth. If you believe in a god.. you should make up your own mind on what you think god is, because its YOUR belief, and every persons belief is going to be different.

(you can probably guess, i'm atheist)



(Correction- i believe we evolved from the same ancestors as chimps, not the modern day chimps)

Answer 6

I don't think that we evolved from monkeys. I think that we evolved from APES! A chimpanzee is an ape. I surely don't believe that man just appeared out of thin air!

Answer 7

Yes! There is ever so much more evidence supporting that (I believe) FACT than the creationist and intelligent design mumbo-jumbo...
(This is an edit: I was being careless when I took "monkeys" to mean monkeys, apes, the whole gamut of our ancestors - both close and distant.)

Answer 8

Man and apes share over 95% of our DNA. I believe that apes are a distant relative that evolved along a similar route. But are they our ancestors, I don't think so.

Answer 9

The theory of evolution does not say that man evolved FROM monkeys. It says that humans and monkeys evolved alongside each other--from the same sources. (Part branched off and became simians, and part branched off and became humans.) We have a common ancestor.

Answer 10

No.
I understand that the best scientific evidence points to all primates, humans included, having descended from a common ancestor, which would have been an ape, not a monkey.

Answer 11

I'm Japanese, so you may see me as an atheist. (And as a poor English speaker. When I'm impolite in the followings, I'm sorry.) In Japan, most (educated) people think the human evolved as a member of primates. One reason for the tolerance for the evolutionary theory is that Japan is the only developed country where non-human primates live.

I think humans have the common ancestor with the other primates. Please let me use a word, "primate" because a "monkey" can't refer to any apes (e.g., chimpanzees).

I think anyone who think about the the human evolution from the ancestral primates should distinguish between the extant non-human primates and the (extinct) ancestral non-human primates. As you consider the human different from its ancestral primates, the extant non-human primates is different from ancestral primates. That is, you can't say we, Homo sapiens, evolved from primates just like the extant species of primates; more appropriately, we share the common ancestor with the other non-human primates; although that ancestor was much more similar to the extant non-human primates than the humans.

According the cognitive archaeology, in the process of the human evolution from our ancestral primates, Homo sapiens came to have a religious belief. A biologist or psychologist wouldn't hold non-human primates in contempt just because they don't have any religion, but they would admit tha fact that the humans is the only species who have religion, piousness.

How many times did you see monkeys, apes, or other animals? Scientist are changing gradually their point of view concerning "animal ntelligence." To put it an extreme way, in the past, when they design a test to estimate animal intelligence, scientists didn't take into consideration the ecology (wild environment) of the given species. Now animal psychologists can never perform any experiments without considering the animal species' ecological validity. For example, it is irrational to test a hand-operated task on birds. As humans adapt to the religious world, non-human animals adapt to the non-religious world. In the biological way, it is wrong to despise non-human animals for their lack of religious beliefs. Of course, this doesn't prevent the respect for piety. Eagles exceed humans in the number and kinds of photoreceptor cells in the retina, so they have better sight than humans in resolution and color. Ants have more complete society than humans. Chimpanzees are better at instantaneous memorization than humans. Pigeons solves a kind of problem more quickly than humans. I'd like you to think relatively about animal intelligence.

In summary, I conclude some points. (1) Distinction between ancestors and extant primates: the monkeys your'are looking at now aren't your ancestor; we and the monkeys are siblings. (2) Relative way of thinking concerning animal intelligence: the respect for adaptive intelligence of all the species of animals wouldn't contradict the humans' religious beliefs. If people don't understand the relationship between humans and animals (above (1)) or don't think of the intelligence of animals from the appropriate viewpoint (above (2)), I think it's useless to declare that s/he is a supporter of the evolutionary theory.

Anyhow, I hope you would see a monkey.