Evolution?

Question

If evolution is "supposidly" true then where are the monkeys still turning into humans?

Answer 1

Good question! you would think they would still be around if evolution was true and existed.

Answer 2

You misunderstand evolution. Humans did not evolve from monkeys, humans and monkeys share a common ancestor.

Think of it like a family tree--humans and monkeys share the same great grandma....You and your cousins have the same great grandma, yet you do not have the same parents. This is like evolution. Humans did not evolve directly from the same monkeys we have around today, but rather from some ancient monkey....the great-grandmother monkey.

The evidence for evolution is overwhelming, one just has to be open minded enough to hear it.

Answer 3

Monkeys never turned into humans. But primates do have common ancestry. For heaven's sake, read a little, so you at least know what you are talking about! Here's a good place to start. You don't have to agree with anything, but at least you should know what the other side actually claims before entering into a debate! Otherwise you end up showing your ignorance by referring to wierd ideas like monkeys turning into humans, which no biologist in history has ever claimed!

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

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Answer 4

It doesn't work that way. Our common ancestor is dead and monkeys are a different branch of the tree. Evolution doesn't have a target species. No other species should be able to be human, even chimps who are close. Likewise, humans are already being observed to evolve. Now that we can track changes in DNA we can watch subtle but permanent changes in humans. This is being done.

Answer 5

You're scaring me.. our educational system today is totally failing you.
Please study evolution, and if you aren't going to learn how to spell, then use that pretty little Check Spelling feature at the top right hand corner of the text box next time.
Evolution does not state that monkeys turn into humans.. not ANYWHERE.
Evolution takes place over millions of years.
and, that ends the amount of time I'm going to spend teaching you what you should already know by now.
*drink*

Answer 6

Ah yes, my tax dollars hard at work in the public school system I see....

So, there is a fork in the road, right? And so the road diverges in two different directions.....how exactly do you expect to ever get to the same place on two different roads? Same thing with the whole "monkey business" youve got going on here. Common ancestor, road diverges, one road leads to man, the other to monkeys. Understand now, little girl?

Answer 7

This type of question demonstrates a clear lack of education on the topic of evolution, which I feel is an injustice to our school children.

One species does not just turn into another en masse. New species develop out of existing ones. This does not mean the existing species ceases to be viable.

Answer 8

In some cases it would appear that evolution is moving in reverse. For example, imagine a country with universal education, supplied free of charge. Now, imagine someone who can't figure out the purpose of quotation marks or the spelling of "supposedly."

Frightening, isn't it?

Add to this, the shocking absence of any scientific sense and you have the state of education at present.

What do they teach them in these schools?

Answer 9

Who says a monkey should or could turn into a human? No one so get lost.

Answer 10

*drink* Mmmmm, ahhhhhh.

Nowhere. The theories of evolution do not say that this should be happening. (Are you sure you have the right forum? This is Religion and Spirituality, not Biology.)

Evolution is not goal-oriented. Your religion may consider humans the object of creation, but this idea has no place in science.

Answer 11

Just because you don't understand something doesn't make it untrue. Evolution is a proven fact and NO monkeys don't turn into humans. Read a book or something.