2007-10-02 04:19:58 · 29 answers · asked by suzie 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question, so many people have negative things to say b/c they can't answer the question. GOD made everything, he spoke and we were created. Thank you JESUS!
2007-10-02 05:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by Alesha P 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
* Drink! *
ADDENDUM
"the funny thing is that i see all these atheists posting insults and not actually answering the question..."
It would seem that lack of understanding of the search function goes hand in hand with reading disabilities.
"Evolutions say we evolved from apes or monkeys UNTIL you ask a question like this one. Then they say OH NO we just have a COMMON ANCESTOR."
Not to mention dyslexia...
2007-10-02 05:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because not all monkeys evolved. Just as some humans have not either it seems through out history, I swear they still have Neanderthal in them!! =]
Just because humans MAY have evolved from Monkeys does not state that all monkeys evolved into humans.
2007-10-02 04:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
We didn't 'evolve from monkeys' - if you have any understanding of evolutionary biology at all you’d be able to tell that the question makes no sense – humans and monkeys have both evolved from a common ancestor approximately 40 million years ago.
Rephrased in these terms it would be like you saying 'If I had a common grandfather with my cousin, why do my cousins still exist?'
You see? Phrased like that you begin to perceive the holes in the theory – the implicit assumption that human beings are the 'point' of evolution - only religious people make that mistake. The question is probably more devastating when asked to a religious person – if we were all created then why are there monkeys? The creationist can’t explain the purpose of an animal other than man which is not man’s food or servant because they believe the Universe was made for them alone.
Neo-darwinists can easily explain why there are other animals, because that’s just what you’d expect to see, with branching trees that show evolutionary relationships and these are of course, genetic relationships. What do you think it means to say that you’re a mammal? It denotes a genetic, familial relationship. It means you have a common ancestor with all the other mammals more than 200,000,000 years ago! You might as well ask if we came from dust, why is there still dust? If you’re honest with yourself, it’s easy to see which theory of our origins is based on reality and which is a merely a pre-scientific allegory from bronze-age storytelling. Science doesn’t ask you for any faith. Go to a museum, examine the evidence for yourself. Draw whatever conclusions you think make sense and be critical.
Biologists have understood and accepted since Victorian times that we're not the destined pinnacle of evolutionary adaptation, just an unexpected adaptation, one minor twig on the branch that is Mammalia. The Universe may not have a purpose for us, but we can always make our own.
Books:
‘The Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin
‘The Variety of Life’ by Colin Tudge
‘The Ancestor’s Tale’ by Richard Dawkins
‘Almost a Whale’ by Steven Jones
‘Evolution’ by Mark Ridley
Web:
http://www.talkorigins.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
Kind Regards.
2007-10-02 04:22:59 · answer #4 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 11⤊ 5⤋
I was hoping you'd be a level one and just didn't realize that this question in one form or the other has been asked so many times that I really don't blame you for asking it and that to apologize for all the mean answers. BUT you're a level 4, you should know better,or you're joking, hopefully its the later, so......
I tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor...
2007-10-02 07:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I like the question. I wonder that myself. Evolutions say we evolved from apes or monkeys UNTIL you ask a question like this one. Then they say OH NO we just have a COMMON ANCESTOR.
2007-10-02 04:26:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Drink.
If we evolved from single cell ignorant creatures, why are there still ignoramuses? I'm sorry, but this question is old, old, old.
2007-10-02 04:26:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
You said it,if we did come from monkey type,s then they would have evolved out from their sort into human,s but they
didn,t because we came from God who made us all.
2007-10-02 04:24:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
We didn't evolve from monkeys.
Both humans and monkeys (as well as all primates) divergently evolved from a primitive primate that no longer exists.
EDIT: Oh, and *drink*
2007-10-02 04:23:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
Can we have a setting on YA where when a person stars a question such as this, their computer smacks them in the forehead?
2007-10-02 04:28:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋