is evolution for idiots?

Question

why is it theres such an enormous gap between monkies and humans, and an even bigger gap between monkies and whatever they evolved from? these gaps would have billions and billions of fossils to show they even existed, but we seem a bit hard pressed to find them. but we sure are eager to beleive they're there...somewhere we super-evolved humans just havent found yet? someone please tell me where these fossils are so i dont have to believe in god. anyone?

Answer 1

Y'know, you can "ask" a question without calling people "idiots."

It's an especially bad idea when the people you are calling "idiots" include the overwhelming majority of biologists, biochemists, geneticists, paleontologists, anthropologists, professors, writers, field researchers, Nobel laureates, people with PhD.s, and practically anybody with a science degree of *any* kind. To call them *ALL* idiots really does not make you look good.

There are many primates where the fossil record is sparse and other parts where it is very rich. The other apes (chimps, gorillas, and especially the gibbons) live in jungle environments where fossilization is extremely rare. However, the fossil record of humans (whose evolution was largely in drier savannah-type environments) is very good.

But what someone failed to point out to you is that even if not a single fossil had ever been found ... not one ... the evidence from DNA *alone* is compelling evidence not only for common ancestry, but provides a detailed map of just what those relationships are. The genetic similarity between modern humans and all other primates is just scratching the surface. Every protein, every amino acid, every nucleotide pair, everything in our biochemistry adds up to a clear pattern of shared ancestry.

All the fossils could do is disprove the DNA evidence ... and they don't ... the fossils (where they exist) verify the DNA evidence perfectly.

>"these gaps would have billions and billions of fossils to show they even existed,"

Billions and billions? Why do you say that? If you understood how fossils form you would know that's simply not true.

>"someone please tell me where these fossils are so i dont have to believe in god. anyone?"

When you start out thinking that evolution is about *disproving God*, no wonder you have such a deep-seated hostility to evolution, to science, and to scientists in general! That is why you call them "idiots"!

Evolution is NOT incompatible with the notion of God, or a Creator, or even the Bible. It is only incompatible with a very narrow, simplistic absolutely *literal* reading of the Bible, that only a narrow section of Christians adhere to.

Where are the fossils? In museums, in laboratories, in universities, in dozens of excellent books. And in dozens of very good web sites (see source). And there are literally hundreds of scientific journals on fossils (see last source).

But these things don't mean you have to stop believing in God!

Answer 2

What makes you think that the gap between monkeys and humans is so great. The closest thing to us is the chimp. It can be taught language. This is animal so close to human that it can be taught to speak fluent sign language with a decent vocabulary. A university in America gave a sign langauge capable ape an IQ test. For her physical age of 20 {in chronological years she was only four} she had an IQ of 80. There are people who vote, drive and can own guns with an IQ lower than that. From there you step down through the ranks of the apes getting further away from humans through gorillas, orangs and baboons. From there you get to monkeys and from there you go to protosimians such as lemurs or bushbabies. If you look at a bushbaby you can see it isn't far removed from a rodent.

Then you need to look at the fossil record. It is more than a one in a million chance that something is fossilized and then it has to survive to the modern day. The animal has to die in an environment conducive to the process such as a swamp or seabed, then it has to avaoid being eaten by scavengers, then just the right type of sediment has to cover it and a dozen other little things have to go right. Just follow the fossil record from homo spaien down through neanderthals, habilus, erectus and you can see how close to apes we get.

Then there is the evidence that IS present in the fossil record. The first bird had dinosauric traits like scales and teeth. The arkyopterix {not sure on the spelling} was the evolutionary bridge between birds and dinosaurs.

I don't understand why religous types try to push evolution under the rug. Can't evolution be the tool god uses to update creatures?

Answer 3

Great answer by secretsauce.

Your question is so bemusing (and amusing) in its ineptitude, its ignorance and its demonstration of your complete lack of education on this subject that I hardly know where to begin. As a pointer for future debate, may I suggest to you that the key to a successful debater is to know your subject matter. You clearly fail on this criteria, which makes it hardly worth arguing with you.

If you could even be bothered to watch a nature documentary, or dare I say it - visit a museum - perhaps you would not be quite so ignorant. I would like to know where your idea that there is an "enormous gap" between "monkies" and humans came from.

First of all, we didn't evolve from "monkies" or even monkeys. Our ancestors were ape-like creatures who were also the ancestors of modern chimpanzees. Secondly, if you've ever seen a chimp or gorilla you would be able to appreciate just how similar our species are.

Answer 4

People who believe in evolution, just like the religious, are not idiots. Often times, people who challenge evolution say that it is difficult to believe that we can from monkeys. It really helped for me to realize when I first learned about evolution that we actually do not come from monkeys.

Evolution states that we have a common ancestor with monkeys, not that we are a further evolved state of the monkey. Monkeys descended from an animal that we also descended from, and that's where we get that 99% similar DNA evidence.

Many people, probably like yourself, like concrete evidence and that's always good. Unfortunately, the fossil record isn't complete and never will be. A lot of the species that have existed on Earth at some point failed to fossilize or was disturbed and gone forever. However, much of the scientific data points to this common descent that is critical to believing in evolution, and that is why most scientists today believe in evolution and remmeber, that does not mean they can't keep their religious beliefs either. I have known many people that believe in both evolution and their religion.

Answer 5

Most of those 'old' animals died and rotted away. And an animal which got eaten does not leave a fossil. The animal that ate it did but in a different form. The human genome is about 98% compatible with a chimpanzee. What sets us aside is the Spirit or Soul or whatever you want to call it. The Mind.

Answer 6

The answer is yes. Evolution is for idiots. Evolution needs to balance out the clever people with stupid people.

If you go to somewhere like the Natural History Museum you will see a large variety of ape and humanoid bones and it is not difficult to imagine the process that led to humans.

Increased brain capacity (whether you choose to use it or not) was obviously a very powerful force and caused rapid evolution.

Scientists watching a butterfly population saw it collapse due to a parasite. Within a few years a resistant butterfly had evolved and has taken over. Evolution sometimes has to be quick in order to survive.

Answer 7

Do you find the difference between humans / apes / and yes even monkeys is THAT big ? You must admit not even every human today has evolved that far to tell the difference ;-).

Totally independent of that, of course i would sure say you can believe in God and in evolution. I'm sure many people do,
and perhaps they can be considered further evolved in some way, compared to those ignoring basic scientific evidence.

Answer 8

I think you need to do a tiny bit of research before blasting a widely accepted law of science.

The differences between us and other apes are not large - about 1%-5% or so of our DNA. Thats truly tiny.

The changes in evolution happen quite quickly and fossil formation is veyr rare - yet there are lots of examples of apes at various stages along the way to being human.

Evolution is continuous, not discrete - there is no such thing as an "intermediate" form to find. Its a nonsense invented by those who do not understand the law of evolution.

Answer 9

Evolutionary process are very very slow when compared to the life span of human beings.

So we can't able to see the major evolutionary changes. I think you know that humans had tails but now they are extinct.

But know seen the human with tails only fossils that shows us.

You know one interesting matter that the evolutionary process is still going on to the living things in the world. Because in first the humans didnot have the outerlayer of the brain. But it is now having.

You asked the question to believe in god This depends on your own wish. Becuase in old days people believe in god to what they didn't know. But this has good help this creates the people to aware form the fear. If you didn't fear on anything you don't need to believe in GOD

Thanks for your question.

Answer 10

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