Autodidact
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I don't know what this incoherent post means, but human beings are a species of ape, so it makes no sense.
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humans evolving from monkeys
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I don't know what this incoherent post means, but human beings are a species of ape, so it makes no sense.
Not to mention, the least sane species of ape.
logician
Well-Known Member
Homo sapiens is turning out to be a very, very detructive species of ape. We destroy habitats, and change envirnoments just for our own whims, regardless of the effects on other species.
Perhaps the reason we have not yet found other intelligent species is that intelligence is self-destructive as far as long term survival is concerned, as an intelligent species cannot control its own emotions enough to prevent eventual catastrophy.
Perhaps the reason we have not yet found other intelligent species is that intelligence is self-destructive as far as long term survival is concerned, as an intelligent species cannot control its own emotions enough to prevent eventual catastrophy.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
I think the combo of intelligence and thumbs is what is dangerous. 
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Sapiens
Polymathematician
Matches do not help.I think the combo of intelligence and thumbs is what is dangerous.
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Monk Of Reason
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We didn't evolve from monkeys. We have a common ancestor. That common ancestor no longer exists. However its offspring do. One of those offspring would be Homo Sapiens. Another is the chimpanzee.
NulliuSINverba
Active Member
First, you'll need to do us all a favor and cite at least one source (that doesn't originate with a creationist "think" tank) which indicates that evolutionists actually believe that humans evolved from monkeys. Please.
And remember that in this context, "think" is being applied in the only the loosest possible sense.
This is a dead giveaway that there are going to be problems. Since when did ignorance or uninformed opinion become a valid point of view?
The boilerplate reply to that hackneyed creationist trope goes like this:
"If Americans are descended from Europeans ... then how come there are there still Europeans?"
Would you please be so kind as to answer that question, splitfangr06?
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The answer is that humans did not evolve from modern monkeys. The current scientifically accepted consensus is that modern humans and modern monkeys all share a common ancestor.
Keep in mind that humans are apes. No doubt about that. Apes with compound interest, but apes nonetheless.
Ever since the split, humans have been busy evolving into better humans and monkeys have been busy evolving into better monkeys.
Blackmarch
W'rkncacntr
because of all the characteristics we have in common.
as for the reason why they are still around...
for similar reasons that there are still model T fords that are being driven, even when there are much more evolved cars that are being used.
See here.
Blackmarch
W'rkncacntr
or replace the term monkeys with neanderthals, lemurs or whatever other proto simian species you want to use.
Stop while you're behind. You're embarrassing yourself.
Blackmarch
W'rkncacntr
News to me.
McBell
Unbound
No doubt in my mind it is news to you.
Ar you not embarrassed?
You should be.
That you are not is a strong indication you are in way over your head.
Dunning-Kruger effect ...
We did not evolve from monkeys. I will spell this out for you, as if you were a child.
Monkeys, gorillas, us, neanderthals and so on evolved from a common ancestor way back in our line. Much like how you & I, if we go far enough back, share an ancestor somewhere, somehow, despite the fact that you are making me now question it.
Blackmarch
W'rkncacntr
look if you were able to take a live specimen of australopethicus amenicus and show it to an average joe, how would he describe how it looked? pretty sure that something along the lines of ape, monkey, or chimp would be in the description.
And i'm pretty sure the reasons why trait divergence (and convergence) occurs still are used. or did natural selection theory get a big update or go out the window?
Or is there some hangup with a lack of finding bridge species going on here, that i'm missing?
now the op didn't strike me as requesting very technical info. but really similar to the "OMG humans are related to other critters, how does that even work?!?!?!?" shock type questions. Perhaps i mistook what he was asking for
And iv'e read the link given a few times now. please at least tell me what i'm supposed to be embarrassed about if i have no clue?
And i'm pretty sure the reasons why trait divergence (and convergence) occurs still are used. or did natural selection theory get a big update or go out the window?
Or is there some hangup with a lack of finding bridge species going on here, that i'm missing?
now the op didn't strike me as requesting very technical info. but really similar to the "OMG humans are related to other critters, how does that even work?!?!?!?" shock type questions. Perhaps i mistook what he was asking for
And iv'e read the link given a few times now. please at least tell me what i'm supposed to be embarrassed about if i have no clue?
That 'hangup' does not exist. We have plenty of bridge species. The evidence is there, the problem is your understanding of it.
gnostic
The Lost One
We have more closer common ancestry with apes, NOT MONKEYS!
Chimpanzees, gorillas and few others are not monkeys; they are apes.
Humans and apes have to go back further in time to find their common ancestry to monkeys.
Zoology 101: apes and monkeys belonged to different specie groupings, and more distantly related.
Midnight Rain
Well-Known Member
I assume this is trolling. Did you google the answer before posting this thread?
In the off chance you aren't.... we didn't evolve from any monkeys that currently live today. We share a common ancestor with them. You came from your parents. so did your siblings. You and your siblings share a common ancestor. But you are not descended from your siblings.