Isn't evolution disproven by there still being monkeys?

Question

Evolution claims that we evolved from particles into fish into monkeys into people by complete random chance. However, if we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys all over the place?

And before you say that only some of the monkeys evolved: there's no apparent reason why some monkeys would evolve into humans while all the rest didn't; if some of the monkeys knew it would be a good idea to be people, then the rest should have known too! Plus it doesn't make sense that a bunch of monkeys would just stop evolving for thousands of years while the rest evolved tons to become people! Face it, evolutionists, the facts just don't add up.

Plus, think about the fact that evolution claims fish evolved into monkeys. If that's true, then why are there still fish?! Plus, it claims that particles evolved into fish. If that's true, then why are there still particles?! None of this makes sense. You evolutionists should be ashamed.

Diane M: Are you saying that I evolved from my brother?! More examples of the absurdities evolutionists will resort to to protect their sacred cow.

I think many of the other posters, on the other hand, made excellent points. For example, I agree with Lt. Dan that people who misspell their comments are wrong, and with green that if we had evolved, we would have evolved into a new species by now, like a bird. Why aren't we birds by now, evoLIEtionists?!

charmedchiclet, you claim that evolution isn't a "straight line"; but if evolution isn't straight, wouldn't all life have gone extinct by now, since gay animals don't reproduce? Typical of you evilutionists to try to promote your liberal gay agenda at the same time as your atheistic pseudoscience.

If God wanted us to evolve, he would have evolved us all at once, immediately, when he created us; why would God need time to get life to where he wanted it to be? That's as silly as claiming that God would need to spend more than a day creating the universe, when he could do it all at once!

Answer 1

Consider this - although we are all humans, there are different races in the world. Africans have dark skin for a reason - it protects their skin from harmful sunlight . Africans without the skin pigmentation, of whom there are many, suffer badly from skin cancers because they do not have skin pigmentation. People have evolved these differences to cope with their different climates.

Answer 2

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Sorry, had to get that out.

Evolution does not say that humans evolved from monkeys. It says that humans and apes had a common ancestor. You might just as well ask, if my brother and I both came from my parents, why is my brother still alive?

Side note: This is right up there with the "the second law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution" argument. Any time anyone makes one of those arguments, I cringe. Both are flawed in the same way - it indicates that the person making the argument doesn't really understand evolution or the laws of thermodynamics, and it reinforces the stereotype that Christians are basically scientifically illiterate. Please - before you make an argument like this again, study biology. Study physics. Learn what, for instance, the word "entropy" means before you try to use it in an argument. It'll do wonders for my continuing alleged sanity.

Edit: *sigh* It's called an "analogy". That's why I said "you might just as well say". I suppose I'm asking too much for you to figure that out, though.

And I apologize for the insulting tone of the edit, but I've already screamed once in this answer. You have no idea how frustrating it is to see Christians make fundamental errors in science, thereby giving weight to the presumption that we're all blind morons.

Answer 3

sure, and do not the Darwinists hate that answer. until eventually about 1975 it became all about the monkeys and apes. yet because that became debunked about 1000 cases then they change solutions and make contact with us stupid, flow parent only who's being stupid. truthfully, Darwin used monkeys and apes as an party to attempt to coach evolution. And truthfully some human beings can in reality look on the the following and now and one way or the different have self belief that each and each one can properly be defined by technique of a concept. The human animal is so gullible and so self-based to have self belief that we are able to look again thousands of thousands of years and parent out all that has got here about. completely absurd. we gained't even look again some hundred years without putting conclusions. And the concept of evolution dismisses all such truly some unknown factors. Inbreeding, catastrophic activities, organic extinction, climate, and truthfully the concept that a excellent being perhaps in contact. If one dismisses each and each of the variables then one look again, as through a telescope, backwards, and see regardless of the truth that it truly is they prefer to make certain. it continuously became and continuously will be about the "lacking link", that isn't stumbled on because there is no longer one.

Answer 4

Because they evolved from our common ancestor too. We humans got smarter. The great apes, including chimpanzees, got stronger. They are stronger than us humans. (A 180-pound chimp would wipe the floor with a 180-pound human, even a college wrestler.)

Here is a little something extra for you, what the Cajuns call "lagniappe", like the free cookie the baker gives the kids when Mom buys a big birthday cake:

Back in 1776, monarchists (Monarchists are people who want to be ruled by a king or queen, not butterfly fanciers.) 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. 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. One night on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show, Gilda Radner argued vehemently against the "Deaf Penalty", instead of the "Death Penalty". She looked absurd 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.

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 above.

Answer 5

Your arguments are not difficult to answer, but you may be prone to shutting out any replies due to your predisposed wish to disbelieve evolution.

Evolution of species is not a straight line, but a series of branchings off and extinctions. For example, one species of fish can split off into two slightly different ones (for example one species can evolve to live in low-oxygen ponds, the other in high-oxygen running water). Each of these new species can continue to split off depending on mutations and new environmental conditions. The original species of fish that was the progenitor of all the others can go extinct, as well as any other intermediate species. For the same reason, all modern bacteria (particles?) are equally evolved as all other species, although their physiology retains its ancient properties.

This means that humans and monkeys did not evolve from one another, but are contemporary species-- both are equally evolved because we are both currently living. The theory of human evolution is that we evolved from an extinct primate (ape) that had split off to create both the contemporary apes and modern humans, as well as various extinct species of apes and proto-humans.

If you are seriously interested in evolution, it's an amazingly complex and robust study that you need an excellent background in genetics and population statistics to truly understand. This is college-level work. You're unlikely to reach any educated conclusions by limiting yourself to grade-school arguments or simplistic creationist retorts, though I've found it's a good place to begin to develop a real interest in biodiversity and paleo-anthropology.

Answer 6

All levels of evolution are still occurring. amoeba are still evolving into multicellular organisms. Everything is still evolving. It doesn't stop after it happens once. It's a chance occurance in DNA and that will continue to happen as long as anything reproduces. Or is DNA made up too in your little world?

Answer 7

the only flaw in your theory is you're assuming 'particles' turned into fish just once. Things could be constantly evolving. In the amount of time it took you to write your question something probably evolved in some small way...

So to answer your question.. the existence of monkeys doesn't disprove anything. We didn't necessarily evolve from the same monkeys you see today.. the monkey you see today may have evolved from rats... you get the idea....

Answer 8

This is a long and drawn out topic that goes on and on in here. Go to YA Resolved Questions and you will have days and days of reading to do. No matter what someone says on either side of the coin, there is always someone that "knows" the answer. I believe in God, and for every answer I get there is another that will dispute it, so maybe you will find what you want in the Resolved Answers. I am NOT tired of Defending God, BUT if someone has their mind made up about something, no matter what you say it will be wrong to them.

Answer 9

look, it's would be quite funny, and we would all have a good laugh, except the problem is that some people will read this and they will take heart in the (perceived) fact that SOMEONE ELSE thinks just like they do... and as long as there is ONE OTHER PERSON who understands that monkeys disprove evolution, then it is okay and scientifically plausible to continue being a christian. you're playing with fire. that one guy is going to go tell his friends that the verdict is still out, and they'll tell their friends, and so on and so on. they'll all go to church and tell god they were sorry they ever doubted Him.

Answer 10

evolution ranks right up there with creation. There is NO smoking gun to either theory to prove that one is more right than the other. Creation is based on faith and evolution is based on scientific theories. None of which to this day has been proven unequivocally to be sound. Maybe someday but not today.