If people came from monkeys, who did monkeys come from???

Question

And so and on and on and we get to some little atom... Now will such a difficult human body come from an atom???

And tell me if I leave an old car from 1970s in my garage, will it ever evolve to a Mercedes Benz???

And why don't monkeys continue evolving and why don't humans continue evolving too???

PS I am a Muslim but I think most Christians are on my side of this argument

Answer 1

Theory of evolution = science fiction.

Answer 2

Humans and monkeys do continue to evolve and adapt.

They have a common ancestor - but it wasn't a monkey, at least not what you think of as a monkey today. That's why there are still monkeys even after humans evolved into the form you see today. It's also why 'the missing link' has never been found.

Everyone is looking for transitional fossils showing a monkey/man hybrid. Even if there was a perfectly preserved fossil record going back thousands of years - the evolution of mankind goes back hundreds of thousands of years. We occasionally get a little glimpse into the past when we happen upon some bones and random pieces of pottery, etc. - but these are all considerably more recent.

The only thing your car will do is evolve into is a pile of rust. It does not have the genetic code necessary to evolve or adapt.

Answer 3

Let me attempt to penetrate the depths of your ignorance.

Individuals do not evolve. Evolution is a change that takes place from one generation to the next. It is possible because there is genetic variation between members of a generation and between an individual and its parents.

So no, your old car will not change into a different car. But if your car could reproduce similar (but not identical) cars and there was some force in place that favored or disfavored individual in each generation to the extent that some survived to reproduce and others did not then the car "species" would evolve. For example if reproduction was dependent on being purchased by a consumer right now this car species might be under pressure to evolve better fuel efficiency so individuals that were lighter or processed fuel more efficiently would be favored and heavy, inefficient individuals would be disfavored. If that pressure was strong enough and lasted long enough the species as a whole would become more efficient.

Human beings did not evolve from monkeys, but both evolved from common ancestors.

And evolution is occurring every day albeit at very different rates. If a species is very well adapted to its environment and that environment remains stable evolution slows down. When the environment changes evolution must speed up. For example if 90% of a population could survive to reproduce the rate of change would be relatively slow but if only 10% of a population could survive to reproduce (because of a genetic advantage, such as size) then the rate of change would be very rapid.

Not that I expect your mind is particularly open to any learning, but perhaps another reader will benefit from this explanation.

Answer 4

Actually the very first element of life would've been the smallest unit of DNA possible - which is pretty simple on it's own merit. Which, yes, would've come from atoms - that's pretty well academic since everything is made up of individual particles.

The car question is too idiotic to be dignified with an answer.

Monkeys and humans do continue evolving, on a scale of millions of years. Which is why changes in human skull shape and skeletal formation can be seen in the current historical record. It's also why we're naturally immune to illnesses that would have eradicated us in millennia past, and why we're vulnerable to new conditions bought about by our increasing complexity as organisms.

FYI, if the human body was designed then the designer was drunk at the drawing board. for instance, why is the optic nerve in the center of your eye's field of vision? The brain has to repair the image 'in software' in order to prevent the your view from being dominated by a large dark area right in the middle. That, is a rubbish design.

Answer 5

Since when did your car become a living organism?

We don't come from monkeys. We evolved from a common ancestor.. monkeys continue to evolve and so do humans. There was a recent article in the news about monkeys finding ways to make tools .. obviously they are evolving.

Why is your religion playing a part in science?
If you actually studied evolution, perhaps you'd get a better grasp on it and be able to actually ask an intelligent question.

Normally, this would be a drinking game question, but you threw the car in and I just can't dignify it with a drink.

Answer 6

Science cannot yet explain where the initial "spark" of life came from - and I am willing to accept that it came from some divine creative force.

However, I do believe evolution. Single-celled organisms in the sea became multicellular organisms, then things like jellyfish, then fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then birds and mammals. Some stayed the way they were, some evolved into other creatures. Everything on the planet is STILL evolving - but humans have only been around for about 100,000 years, and recorded history is even less than that, and in evolutionary terms that is not enough time to notice any changes. Evolution doesn't just "stop".

And your car won't evolve because it isn't a living thing capable of reproduction.

Answer 7

We are evolving, and so are monkeys. It is just very, very slow.
There is proof for evolution, lots of it, put you are so afraid to admit that you are wring you will just not take any notice.

By the way, we not not actually come from the monkeys of today. We simply share a common ancestor, which is very similar to a modern ape, but not quite the same. Monkeys are very similar to that common ancestor because they have found a form that suits their environment so well that Monkeys with a small positive mutation do not have a big enough advantage to spread their genes through the entire population.

Answer 8

If you examine all the species and way their bodies grow from conception to adult, you can understand why this theroy is correct. You have to take little steps to understand the workings of the human body. Cars don't evolve, they are not alive. "Monkeys" and Humans will still continue to evolve but the changes are so small that you have to look at the grand scale of everything to really notice a change. Just like you can't sit and watch a twig grow to be a redwood but you know it will.

Answer 9

Evolution is a tricky subject, mamels that monkeys evolved from were about at the time of the dinosaurs, millons of years ago. Monkeys and humans are still evolving its just that the rate of change is very slow and we dont notice it.

No your car will never evolve into a Merc.

Answer 10

The Human Body is a multicellular organism capable of independant movement. Each cell is made up of millions of atoms, each atom has seperate componets ie: the nucleus.
Humans appeared in their ancestral form approximately 2 million years ago just after the Cainozoic era and are a member of the Great ape fa,ily includin chimpanzees, benobos, gorilla`s and oranutangs. Monkeys are a seperate species but we have a common ancestor. Mammals first appeared approximately 62 million years ago but were (before then) nothing much more than tree dwelling sub species of warm blooded vertibrates. Before them were terrestrial vertibrates approximately 350 million years ago, before them the first animals with hard skeletons of the Cambrian period, before them first cells with nuclei approximately 1,900 million years ago and before that the first deposits indicating life are about 3,500 million years ago.
The origin of the Earth is approximately 4,600 million years old.And as for a car evolving, the only thing it will evolve into is rust, you cannot compare a mechanical thing with a living thing.....

Answer 11

The monkeys were dolphins!

I get so fed up with ignorant religous people who try and argue that there is no such thing as evelution because there are still monkeys! Read darwin before you say rubbish like that. And who's to say that God didn't CREATE man in the image of himself via EVOLUTION! the same way I create a wooden doll in the shape of my self via carpentry.

We didn't come from an atom, we are made from atoms, and this isn't theory, it's proved! If you go to a University somewhere and ask to look through an atomic telescope you will be able to see it for yourself!

And we have not stopped evolving, and nor have monkeys. We are bigger and stronger then our ancestors, and have much better brain power.