http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/If_people_evolved_from_apes_why_are_there_still_apesIf people evolved from apes why are there still apes?Answer
The human race evolved from an "ape like" species, but a species only evolves to help it in its survival. The apes' ancestors could survive being an ape so they didn't continue to evolve, whereas our ancestors kept evolving to help them stay alive. Survival of the fittest is what drives evolution, and our ancestors just happened to "need" evolution more than the apes.
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I don't believe people evolved from apes. Humans and the ape family have similarities and that is where it ends. I believe all creatures were created by a wonderful God. If things evolved from other creatures as evolution says, why then are there such vast differences within the kingdoms. Mammals have vast differences---including whales--which are mammals and not of a fish family---yet has similarities to fish. Evolution just doesn't seem to have answers to those questions. God created humans for His pleasure and for a relationship with Him.
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apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor. this ancestor split up and evolved into different species, one became erect and the other continued as it was
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It's simple really, we didn't evolve from apes, monkeys, one celled organism, or anything of that nature. In Genesis 1:1, "In the BEGINNING, GOD created the Heavens and the earth. In Genesis 1:26, it states, "And GOD said, Let us make man in our image..." "And in 1 Corintheans 15:39 it says that all flesh is not the same flesh:but there is one kind of flesh of men,another flesh of beast another of fishes and another of birds" So when you study this text or know what this means then you will see why it sounds soo ridiculous to even say that we came from monkeys.
You see, we were created in the likeness of our Almighty GOD... No, we aren't gods, we were blessed by creation.
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man and ape are different. man is exposed to all kinds of enviroments that makes us different . for example- if we live in the constant cold our bodies would grow hair and the offspring would inherit the same genetics. some people live in different parts of the world and have different appearences but are still human. man got smarter because of experiences used in living and passing on their knowledge on to their children. food makes us different, the area we live in, the type of exercise, type of work,so the man that first started out looked very different but was not ape. Did we look like one, probably ... all we have are some bones.
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I am Catholic but skeptical and studying science. It stands to reason that humans evolved from a common ancestor shared with apes. If not, then why have there been humanoid fossils discovered demonstrating changes in human physique, hence behaviour and adaptations.
Incest is forbidden so we could not all be descendents of Adam and Eve, that would be contradictory. The Bible is representative, exaggerated over time by stories and individual interpretations like many myths: based on fact, but altered.
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Humans didn't evolve from apes; rather, we and apes evolved from a common ancestor (who is no longer with us, but has been identified in fossil form).
The relationship is more like cousins than parent-child.
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There are still apes because some apes did not evolve into people. If rocks are crushed into stones, why are there still rocks? There are still rocks because some rocks did not get crushed into stones.
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Different species have evolved according to the conditions and ecological niches they find themselves in. Speciation occurs when a subtle change confers an advantage on a given population.
Let's think of a simple example:
If the world were suddenly covered in snow, and polar bear-type predators invaded everywhere, it stands to reason that they'd be more likely to eat dark coloured animals which they could see more easily.
That would give an advantage to animals which, by chance and *not* design, happened to be white. Animals of a usually black type which happened by chance to be *partly* white might also escape the bears. They would then be most likely to breed, passing on the white genes to their offspring.
Over time, all animals would become white, as the ones least suited to their environment were weeded out. Some species which were unable, by chance, to adapt, would go extinct as the polar bears ate the lot of them.
This is a very basic explanation, but is designed for silly Christians to grasp the concept. Organisms do not "choose" to evolve, they evolve by a series of chance mutations.
So, humans have evolved in a different way to chimps, gorillas and orangutans because the requirements of the environment we found ourselves in were different. It was an advantage for us to go in the direction we went, just as it was for the other apes.
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I would like to clarify a mistaken point on evolution stated previously in this series of responses. It was said that is humans were placed in a cold climate we would grow more hair and these genes would be passed on. Well, that answer is half-right but severely flawed. As Lemarck taughts us in his failures "aquired traits are NOT heritable". So if a little haired person were to grow hair then reproduce the offspring would not be inclined by their genes to have a heavy amount of hair. That was aquired by theparent and is completely seperate from geneitcs. Rather, evoultion and adaptation work randomly. The mutation to create more hair would be random in a population so some humans in the group would have more hair by nature (genetically). This individuals would in turn have a greater chance for survival in the cold environment. As the are selected for by nature their percentages will increase. More of the hairier humans will survive to reproduce and their children will be genetically driven to be hairier. That is just one of the marvalious and logical ways evolution in our nature world occurs. Thanks for your time and willingness to gain important knowledge
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This post is more of an RE to other posts regarding creationism vs. evolution: If you're interested in science, please read up on just about any Stephen Jay Gould book you can lay your hands on. You can refer to the following webpage, from the National Academies of Science:
http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/ As far as SCIENCE goes, evolution is not "just a theory," but a proven scientific fact. Remember, Newton had his "Theory of universal gravitation," which turned out to be mostly correct. We now have the theory of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics can be verified by a variety of methods. On a macro (large) scale, Newton's theory can also be verified by scientific methods. The same goes for the theory of evolution. The theory describes a large variety evidence found in the field, and also has preditictive powers, all of which make it more than just a theory.
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Evolution is simply a random series of slight genetic mutations that over millions of years creates an entirely different species. For instance, say a tribe of fair skinned people traveled to a very hot climate, those people with darker skin would be more likely to survive thereby passing on there dark skinned genes and eventually weeding out the fair skinned people.
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I believe that we have evolved from apes because it's just the most resonable answer. I mean think about it, if God created Adam and Eve, their sons Cane and Able(did i spell that right?) would have to phone a sister because there would be no one else to produce with, so that mean if God magically created Adam and Eve then we would all be related!!!! So in other words, we had to have evolved from apes because again, it makes the most sense, even if there are still apes around.
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You may as well ask why is there more than one kind of ape. Humans are just one kind of ape, a gorilla is another. Just like a tiger is a cat and a cheetah is a cat. They are both cats but one has spots and one has stripes. Same species, slightly different DNA. We are just a slightly smarter monkey.
You may be happy to know that evolution does not necesarrily exclude creationism. Many christian scholars believe in something called intelligent design. This means things can evolve but there is a divine hand in what the out comes are.
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Evolution only occurs when it is necessary. Some apes evolved into man because either they moved to a new environment or their existing environment changed, making evolution necessary for survival. So, the apes who needed to adapt to their new environment through evolution to survive either did so or were wiped out (apparently, they changed, creating the human race), or stayed in a friendly environment, making evolution unnessessary and therefore, nonexistent (the apes in these conditions remained apes).
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there is a theory that schizophrenia in apes caused the split, because of the discovery of fire, the schizoid apes discovered fire, and that is what seperated the apes and led to the evolution of man. a schizophrenics generally are highly intelligent, or of highly intelligent parents ( the last three nobel prize winners had schizophrenic children i think ) and this is what changed the habitat and led to the development of a soceity and got us out of the caves etc...this is just one idea, and i think it's a rather good one!
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There is NO absolute scientific proof that evolution is true. There are a lot of theories. No scientist has been able to prove without a doubt that evolution occured. I grant you that you can say the same thing about creation. I challenge any of you to find scientific proof of evolution that can not be logically and scientifically debated through creation. Here is a tidbit to think about. You say that Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago before man ever arrived on the planet. If so, why are there human and dinosaur footprints on the same bedrock in Glen Rose, Texas.
If evolution did occur why did it stop? For millions of years apes were evolving into man and when it occurred they just stopped? What was the magic number of apes that could evolve before it stopped? Wouldn't they still be evolving today? What did a horse evolve from and where are the evolving skeletons? An elephant? A Giraffe? Think about all the animals on the planet and tell me what they evolved from and where are the skeletal reamains to show the evolution chain. You can't say a Sabretooth tiger evolved into a Bengal tiger because it is still a tiger, what did the Sabretooth evolve from. No mammoth evolving to elephant because they are both still elephants, what did the mammoth evolve from. All life came from the sea, then where is the half fish half ape skeletons or should I say Merape? Here is a really good question for you, If dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago and became extinct. Why have scientist found so few prehistoric human skeletons but so many dinosaur ones. Shouldn't the human skeletons be higher in the bedrock? Not to mention all of the skeletal remains of the evolution chain from ape to man. There would be a lot of them over millions of years, wouldn't you think? Maybe there were only few apes at the begining that started evolving and they didn't mate much so they could keep it to a select group.
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Then can you please tell me where I can find this fish with arms and feet? I would really like to know this. And where can I find these "missing links" of half ape half man?
Common ancestors are on a phylogenetic tree of evolution. They are the "parents" of other organisms. (for example, say a dolphin that turns into a cow and a frog. the dolphin is the common ancestor.) If evolution occured over a very long period of time, wouldn't there be more fossils of the missing links (the dolphin-frog, or dolphin-cow) than fossils of the common ancestors? Where are these "missing links"?
One law of science is that science cannot prove a universal negative. It is impossible to prove that creation is non-existent. To prove that something is non-existent, someone would have to be everywhere in the world at the same time. Is there anyone alive today who saw creation take place? The same is for evolutionism. You can't prove it is non-existent. That is where a person's judgement and faith in a theory comes in.
There have been skeletal remains discovered of a fish with arms and feet. There is skeletal remains showing the different stages of ape to man. There is plenty of evidence supporting evolution. Dinosaur bones are much larger than human bones therefore making them less destructible and visible to diggers. It is proof of creation that is non-existent.
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The question should be,"What is the difference between humans and apes?" Unlike many of the asnwers given here there is only one good answer to that question. Humans are the only ones able to give some of the answers given here, thereby showing that only hummans have the ability to have their heads up their rear end.
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i really must say i'm amazed at all the blindness going on here. honestly, it takes more faith to believe in evolution then creation! i've read all the answers here and found so many fallacies about the Bible it's amazing. there is only one creation story in the BIble, incest was not forbidden until the the time of moses, and there are no contradictions in the Bible. seriously folks, there is no proof(NONE!) for evolution. but the arrangement of the fossils, the different incongruencies in the dating methods and the fossils all suggest the prescence of a world-wide flood. just go to drdino.com and see for yourself all the articles about evolution and how it tears them to shreds!
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DrDino is a great site for evolutionist to check out. Another great site is TrueOrigin.org. This site takes all the scientific data that evolutionist use to prove the THEORY of Evolution and shows you how it is false or supports creation more than evolution. As I said before there is "No" topic that supposedly proves evolution that can not be debated through creation. There are more holes, gaps, and uncertainies in the theory of evolution then in creation. The only force that allows evolution to be a factor in todays society is that we are to proud to admit that we are not in total control of what happens in our lives. We don't want to be held accountable to anyone else. We use the excuse that we act like animals because we came from animals.
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we look too good to have evolved from apes
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God is in all things. God is a word humans use to mean 'that is in all things.' God is the creator and the created. God is the great spiritual mystery of physics. He does not cause suffering, suffering is part of the system of God. He does not abhore homosexuality, homosexuality is part of the system of God. He does not create man, man is part of the system of God, as are all things. The system of genetics is changing in ways ordinary people cannot understand. In Gods Universe, the genes evolve, all animals are created in God's image. Ther is no conflict between evolution and God. Only when people maintain the earth was created only 10 000 years ago, they show their misunderstanding of God.
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How stupid can you be to actually believe the earth was only created 10,000 yrs ago - there is entirely too much proof otherwise - again, blind faith - do some reading, do some research, do some damn thinking.
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"Only when people maintain the earth was created only 10 000 years ago, they show their misunderstanding of God."
I thought he/she was saying that the people who think the earth was created 10,000 years ago misunderstand God...therefore he/she thinks that it wasn't created only 10,000 years ago. But I could be wrong.
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KONG'S RESPONSE : We look too good to have evolved from humans.