did we really evolve from monkeys?
821944
I don't think so my tail is too short.
1174856
Gala, you are spouting the common creationist misconception that humans evolved from apes. This is not true at all. Rather, humans share a common ancestor with apes. Also, there have been findings of humans much older than 6000 years old.
1127502
I believe in myself.  As for evolution, in a nutshell there are still monkeys because the group of monkeys we came from were forced to evolve due to a new enviroment and monkeys didn't have to evolve because their enviroment has pretty much been the same.  Understand though that this didn't happen in a day or seven but over a few million years, its a fact sorry but that doesn't mean that there isn't a god.
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fossil evedence of what?  that you came from a monkey?  I did not evolve that way.  We belive there was a flood, we belive in dinosaurs so the fossils pose no problem we just don't belive that we came from monkeys so yes we can go to natrual history musuems, i have visited quite a few with my church by the way
256328
man and monkey evolved from a common ancestor
292034
We all had a common ancestor.  It just so happens that apes evolved differently to suit their environment than humans; we didn't evolve from each other, just divergently from our ancestor
170837
No, but I think modern monkeys and I had a common ancestor a very, very long time ago.  When a family diverges, they start getting different pretty quickly, depending on who they marry.  If one of my more recent ancestors went to China while my branch went to America, we'd look rather different now, wouldn't we? Why is it so hard to believe a more ancient equivalent, except because you are trying to take literally something which was written when scientific knowledge was extremely primative?\n\nScience and religion have two different goals, two different world views, and two vastly different vocabularies.  Religion is writing about things so beyond human experience that our words just do not fit, and we have to resort to symbols.  When you look at ancient manuscripts and ponder the symbols, you get a lot more than you get from words which have been sorted through any number of translations and interpretations since they were written.  Not a single word of the modern Bible (and remember, you go into a Bible Bookstore, you will find a great many modern versions, not just one) was originally written in English.  The writers had probably never even heard about that far-off island, and English as we know it had not been born.\n\nPlease, don't ridicule those of us who accept the theory of evolution as the most reasonable one.  We have let you continue to label it "theory" once most the rest of us have accepted it as fact.  Don't ask for more!
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It's not entirely believable that we evolved from apes. If you have ever actually looked into the question you would know that animals do evolve. I'm a Christian and still don't refute the facts that "survival of the fittest" is an actual scientific process. People don't evolve from ants because they have an entirely different make-up than people. Ants have an exo-skeleton while mammals do not. One good example of things evolving are moths. During the industrial revolution in Europe many objects (trees) became covered with a light soot. The moths used to be able to camoflauge themselves on tress but couldn't anymore because of the soot on the trees. Survival of the fittest was demonstrated because all of the darker moths that blended in with the trees were not eaten by preadtors. When these dark colored moths began surviving they reproduced and their offspring were well-suited to their environment due to their dark color. Evolution can not be denied. How can you explain how some animals must be "2 sexes" so that they can ensure their population can continue? It's obvious that at one time those types of animals were either male or female and had to "evolve" to survive. The whole theory behind evolution is: "Those that are best-suited to their environment will survive." Maybe not all monkeys had problems with predators as others did, which means they had no reason to evolve. Darwin broke-it down very easily and demonstarted a gradual change that developed us into humans.
5138
Exactly. Humans did not evolve from primates. The theory of evolution is full of holes.
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Monkeys are NOT ancestors of humans; they share the same common ancestor. this question does not have a simple answer; you need to study cladistics and phylogenic trees such as these to understand.\n\nhttp://www.personal.psu.edu/students/a/v/avh5000/\nhttp://www.origins.tv/darwin/hominid.htm\nhttp://www.4colorvision.com/files/phylotree.htm
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My God, I'm finally beginning to see the truth.  You have convinced me, despite all of the scientific evidence available and common sense, that evolutionists do indeed have it all wrong.\n\nWe have NOT evolved from apes.\n\nIn fact, based on the number of people who profess to believing in the exact wording the Bible gives for Creation, I now know without a shadow of a doubt that ......\n\n\n WE ARE STILL APES!\n\nI accept the invitation.  What can I bring?  I know of a great place to get apples.
833870
No, its not true. If its true and that human being evolve from monkeys, then why can't they find one monkey that is half man and half monkey. If they can find one, then i'll believe. The chicken came first. Believe me.
518487
think about this. if we were all monkeys how come some evolved to be black, white, chinese etc. darwin is full of sh**
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Firstly, monkeys haven't evolved into humans.  Modern humans evolved through various ape-like ancestors over many millions of years, with homo sapiens appearing around 20-30,000 years ago.\n\nThe way I understand it, for something to evolve, there has to be an available evolutionary niche to fill.  Humans (and their early ancestors like homo ergaster or homo erectus) have filled theirs.  Even if they hadn't, any other ape would probably have evolved into something that was quite different from homo sapiens.\n\nChimpanzees (the closest living relatives to homo sapiens, us) have evolved to fill their niche.  There is nowhere else for them to evolve to (although they are advancing, see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1006_041006_chimps.html for info), no available evolutionary niche that needs them.  \n\nOf course chimps, gorillas etc have evolved over millions of years and are different from their ancestors who lived at that time.  They are constantly evolving and in many millions more years will probably be quite different from what they are now.\n\nP.S. Monkeys are different from apes!  They are often smaller and most of them have a prehensile tail, whereas apes do not (and there are differences again between Old and New World Monkeys).  Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate for some more info.
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But the most obvious answer to your question is that we obviously do evolve... we'd all be dead if we didn't\n\nsurvival of the fittest
1083295
Im astonished that people actually think that humans CAME FROM monkeys or apes. we didnt come from either of them, we just are in the same family, like dogs are related to wolves. We actually came from a much larger primate than a freakin monkey. we are of the same family as them but no we did not come from them. and why do people relate the evolution thing to whether there is a god or not? i dont get that at all, all it proves is that humans as we know them werent the first on earth, who knows... maybe adam and eve were cavemen.
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I have all the respect in the world to Darwin. He is a good scientist, and even though evolution does indeed occur; it occurs withIN one species. So, in effect, an insect can evolve into an 'evolved' insect, but it can't evolve into a fish! Primates might 'seem' similar, but I do not hold them in the same 'species' as humans. In other words, I do not believe that WE evolved from monkeys, and therefore, we have no 'relatives' from the animal kingdom. If primates evolved into anything; I think it is into bigfoot, but not humans.