DID WE EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS

[lemon]

Re: RE: DID WE EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS

I wish you all the best, just remember us little folk when you are the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet.



Allan

thats the plan... to return my nation to its citizens. :rock

 

[Speeding Biker]

DID WE EVOLVE FORM MONKEYS????????????

Hang on. We EVOLVED?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? WHEN????????????????:homo:

 

[The Joker]

Nice grave digging Biker -_-. This thread is over 2 years old.

 

[valley]

the big question that might hinder one from saying evolution took place is because evolution usually takes place when a species is not as adapted to its environment and the evolution must occur to ensure survival, if there was really a flaw in the genetic design in apes then why would they still exist today? Apes dont seem to have any problems surviving in a variety of places

I dont know if you guys are familiar with Darwins study of the finches on the Gallapagos (sp?) islands but when on separate land forms the finches beaks varied in size relating to the seeds it ate on that particular island.

Perhaps a group of apes were separated by a landform (ex. body of water, mountain range) and when one group stayed ape and didnt change genetically, the other group did change either by adapting to different environment or just by passing a genetic mutation.

what you are describing is a variation within a species, but not and actual NEW species, which is what is required to believe that man evolved from an ape-like homined ancestor.

 

[valley]

Nice grave digging Biker -_-. This thread is over 2 years old.

lol..is it? :eek I must learn to take note of dates in the future when I reply to any of the quote from the first page. :ninja

 

[Mase]

If we evolved from monkeys, there wouldn't be any monkeys today.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Well, I know Alien Allen and Lumpenstein started the process, but they are more Monkey than human!!! :24::24::24:

 

[triglad]

If we evolved from monkeys, there wouldn't be any monkeys today.

Thats absurd! natural selection works in the way that the fittest survive therefore evolve, so just because in one "gang" of monkeys in one environment needed to evolve to survive in their environment, doesn't mean another "gang" did. Ergo some survive as just monkeys.

Have you ever read charles darwins theory of evolution or do you just dismiss the concept cos you don't want to believe it??

 

[Mase]

Thats absurd! natural selection works in the way that the fittest survive therefore evolve, so just because in one "gang" of monkeys in one environment needed to evolve to survive in their environment, doesn't mean another "gang" did. Ergo some survive as just monkeys.

Have you ever read charles darwins theory of evolution or do you just dismiss the concept cos you don't want to believe it??

I was joking. I believe in darwin's theory.

 

[SgtSpike]

Do any of you know that Darwin rejected his own theory of evolution a few years after he wrote it?

Seems a little fishy to me...

 

[triglad]

Do any of you know that Darwin rejected his own theory of evolution a few years after he wrote it?

Seems a little fishy to me...

Ever heard of science, thats kinda what we do. Make theorys then improve upon them with new theory's

 

[Speeding Biker]

Lol well it was on the top... Shows how much this section gets used.

I still cant help but wonder if we ever did evolve.. Look at us back then.. and look at us now.. That's not going forward as far as I can tell!

 

[siasl]

If we evolved from monkeys, there wouldn't be any monkeys today.

:surrender

so then....if we were created by the hand of god, there wouldn't be any gods today?

 

[Hans]

i did a report on this in biology

its not certain if humans evolved from apes , however there is 98% DNA match between humans and chimps

the big question that might hinder one from saying evolution took place is because evolution usually takes place when a species is not as adapted to its environment and the evolution must occur to ensure survival, if there was really a flaw in the genetic design in apes then why would they still exist today? Apes dont seem to have any problems surviving in a variety of places

the only way i can think of humans evolving from apes would be if there was some sort of genetic divergence, mutation or land separation between a group of apes

I dont know if you guys are familiar with Darwins study of the finches on the Gallapagos (sp?) islands but when on separate land forms the finches beaks varied in size relating to the seeds it ate on that particular island.

Perhaps a group of apes were separated by a landform (ex. body of water, mountain range) and when one group stayed ape and didnt change genetically, the other group did change either by adapting to different environment or just by passing a genetic mutation.

DNA sequences between humans and cows are very close to the same(98% maybe?). humans and bananas are either 50/75% identical also.

the only thing that really establishes identity in DNA is in a persons Tandem repeats. Feel free to look it up.

As for evolution, theres no way to be certain yet.

If we evolved from monkeys, there wouldn't be any monkeys today.

This is also false. DNA mutations (not always negitive, mutations in genral) usually occur with enviromental change. If there is no need to adapt, there is no mutation. If there is a need to adapt, beings will evovle, mutate, and adjust to survive. Simple darwinism.

 

[All Else Failed]

Humans didn't evolve directly from "monkeys". We evolved separately as distant cousins.

 

[Sam]

A big NO .....

 

[CaseHD]

Genetics tells us yes

You know, the same genetics that explains countless human diseases, is pretty much the foundation of modern medicine, allows the police to identify the criminal with substantial evidence, allows a single mother to prove the baby's yours, explains why the baby looks like you, etc etc.

And like it was previously stated, we didn't come from monkeys, they were another branch of common ancestor. Just like how birds and dinosaurs were two different branches of a common ancestor of reptile.

 

[CaseHD]

and darwin may have refuted a part of his theory, but thats because it wasn't complete. He knew nothing of genetics. It took other scientists like mendel to complete the picture. So its easy to refute one man, but to refute the evidence of evolution you'd have to refute countless other great scientists as well.

 

[SgtSpike]

and darwin may have refuted a part of his theory, but thats because it wasn't complete. He knew nothing of genetics. It took other scientists like mendel to complete the picture. So its easy to refute one man, but to refute the evidence of evolution you'd have to refute countless other great scientists as well.

But only by leaning on the word of countless other great scientists.

 

[Ryder]

i did a report on this in biology

its not certain if humans evolved from apes , however there is 98% DNA match between humans and chimps

the big question that might hinder one from saying evolution took place is because evolution usually takes place when a species is not as adapted to its environment and the evolution must occur to ensure survival, if there was really a flaw in the genetic design in apes then why would they still exist today? Apes dont seem to have any problems surviving in a variety of places

the only way i can think of humans evolving from apes would be if there was some sort of genetic divergence, mutation or land separation between a group of apes

I dont know if you guys are familiar with Darwins study of the finches on the Gallapagos (sp?) islands but when on separate land forms the finches beaks varied in size relating to the seeds it ate on that particular island.

Perhaps a group of apes were separated by a landform (ex. body of water, mountain range) and when one group stayed ape and didnt change genetically, the other group did change either by adapting to different environment or just by passing a genetic mutation.[/QUOTE

it has to be certian because they share most of our DNA.