Do You Believe We Came From Monkeys?

[sealybobo]

No chance. Evolution may account for the differences within a species, but it does not account for new species.

Species count put at 8.7 million. The natural world contains about 8.7 million species, according to a new estimate described by scientists as the most accurate ever. But the vast majority have not been identified - and cataloguing them all could take more than 1,000 years.

More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billionspecies, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.

You think god poofed 8.7 million species into existence? Actually, x that by 99%. So you think god poofed them all into being?

 

[Indeependent]

I know there are similarities but I think they are coincidental, like cats and seals both have whiskers. But cats didn't come from seals or vice a versa.

Scientists estimate that the hominid lineage diverged from the ape lineage 5 to 8 million years ago. Homo sapiens, the species to which we belong, has existed for about 100,000 years.

Like they estimate the weather?...every day 10 minutes?

 

[MikeK]

Scientists now believe between 5-8 million years ago, we were ******* monkeys. Then something went horribly wrong or incredibly right depending on how you look at things.

I think the planet would be better off had we stayed monkeys. Every other animal would be happier except dogs and cats of course.

I will agree but with one exception -- that of eliminating the chimpanzee, which is the direct progenitor of humankind from whom we have inherited all of our most destructive, exploitative, homicidal characteristics. The chimp is a mean, nasty, murderous monkey who is inclined to cannabilism -- for the hell of it, not by necessity.

 

[Syriusly]

I know there are similarities but I think they are coincidental, like cats and seals both have whiskers. But cats didn't come from seals or vice a versa.

Why would anyone believe we came from monkeys?

There is no science that supports that.

Maybe some whacko Creationist theory?

 

[MikeK]

Why would anyone believe we came from monkeys?

There is no science that supports that.

Maybe some whacko Creationist theory?

You are free to believe or not believe anything you choose to.

 

[Syriusly]

Why would anyone believe we came from monkeys?

There is no science that supports that.

Maybe some whacko Creationist theory?

You are free to believe or not believe anything you choose to.

Why thank you!

I will believe the science that is supported by the known facts.

Which ain't we came from monkeys or that some fairy in the sky poofed us into existence.

You of course can believe or not believe anything you choose to. What do you believe in?

 

[sealybobo]

Why would anyone believe we came from monkeys?

There is no science that supports that.

Maybe some whacko Creationist theory?

You are free to believe or not believe anything you choose to.

Why thank you!

I will believe the science that is supported by the known facts.

Which ain't we came from monkeys or that some fairy in the sky poofed us into existence.

You of course can believe or not believe anything you choose to. What do you believe in?

We are cousins with monkeys. We have a common ancestor. It split into arangatan, apes, baboons or bonobos and humans.

 

[Syriusly]

Why would anyone believe we came from monkeys?

There is no science that supports that.

Maybe some whacko Creationist theory?

You are free to believe or not believe anything you choose to.

Why thank you!

I will believe the science that is supported by the known facts.

Which ain't we came from monkeys or that some fairy in the sky poofed us into existence.

You of course can believe or not believe anything you choose to. What do you believe in?

We are cousins with monkeys. We have a common ancestor. It split into arangatan, apes, baboons or bonobos and humans.

 

[MikeK]

You of course can believe or not believe anything you choose to. What do you believe in?

Darwinian evolution. Its logic is irrefutable.

 

[LTCArmyRet]

No chance. Evolution may account for the differences within a species, but it does not account for new species.

Species count put at 8.7 million. The natural world contains about 8.7 million species, according to a new estimate described by scientists as the most accurate ever. But the vast majority have not been identified - and cataloguing them all could take more than 1,000 years.

More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billionspecies, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.

You think god poofed 8.7 million species into existence? Actually, x that by 99%. So you think god poofed them all into being?

yes

 

[sealybobo]

Scientists now believe between 5-8 million years ago, we were ******* monkeys. Then something went horribly wrong or incredibly right depending on how you look at things.

I think the planet would be better off had we stayed monkeys. Every other animal would be happier except dogs and cats of course.

I will agree but with one exception -- that of eliminating the chimpanzee, which is the direct progenitor of humankind from whom we have inherited all of our most destructive, exploitative, homicidal characteristics. The chimp is a mean, nasty, murderous monkey who is inclined to cannabilism -- for the hell of it, not by necessity.

So are we. Their called serial killers. There’s only 1% separating us from them.

Imagine a species on another planet that’s 1% smarter than us. Their babies would do quantum physics for fun

 

[IsaacNewton]

We're primates that developed from a common ancestor 5-7 million years ago that yes was an ape.

That is a fact....The evidence is very strong.

Not a fact, it is a theory, big difference. And if we descended from an ape, why are there still apes?

So your defense of your beliefs is your own ignorance of this?

 

[RWS]

Humans evolved from Howler Monkeys. It's a known fact.

 

[Political Junky]

No scientist has said we descended from apes.

 

[MikeK]

No scientist has said we descended from apes.

Dr. Charles Darwin was a Naturalist, a Geologist, and a Biologist, and you say he was not a scientist?

 

[Political Junky]

No scientist has said we descended from apes.

Dr. Charles Darwin was a Naturalist, a Geologist, and a Biologist, and you say he was not a scientist?

And Darwin didn't say we descended from apes.

 

[MikeK]

And Darwin didn't say we descended from apes.

I'm sure your local library has a copy of Darwin's. The Descent of Man. You should read it.

 

[Political Junky]

And Darwin didn't say we descended from apes.

I'm sure your local library has a copy of Darwin's. The Descent of Man. You should read it.

I'm quite sure you haven't read it.

 

[RWS]

Well, we are apes. We descended from a branch of the ape tree that led to homo-sapien-sapien. We're just another form of ape. Whether Darwin clearly stated that path or not, I'm not gonna argue. But later scientists have, and it is the accepted path of evolution.

We did not come from monkeys. They are not apes.

 

[fncceo]

Apes and humans have a common ancestor ...

... that lived over 15 million years ago and was decidedly not an ape.