If evolutionists say that monkey's evolved into humans, why do monkeys still exist??

Question

If evolutionists say that monekys evolved into humans by the process of natural selection, survival of the fittest, and such theories...than why are they no longer evolving...a even better question...why do they still exist if a higher form has evolved?

and how come when people have no idea about the answer...they turn to rudeness? Their impolite answers only throw off others =[

Also, why do people make ridiculous exceptions to something obviously wrong with evolution?

Answer 1

I dont believe in evolution, but just wanted to tel you to NOT waste your time on this question. evolutionists will just give you some stupid nonsense answer. they have a stupid answer for everything

Answer 2

First, let me say you should have looked this up for one of the thousand or so times it's already been asked and answered here. It's THE premier question asked by people with no concept of evolution. The very way you ask it shows there are several facts that you have entirely wrong.

The answer is that the pattern of evolution is like a tree, not a stick.

Humans and apes share a common ancestor, this early ape's original homogenous population spread to several areas around the world (mostly in Africa and East Asia) these groups were separated (by geograaphy, weather, predators, food supply, ect.) and slowly accumulated mutations filtered through natural selection. Since these mutations can only be inherited by the offspring of the local group the groups grew more distinct with every generation. Eventually the amount of mutation created enough genetic difference between groups that they could no longer interbreed, creating separate species.

Each species adapted to the pressures of it's environment and the fittest (healthiest, best food collectors, best fighters, strongest, most disease free, smartest ect.) bred many offspring, while the weakest bred few or not at all. Eventually this refined into the species you see today. Gorillas evolved incredible strength, gibbons evolved amazing climbing ability and one isolated tribe of early ape developed a large frontal lobe increasing learning ability. That is the distant ancestor of man.

Got it? Our species is just one twig on a branch that forked millions of years ago. That branch forked from early primates millions of years before that into the branches of Apes, monkeys, lemurs and so on and that branch came from another where other branches fork until you come down to the root which would be some primary microorganism about 2 or 3 billion years back.

Monkeys are still evolving, just like all living things. They don't replicate perfect clones of each other and some will breed more than others due to superior speed or health, or whatever. If you test the genetic code of an species now and again in a hundred generations you'd notice some changes, new information mutated in and replicated, old characteristics absent. In a hundred thousand generations, maybe, you wouldn't even need to test the genes. Enough minor changes will have accumulated that evolution would be visually apparent.

As long as species don't reproduce exact copies of eachother each offspring will have a tiny difference from it's parents. Just as a hundred pennies make a dollar a million little differences make a big difference.

Even bacteria have a tiny chance of mutation during division but once the mutation happens it will never have the same genes as the rest of it's species again and the mutation will be copied every time the bacteria divides.

We're not a "higher" form. Every species on the planet is the latest model out there. Our intelligence just lets us adapt faster than the evolutionary rate but where still always one good virus or bacteria away from total extinction. The germ evolves an adaptation to invade our bodies, we lack the adaptation to resist and the entire human race is naturally selected into extinction.

Even out vaunted intelligence presents us with a risk no other animal has: that we destroy our own species through technology and war. Then, what initially seemed like a great adaptation will turn out to be a failure in the million year scale.

Sorry if it was a little long, but that basic evolutionary biology.

Hope it explains the monkeys.

Answer 3

Say for example that humans evolved from chimpanzees. A few hundred thousand years ago ,before the last ice age there was a great disturbance in the earth's mantle, happening mostly in what today is the continent of Africa, which at the time was nearly all rainforest. Volcanoes erupted and earthquakes shook the planet.

Right through the middle of that enormous rainforest, an entire mountain range rose. This caused a distruption of the water cycle of the continent and everything East of that new mountain range turned from jungle to savannah.

There was a huge colony of chimpanzees living in that forest, but since there was not enough room for them, many were driven into the plains, where they discovered many greated opportunities than in the rainforest. They could scavenge and eat food with more nutrients, and some time before discovering fire, they learned how to walk on 2 legs. So they evolved.

Meanwhile, the other chimpanzees who had remained in the forest had no need to adapt, so they stayed pretty much the same.

The two species still exist because thousand of years ago, they both came from the same creature, but their evolutionary paths split.

Answer 4

Prosimians. You'll find many who will say we didn't evolve from a monkey. But if our pre-ape ancestors were still running around, they most likely would be considered a type of monkey by taxonomists. Also, we didn't just evolve from apes, we are still apes. Just do some research on "Hominidae". Be sure to look at the common name for that group then look at the members in it.

Answer 5

because some didn't take that leap. just like the fact that there is a primitive form of dragon fly that doesn't fold up it's wing and the more modern form which does. and yet the two are living in the present time. natural selection for extinction happens when a species just isn't able to thrive along side it's modern counter part. if both are able then both survive. it has nothing to do with a more evolved species.

Answer 6

Hi. I am a Christian who has done some study into this subject. I recommend you read the book called 'The Language of God' By Dr Francis S. Collins. Dr Collins is a devout Christian who presents an argument based on Science for belief in God. This includes accepting evolution.

Dr Collins headed up the Human Genome project, so his Scientific credentials are not debatable.

Answer 7

'then why are they no longer evolving'....evolution takes thousands and thousands of years. You can't pop down to your local zoo and watch it happen.

Besides, there are many varieties of monkey, evolution doesn't mean that one has to die out completely.

The bits in the corner of your eyes, they are the last part of another eyelid that went horizontal across your eye. Your little toe, it used to be useful, now it isn't, but don't wait around to see if if falls off anytime soon though.

Blimey, you might want to read up about this a bit more before you ask these sort of questions.


****Excited about Christ....that's rich coming from you, the person that actually answered that Noah put dinosaurs into the ark.

Answer 8

Looks like two drinking questions in one, the monkeys and the no longer evolving. Lemme get two shots of egg nog here, barkeep!

Answer 9

No, a common ancestor evolved into monkeys and humans. Both are still evolving.

Answer 10

Just who said that ALL "monkeys" evolved into humans?


How many different types of primates exist?

How many different types of fish?

How many different types of birds?

How many different types of insects?

How many different types of trees?

(and the list goes on and on and on...)

The point is: Seriously, there's no need to try to stand on one side or the other of the "discussion" between creation and evolution. There ARE other options. Keep your mind open.

Answer 11

This i think is a question to be celebrated--it's about the thousandth time it's been asked and the same answers given. All you fundies out there--we are giving this question a number =666 so when you want to ask it just enter 666?