God......Part IV?

Question

If you insist on NOT believing in God...

(yes...if you don't believe...then you DO insist)

and believe in The Theory of Evolution...
(and this is where humans evolved from monkeys)

Why are there still monkeys on earth?

Answer 1

It's WAY to early in the day to start drinking. Can you withdraw this question?

I don't believe in god. It's not because I "insist" on not believing, anymore than you "insist" on not believing in pink unicorns. It's because God never makes an appearance.

You know that to be a fact as well as I do. Yet like most believers here, you will most certainly deny it, telling whatever lies you think you need to in order to avoid admitting that your "god" doesn't exist.

It doesn't take long before your belief in "god" has led you to lie without even being aware that you're doing so, over and over again, with no effort, thought, shame, or even concern about whether or not your lies are remotely plausible.

Why would you assume that those who don't share your beliefs would simply ignore the compulsive dishonesty they have produced in you?

Answer 2

First of all I don't believe in god and I do not insist anything. It is just a belief. You are wrong on that account.

Secondly I never said I believe in evolution either. You just put that in to your question to try to prove a point. You failed.

Why is it that "IF" we did evolve from monkeys, why can't there be lazy monkeys that couldn't be bothered evolving. What makes you think that ALL monkeys have to evolve?

Answer 3

This question gets asked so often that some answerers in Religion & Science have made a drinking game of it - much like the TV show "Frasier", when Frasier, Niles and Martin all watched "Antiques Road Show" together. In the episode, every time someone said "veneer" they would all take a drink; Niles and Frasier of a fine wine, Martin of Raineer Ale. You may get some answers that say "Swig" or "Gulp" or "Thanks for the excuse to drink". That's what they mean. If you do a search on "still monkies", "still monkeys" and "still apes" you'll get roughly 2 - 3 per day since YA started.

Here is a short answer:

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.) I don't expect you to believe that, but if you try hard enough you can understand it.

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.

If you are truly curious, ask your minister to give you a short, reasoned explanation of evolution. Tell him you don't want to believe it, of course; you just want to understand it. If he says he can't because it is wrong, he is as ignorant as those monarchists I mentioned above.

Answer 4

Because we didn't evolve from monkeys. Whoever told you we did is trying to mislead you.

Humans are apes, descended from earlier apes. We didn't evolve from monkeys, but rather monkeys and apes had a common ancestor millions of years ago. Incidentally, the most obvious way to tell if something is an ape or a monkey is that monkeys have tails, and apes (such as humans) do not.

The most recent common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees was approximately 6 million years ago.

The way to understand our origins is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.

Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to reproduce).

However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.

Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.

All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.

Answer 5

Atheists believe there is no evidence for the existence of a god or gods. To an atheist he simply does not exist.

You are showing your ignorance by saying that evolution states that humans evolved from monkeys. Where did you get that idea? You don't even know the basics of evolution but you seem to think you are in a position to criticise it !!

Answer 6

Sarah, your question indicates you don't know the theory of evolution. We did not evolve from monkeys.

Answer 7

Wow, ohhh, stumper, What did your pastor tell you that one?


Seriously, Monkeys are survivors they are good at what they do, so what makes you think that they wouldn't still exist? According to that logic you would have to wonder why all animals aren't just the same animal. Obviously a flawed theory.

Answer 8

evolved from ancestors of monkeys, not an actual monkey. we took diffrent paths and cant go back. like how dogs and wolves can exist together, or lions and tigers. The monkeys that you refer to were not the same monkeys that we evolved next to either.

Answer 9

These monkeys are the unfortunate ones who did not get to become humans, How sad for them! LOL. Really, this question has been asked many times in the past. No, I don't believe in evolution. I only believe in creation.

Answer 10

because evolution wants to see the outcome of how stupid the monkey can be if nature make him walk in two feet. and answer questions in yahoo answer.