Evolution: A Catholic just told me God created monkeys first before us and that is why there is Evolution.?

Question

My uncle is Catholic he just told me God created monkeys first before us and that is why there is Evolution.
So in the Bible did it say that the humans came first or the monkey?
Were Adam and Eves like Apes or something? Is there a way we can tie in Evolution with Christianity?

Answer 1

Well, biblically speaking, Man was the last of the creations. . .

Answer 2

It makes no specific mention of monkeys, but monkeys are animals, and God created them before he created humans. (Genesis, the creation story.) Evolution and Christianity do work together. Adam and Eve probably didn't look quite like we do today, but they did not evolve from apes. If Adam and Eve evolved from apes, somewhere down the line apes would have to have evolved from plant matter, and that just isn't logical. So the way I see it is this: God created things in a sequence. First He created the universe, then he began fine-tuning our planet, then he added plants, then animals, then us. This is found in the creation story. But based on what science tells us, we can conclude that this was a billions-of-years-long process. Clearly evolution does happen, but I don't think our family trees include 3.7-billion-year-old microbes. I think once the earth was formed, God put plants on it, and they've been changing ever since. Once plants were able to sustain animal life, He put animals here, and they've been changing ever since. (Thus there are no longer dinosaurs, and we have mammals where a few million years ago nothing had fur.) And eventually humans followed suit.

But this is all my speculation. We haven't been around since God created the world, so no one can say for certain. I suppose we'll find out once we die anyway so it doesn't really make that much of a difference one way or another.

Answer 3

If we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?
Like the zebra and the horse are their own separate species, so was and is man and the monkey.
True that there have been many
archaeological finds that have
brought up skeletons which
science has surmised to
have similar
characteristics,
that could have possibly
tied man and these beasts
together in some ancestral way.
However, that is THEORY, speculation.
Like the THEORY of evolution. Some consider
the theory a fact because, their minds are limited
in what they are willing to concede to. Either the will
of an Omnipotent "being" who has (by their standards) never shown proof of HIS existence, or by the word of man (and their own EGO). To many of these types, it is better to believe that man can provide the answers (despite mankind's fallibility in so many areas).

If you are truly interested in finding the truth and have read the Bible and Koran, perhaps you should look at another book that is in that vein, but gives fr more detail about the origins and purposes of mankind. I've included the link below.
There is no harm in entertaining every possibility, until the TRUTH is made clear to you.

Answer 4

I don't think the Cannon of the Catholic Church addresses this issue as a matter of faith or morals, it is a question of science, like is the world flat. It is not an area the Catholic Church is qualified to answer.

However, Animals as monkeys were made in the six days of creation before man was made on the sixth day. Last and greatest of GOD's natural creations, the Angels being created but greater than man . . . Man is above the animals in the SPIRITual hierarchy GOD being MOST HIGH. . .

We say man was created in GOD's image. We say that GOD created man from the dust of the Earth just as the Bible says . .. that GOD created all things from nothing . .. but we don't put forth scientific theories on evolution or how monkeys may have or not have evolved only that GOD made them . .. GOD made all things in six days and rested on the seventh . .. though we understand that it is not a literal seven days . .. and that this has theological more than scientific relevance . ..

-LOVE your nieghbor as yourself.
Amen.

Personally I would consider the quotation from the Bible which says "the sons of GOD took wives from among the daughters of men." There could be something in that as it pertains to evolution. But i think your friend is speaking of a personal theory of his own on why there is evolution and creationism . .. i personall don't see the two as seperate but part of a cogent whole that explains the sea of people's today . .. blindness and the general suspicion among many that "we are just animals" when we are taught that the SPIRIT wars against the flesh within a man . ..

Answer 5

There are two different creation stories in Genesis.

In Genesis 1, God creates animals and then humans.
In Genesis 2, he creates humans and then animals.

In any case, Evolution doesn't claim that humans come from monkeys, so the Catholic seems to be very confused.

Answer 6

Animals were created before man, but man was created from the dust of the ground by God, Man did not "evolve" from the monkeys the Lord had just created...... Adam and Eve were human beings just like you and me... Evolution can never be truly tied to Christianity....

Answer 7

Think of the seven days of creation that the Bible describes. They werent seven human days, but seven Godly days. That may explain how evolution may be a fact in the Bible.

According to the Vedas, one year on earth is equal one minute of Lord Brahmas time.

God first created Lord Brahma and then Brahma created the earth and all the creatures and then Manu, the father of mankind.

Answer 8

Yes well this story doesn't sit right with me, I think I prefer Darwin's story up to the missing link, then there needs a jump of about fifteen steps of evolution from the Palaeolithic to Human, so the only logical step from the missing link to Humanity so quickly is Zecharia Sitchin's story of the cloning by the Anunnaki. As Michael Tellinger has now found some evidence in South Africa, so I have to go with this story.

Answer 9

God created man separate from the monkeys and other animals.

They will find WMDs in Iraq before so called scientists who worship at the feet of Darwin ever find a "missing link".

Humans did not evolve from apes / monkeys and the atheist Darwin anti Christian bigots will never find a missing link because it never existed.

Answer 10

Man was in fact the last of God's creations. And the Catholic Church allows her members to believe in evolution if they so choose. There really are no conflicts between evolution and Christianity.

Answer 11

The Genesis account where God created things speaks of God creating all things "according to their kind". Genetically we are locked into our "kind". We see this with cats inability to breed with dogs, horses not being able to have offspring to cows (even though they could be thought of as similar) lizards not being able to breed with snakes and so forth. This is a genetic safeguard that God put into our genes when making us, so that the human race and all animals on earth would begin to mutate. God created Adam and Eve and put within them, the genetic capacity to bring forth variety within their kind. Thats why we see so much variety not only in the human race but within animals also. But once that "kind" has bred to its limits it can no longer breed. For example a mule is the hybrid offspring of a he-*** and a mare. The mule is sterile and cannot bring forth offspring. Which testifies to the fact that God placed the genetic laws which stop one kind from changing into another. Each kind was individually created by Jehovah God. When we look at Luke 3:23-38 this is Jesus fleshly family tree showing his decendents starting with his fleshly father Josepth, son of Heli, son of Matthat, son of Levi...................................son of ADAM, son of God. If we evolved then this family tree is totally ficticious & people mentioned in it like King David, Jacob, Abraham & Noah can't be true either, let alone Jesus Christ! So we cannont tie in Christianity with evolution at all. Otherwise we disregard the ENTIRE Bible and it becomes along with Jesus and God totally meaningless. Interestingly when we look at seeds from trees etc. you'll never get an orange tree from a fig tree will you? Why? cause God created them according to their kinds also! (I'm not talking about genetically modifying things of course) I'm talking about have the Earth and the animal and human life on it has continued naturally for thousands of years.