Evolutionists.. come!!?

Question

Please answer these questions

If evolution is true..
1)If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes today?
2)What are human beings going to evolve into?
3)How would a simple single-celled organism evolve into something as complex as the human body?

How do we know the earth is 4 billion years old? Carbon dating is only accurate for a few thousand years so do not give me that as a repsonse.

Answer 1

1) We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved WITH apes from a common ancestor.

2) I don't know the future.

3) Ask this in Biology, I don't feel like opening my science book.

Answer 2

If you want proper answers from people who are interested in answering your question, rather than "Oh that's a great question, let's see them answer this!" remarks from your fellow creationists you should have asked this in the Biology, or at least somewhere under the Science and Maths section.

But nonetheless, here's your answers, not that you'll read them:

1) We didn't evolve from modern apes. The common ancestor of all primates (including us) evolved into a variety of different species due to different enviromental pressures. Think of a seed and how when it grows its branches reach into different directions - that's similar to the "family tree" of evolution.

2) Nobody knows this but as humans are not subject to natural selection due to our use of technology to aid the weak and ill, we're unlikely to evolve any time soon.

3) While a specialised single cell (a fertilised egg cell) CAN develop into a human body, a single celled organism cannot just suddenly become a human being. The process of evolution takes many thousand to millions of generations for developmental changes to accumilate. All it would take for a single celled organism to become multicellular would be a slight mutation causing it and it's offspring to group together (may be beneficial say, if single cells were more likely to be eated by predators while cell "clumps" were not).

*) We know that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years because several indepenant studies have resulted in roughly the same number. If astronomy, geology, and planetologists all come to the independant conclusion that the Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old then they're at least around the right figure. Comparative research is one of the ways science works. Here is an article that covers most of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth Look to the references and further information if you consider Wiki to be biased.

Answer 3

1. Well, why do we still have peaches when we have the nectarine, which is a mutation of a peach? We have them because the mutation happened on one tree. It didn’t affect all the other peach trees. In any event, we have common ancestors, which is certain through DNA comparisons.

2. There is really no reason for humans to evolve further since we are able to so thoroughly manipulate our environment. If this were to change, say a pandemic or some catastrophic disaster that wiped out most of the human race, this could change. In that event we might evolve to better survive the new environment. How? Who knows. It depends what we were facing.

3. Let me put it this way. A lot can happen over the span of a billion years.

Answer 4

I really don't know why I bother, you want to pretend all the bones, fossils, records and proof is made up, but here goes one more time.

Many land animals came from the ocean, yet there are still fish today. The lines just branched.

How do you explain all the different types of humanoid remains found all over the earth. That is pretty much self explanatory. There is no mention in scripture of these "animals" (as you would call them) yet they are real and there is proof.

We are evolving, our life span is getting longer, our bodies are getting taller, there have been subtle recorded changes in humans in the past 5000 years. Not to mention the NOT so subtle differences in the races that were caused by EVOLVING in different climes on this earth.

Evolution take thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years. Why don't you come back and revisit this question if the species survives that long.

As for your last question we all start out as "single celled" organisms, then the cells split, and split and split. Not that big of a leap.

So, did you just opt out of all the science classes? No wonder so many other countries are kicking our educational rear ends.

Answer 5

There's no such thing as "evolutionists". Are you a "gravitationist"?



Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in.

It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy.

However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer:

1.

1. Humans and other apes are descended from a common ancestor whose population split to become two (and more) lineages. The question is rather like asking, "If many Americans and Australians are descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans around?" Creationists themselves recognize the invalidity of this claim (AIG n.d.).

Links:
Foley, Jim. 2002. Fossil hominids: Frequently asked questions http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/faqs.html#apes
References:

1. AIG, n.d. Arguments we think creationists should NOT use. http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/faq/dont_use.asp#apes

Further Reading:
Darwin, C., 1872. The Origin of Species, London: Senate, chap. 4. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin/chapter4.html

2.

That depends on the selection pressures in the future.

3.

In very, very, very small steps.


4.

Carbon is not the only element with radioactive isotopes.

Answer 6

1) We certainly are descended from apes, indeed humans are apes so anyone with human parents is descended from apes.
2) We're going to continue to evolve into Homo sapiens until biologists decide to change the name.
3) Over billions of years.

Carbon dating is accurate to about 30-40 thousand years. Scientists know this, and they do not use it for things suspected of being older. The age of the Earth is not determined by carbon dating.

Answer 7

1. Evolution is a branching process, we share common ancestors with other apes. Why would we not have "cousins"?

2. No one knows in what ways evolution will affect our descendents, if we don't go extinct as a species beforehand.

3. Is actually a good question, and the subject of a lot of biological study. If you are interested start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular#Evolutionary_history and here: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB922.html

4. Carbon dating is not used for dating the age of the earth - you need other radiometric methods.

Answer 8

1. We didn't evolve from apes. Think a tree not a ladder.
2. We do not know. Can you see in to the future?
3. Over a very very very long time. So long you could not comprehend it. We do not have all the answers and neither do you.

Answer 9

Oh my word... you're serious. You're actually serious.

*sigh*

Ok......

1) We DIDN'T evolve "from apes". Apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor.

2) Why do you assume that homo sapians will 'become' anything else? It doesn't necessarily work that way.

3) WHAT simple single celled organism? What are you talking about??

Answer 10

1. Buy a book, a real book by a scientist instead of a creationist, on evolution so you don't look like a complete idiot asking this question.
2. No one knows. Maybe nothing, if we kill each other off first.
3. See # 1. This is YA, not biology class.