Just one question, If we all came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Shouldnt they have evolved also?

AFAICR, the thinking is that monkeys and humans both evolved (in different directions) from a common ancestor: the so-called 'missing link'. We're two branches off the same stem.

HTH

by paxx - 8/1/2004 10:23:45 PM First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution, skip this thread and go to the next one. This is not meant as a religious debate. Open your Adam and Eve thread and I promise not to butt in it. I'm serious...

#12 by TYBSP - 8/2/2004 12:01:13 AM Just one question, If we all came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Shouldnt they have evolved also?

I've a question also... Why?

I know you read and comprehend what paxx stated in the above quote from the very first start of this thread. So, again, Why?



read... if you are of mind to..

http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications.html

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BF62C-0C21-1CD0-B4A8809EC588EEDF

http://www.dnafiles.org/resources/res05.html

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/H/humanevo.html




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Monkeys could see into the future...it was either get a job or get eaten by lions....

@ Yrag and IR

Damit IR, looks like I have chosen the wrong way, with my job it sure is better to be eaten by lions

intresting article tought...

And Roy of Siegfried & Roy tried to combine the two.

And Roy of Siegfried & Roy tried to combine the two.

Proof! I say this is proof that Humans are the most intelligent of all they purvey. hehehe

And yet, everyone thinks all of existence focuses on him or herself.

'Sides, "how little we are": on a cosmic scale we fall through the atoms.

IPlural
My answer to your question is this:
There are Holes permeating the idea of evolution just as evolutionists feel that there are holes in the Adam and Eve theory. The Idea of a Big Bang works for both beliefs. Was all matter balled up in one big ball and then it exploded on its own or was there some intervention. The original thread from paxx stated if you dont believe in the Big Bang and Evolution then it was not for you. Well in a sense, I do believe in both but not in the sense that I came from a friggen monkey. I certainly did not discuss religion, I simply put out a question that was meant to gain an understanding as to why a person can actually believe they came from a monkey.

The Big Bang is a believable theory IMO and an interesting discussion point.

I'll quote it once again for those that missed it the first two times.

First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution, skip this thread and go to the next one. This is not meant as a religious debate. Open your Adam and Eve thread and I promise not to butt in it.I'm serious

Start your own thread and leave this one for paxx.

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There are Holes permeating the idea of evolution just as evolutionists feel that there are holes in the Adam and Eve theory.

Evolution is a theory in constant study taking in consideration all that surrounds us to determine how exactly was the universe (and life) created.
Adam and Eve is (according to the bible) a fact and not a theory

I do believe in both but not in the sense that I came from a friggen monkey

We did not evolved from a 'monkey' The string of cells that generated the 'modern human DNA' were spawns of an original cell that gave way to different species of mammals each one evolved in a different way. The much often comparison of man to apes/monkeys is do to the fact that they are the closest thing (behavior and appearance wise) to the human form.

As explained by a professor at the NYC Museum of Natural History

I agree Apocalypse.

Sorry to have inflamed ppl. I was just making a comment and not trying to go against what paxx originally said.

[Tin Foil Hat time]

I believe that the planet was seeded, and a genetic structure for mankind was deposited on earth. HA!

Whether it be asteroidal, manufactured probe, or whatever. I have a hard time believing in mere happenstance that the complex genetic sequence just happened, along.

But seriously I think the evolution of the gene sequence, is remarkable, to have evolved. Even more amazing is that the gene sequences for as many lifeforms, that are on this planet, have evolved. It's like lightning in a bottle..to the N'th degree.
So this is why I tend to lean towards the Terra Seeding philosophy.
Being that there is such a genetic and ecological interdependance.
We are just now discovering, interactions from species, that were not known before. As we kill off species and observe their effects on th ecological front.
Now I do not want this to be interpreted as a Religious or even remotley religous leaning. I do belive in a Superior Being, only in the respect that Mankind, is a unevoluted distant relative, and is heading that way.

kona0197 remembers the "Creation vs Evoulution" thread last year..

kona,

hang on a second while I warm up my keyboard

(Just kidding!)