If people evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

Question

Shouldn't all of the monkeys be gone?

Answer 1

Drink

but to play along:
1. The monkeys you see today are already modern animals, they are evolving still, plus we didn't came from them, but rather we share a common ancestors with apes/monkeys.
2.The theory of evolution does not say that organism must evolve overnight. In fact, in an unchanging environment, stabilizing selection would tend to keep an organism largely unchanged. Many environments around today are not greatly different from environments of millions of years ago. see Some species, such as the tuatara, horseshoe crab, cockroach, ginkgo, and coelacanth, are "fossil species." They have not evolved for millions of years.

Answer 2

You have to be a troll, right? This is about the most stereotypical question that creationists ask, but I'll refute you anyways.

1. First, our closest simian relatives are chimpanzees, not monkeys. Chimps don't have tails, like humans.

2. Second, humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees; instead, humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor.

3. Finally, just because Species B has evolved from Species A doesn't mean that Species A has to disappear.

Answer 3

Excellent point! God is the Creator of everything on earth & and in heaven. After He finished, He said it was Good and then He rested. It was finished and complete from the very beginning.

Human beings have souls, monkeys do not. Neither do they have a conscience or know the difference of what right from wrong is like God created in people to do.

And why do monkeys not only still exist in the world if people evolved from them why don't they walk completely upright, why do they have four hands and no feet? What was the purpose of walking on their hands if they were going to evolve and walk upright?, What would be the point of having a thumb on a monkey's foot, if he would evolve to walk on his feet?

Why don't people have thumbs on our feet? or fur for that matter. In case anyone else reads this who doesn't know, it is because God created monkeys to live in the trees , and He gave them a thumb on their feet so they could easily climb up trees, and He gave them fur to protect their skin.

Why don't people have long fur on our skin, and we only have long hair that grows from our scalps? Suppose maybe God knew it would protect our heads because we were created to walk upright from the very beginning?

If people evolved from apes then why do apes look like apes, monkeys look like monkeys, kangaroo's look like kangaroo's and people look like people? Could it be that just maybe God created it that way, because it IS that way?? That He created monkeys to be monkeys? That maybe that's why they still exist?

The fact that monkeys' still exist proves they are nothing more than monkeys and it disproves the theory that people evolved from them. Why isn't their DNA 100% exact? Because they ARE monkeys, not people. Any Scientist can look under a microscope and tell the difference between what is plant, animal, & human beings.

I wonder if a scientist found similar things in other creation like in the cells of a plant, would he then say we evolved from plantlife? Or a sea creature, and would he then say we all evolved to live on land?, it's just as ridiculous as saying we evolved from monkeys! It is merely man's "theory" not God's Word. It is not possible for a human being to evolve from another animal. If this were true, why isn't our DNA & our blood cells that of monkey's? If it were it would be compatible with human beings, which it is not, nor can it be.

Scientists have proven that if you combined the two, it would be a malformation and incomplete, full of inconsistencies needed for DNA and it would die! Therefore they concluded that evolution is not possible and that the "theory" is "inaccurate and contains too many inconsistencies"

I just hope that others will just consider this question for a minute, because it is absolutely 100% correct,

If monkeys evolved into human beings, and they all eventually walked upright and lost all their fur and lost their thumbs on their feet,wouldn't they all be people? It the theory of evolution were accurate, there wouldn't be any monkeys left, They should all be gone..........

Answer 4

We did not come from monkeys, or apes, or Adam and Eve. We are a stand alone species, DNA proves we are not related to cave men, are closes cousin is the chimp, but you would have to go back 100's of million years to find something in our 'evolutionary line' that looks kinda like a chimp. And 2 people to 6 billion in 5000 years? The numbers don't add up.

Answer 5

The utter stupidity of you people is breathtaking I assume you are referring to Darwinism. If you have the intelligence to read a book I suggest you read his Origin of Species and discover the theory that we came from a common ancestor and not from monkeys. This question is typical of the half- formed opinions of religious believers. Ignorance rules OK.

Answer 6

In the Image of God or Beast?
The first man, Adam, was called a "son of God." (Luke 3:38) No animal has ever enjoyed that distinction. Yet, the Bible shows that humans have a number of things in common with animals. For example, both humans and animals are souls. When God formed Adam, "the man came to be a living soul," says Genesis 2:7. First Corinthians 15:45 concurs: "The first man Adam became a living soul." Humans are souls, so the soul is not some shadowy entity that survives the death of the body.

Concerning animals, Genesis 1:24 says: "Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind." So while dignifying humans by revealing that we were created in God's image, the Bible also reminds us of our humble status as earthly souls, along with the animals. Yet, there is something else man and beast have in common.

The Bible explains: "There is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies . . . There is no superiority of the man over the beast . . . All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust." Yes, in death man and animals are also alike. Both return "to the ground," "to dust," from which they came.—Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20; Genesis 3:19.

But why are humans so profoundly distressed by death? Why do we dream of living forever? And why must we have a purpose in life? Surely, we differ greatly from animals!

Where We Differ From Animals
Would you be happy to go through life with no purpose other than to eat, sleep, and reproduce? The thought repels even dedicated evolutionists. "Modern man, this enlightened skeptic and agnostic," writes evolutionist T. Dobzhansky, "cannot refrain from at least secretly wondering about the old questions: Does my life have some meaning and purpose over and above keeping myself alive and continuing the chain of living? Does the universe in which I live have some meaning?"

Indeed, denying the existence of a Creator does not still man's quest for a meaning to life. Quoting historian Arnold Toynbee, Richard Leakey writes: "This spiritual endowment of [man] condemns him to a lifelong struggle to reconcile himself with the universe into which he has been born."

Yet, the fundamental questions about human nature, our origins, and our spirituality persist. A huge gulf obviously exists between man and animals. How great is that gulf?

Answer 7

I guess it's my turn to answer this oft-repeated question.

The short answer is: According to most accepted versions of the theory of evolution, humans did not evolve from contemporary monkeys or apes. Instead, both groups evolved separately from a common ancestor long ago. That ancestor no longer exists.

Answer 8

We did not evolve from monkeys!! God created humans!!! He also created monkeys!!!

Answer 9

Nice name, and a member since, well, today!

You are a dummy, but you are no Christian. Perhaps you are a monkey. They can teach them to do some amazing things.

If you drop the keyboard, I'll give you a bannana.

Answer 10

If Lexus evolved from Ford why are there still Fords?