Your Uncle Wasn't A Monkey... Read and Learn...?

Question

How many times must a fundie be hit over the head with facts before they relinquish their hold on fairy tale? I know, now the commercial is stuck in my head too. ("Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" "Hmm, let's find out... One... Two... Three... Crack! Three.")

Please pay attention, and keep hands and feet in the vehicle at all times:


WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM MONKEYS.


Anyone need me to repeat that?

Evolution, for the record, does NOT state that we are descended from monkeys. I don't know what rock you claim to have found this "fact" under, but it is patently false. Evolution does state that we, as are most primates, descended from a common ancestor. If one is to take an objective, hard look at the fossil record and archeological sites and records, man's history throughout the ages has never been a simple...

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http://jthughes.blogspot.com/2006/10/no-your-uncle-wasnt-monkey.html

Anger? Seriously?

No wonder they say sarcasm is a lost art...

Now, a common argument is that "there are huge gaps in the fossil record that cannot be explained by science." A semi-valid point. Do you know how many conditions need to be in place for something to fosilize or mummify? Of course not everything is going to leave behind a nicely preserved skeleton or impression, and living things, when they die, typically decay. The fact that we can even find as many fossils and artifacts as we have is amazing in and of itself! But when one looks at the evidence, there is little wiggle room for not holding to evolution, as it is our best working model that can be tested, retested, measured, and recorded. So-called "missing links" are everywhere if you know how the dots are connected, but I'll digress for the time being (unless some of you really feel the need to push the issue... and I know some of you will...) Simply because all the supposed "gaps" haven't been filled is no reason to claim "It must be God! It must be God! Evolution is bunk!"

Believe it or not, just because you haven't yet figured out the answer to something is in no way a road to attributing it to something supernatural. Lack of evidence in no way equals concrete evidence for the workings of a god--it simply means we need to keep looking, and if it leads to concrete proof in a god (i.e., not faith, but facts), than you may have something...

Answer 1

True, we did not come from monkeys, but they are our "Uncles". You are not descended from your uncle. However, you and your uncle have a common ancestor. The same holds true of monkeys. They are our great-great-great-(etc)-great uncles.

Answer 2

I have read material from numerous evolutionists who admit that the fossil record doesn't do their argument any favours. Note comment by renown evolutionist Stephen J. Gould "new species almost always appear in the fossil record with no intermediate links to ancestors in older rocks of the same region. Dr. Gould concedes that the lack of fossil evidence remains the trade secret of paleontology. Furthermore the extreme rarity of transitional forms persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils...Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth...In any local area a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and fully formed". Stephen J. Gould Evolutions eratic pace Natural history may 1977 p12-p14 I could add many such quotes from other leading evolutionists. Now listen to the words of Thomas Huxley " If it could be shown that this fact (gaps between widely distinct groups) had always existed, the fact would be fatal to the doctrine of evolution". Thomas Huxley in three lectures on evolution (1882), 619, from Bird I, p. 59 In principles of paleontology, Dr. david Raup who was th curator of geology at the field museum of natural history and professor of Geology at the Univercity of Chicago noted " unfortunately the origins of most higher categories are shrouded in mystery: commonkly new categories appear in the fossil record without evidence of transitional forms". Princples of Paleontology p. 372. Again I could site many such instances which show why some people like to use thier minds and question the hype commonly known as evolution. This question is not about presenting evidence for God, please don't divert the topic. I am only pointing out the problems in your theory. Not dreampt up by myself but buy evoltutionists.

Answer 3

Definitely don't keep this to yourself. It's good that you told your best friend. If there is anyone you know that is an adult (teacher, parent, relative) that you are really close friends with or you can trust with anything, tell them. The sooner an adult knows about what is going on, the sooner it will be solved. You don't have to tell any details or anything. Don't worry about his baseball career. He is the one who decided to do wrong and should pay for it. I'm sorry that that had to happen to you. I hope that helps.

Answer 4

No, but my uncle WAS a monster.

Cookie anyone?


(The religious will make up absolute lies to try and make themselves sound correct. It seems the great majority are liars going to hell. A common conversation:

"Everything that is bad Satan does. Everything that is good God does."

"So, you're saying that God never told Lot to rape his daughters or commanded extensive animal sacrifices or asked a father to kill his son? That was all Satan?"

"No, that was God. He was testing their faith."

"How do you know he wouldn't ask you to do something terrible to prove your faith?"

"Only Satan would do that."

"But you just told me that God himself did it."

"God is all-knowing and all-loving. Man is neither of these things. God must test man's faith in him."

"Why? If he knows and loves everything, why not create a halcyon paradise and have everyone love eachother?

"To test man's faith."

"Why would an all-knowing, all-loving God NEED to test man's faith? Isn't that awfully narcissistic? Why wouldn't God just show himself?"

"There are signs. God works in mysterious ways."

Yes, indeedy. God certainly does work in mysterious ways: when one can no longer answer a question with any semblance of logic or reality God starts getting all mysterious, doesn't he? What an enigma.

Answer 5

Oh, I know. I know we didn't evolve from monkeys. I just wonder, as you obviously do, why Christians keep trying to knock down this straw man. It's NOT a real argument against evolution to say "I ain't no monkey person" since evolution has never suggested anything of the sort.

Answer 6

It's no use, they are quite happy to remain ignorant on the subject. Their god makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside and anything that threatens their obviously feeble faith is to be ignored so they don't risk losing that feeling.

Answer 7

I agree with you
but, lets say that we are from monkeys
where did the monkey come from..... etc etc etc
at the end you will prove to yourself that there is a god :d

Answer 8

No matter how you complicate things, evolutionists still think that we all came from primates. whether you like it or not, the fossil records will never show your precious missing link for there is none. So stop being offended and face the truth that evolution is nothing but an illusion, a deceit, something that people cling on in order to not obey God.


wasabi

Answer 9

The deeper error is that the nonsense creationist objection is tantamount to asking, "If children descended from adults, why are there still adults?"

Answer 10

Do you know how many evolutionists use that same 'monkey' idea here? That misconception is clearly not limited to Thiests.