Do You Believe We Came From Monkeys?

[Eloy]

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.

When I read some of the posts here, I do wonder.

 

[Old Rocks]

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?

Now that is a question worthy of a second grade student, one slightly retarded. And you obviously do not understand the meaning of 'Theory' in science.

scientific theory

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noun
1.
a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of factsor phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed throughexperiment or observation:
the scientific theory of evolution.

the definition of scientific theory

 

[Old Rocks]

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?

Humans, Orangs, Gorillas, Chimps, we've all been evolving in parallel.

Soooo.....we just got there first?

Got where first? Do you think that the development of reason is the aim of evolution? Evolution has no direction. It is life's reactions to environment. When intellect works, it will be developed. When something else works for that environment, that will be developed.

 

[Old Rocks]

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?

I've asked the same question a number of times and never got an answer.

LOL I bet you did. LOL

 

[Old Rocks]

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.

Does anyone believe that?

It seems that christians believe men sprang from nothing and women sprang from a man's rib.

Pretty silly, I know but what is it you believe? And why did you write the post?

I believe we all came from West Virginia and Kentucky.

Then we are doomed. LOL

 

[Old Rocks]

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?

And if we descended from an ape, why are there still apes?

The apes we descended from are no more.

The apes never existed.

And every time they think they've found *evidence* that we are *evolved* from some non-human creature, it is debunked.

Flores Man ‘hobbits’ found in Indonesia were NOT our human relatives, scientists confirm

LOL Silly ass, the hobbit is related to us, through our ancestor, Homo Erectus. We are distant cousins.

 

[Old Rocks]

But then, if we came from monkeys, why aren't monkeys still turning into people?

Given a long enough period of time and environmental stresses, they'd turn into something.
Maybe not something as smart as humans....maybe only liberals.

So Todd, these are your peers you are arguing with. They are also dyed in the wool 'Conservatives'. LOL

 

[Old Rocks]

Check out the book I posted.

LOL Why? What would I learn from crackpot shit like that? Have enough trouble trying to keep up with real scientists, without taking time out for obvious crackpots.

 

[Unkotare]

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.

Evolution is not based on the notion that "we came from monkeys."

 

[Unkotare]

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

Of course it does.

 

[sealybobo]

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.

How did seals and cats start on planet earth?

 

[sealybobo]

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

Pick any three land creatures. Pig frog dog.

How do you think the first ones started?

 

[sealybobo]

"Do You Believe We Came From Monkeys?"
Monkeys? No. Non-monkey primates? Yes.

In the Science & Technology subforum, that's the question you posed to us as you posed it? Why? (And I don't mean "why" this particular subforum.)

Do you know that our species of ape may not even have been the most intelligent? But our species murdered that species. Wiped them out. We have a little of them in us. What is that redhead gene?

 

[sealybobo]

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?

Why are their so many species of dogs?

 

[SYTFE]

But then, if we came from monkeys, why aren't monkeys still turning into people?

They are, take a look in the mirror.

 

[Divine Wind]

We didn't. We evolved from a common ancestor.

Correct, as genes prove in our similarity.

 

[edthecynic]

There are no monkeys in your fake image? Do you even know what you're doing?

Yes there are, the last 2., especially the last one!

 

[IsaacNewton]

We share 99% DNA with the apes. The apes have 48 chromosomes, we have 46. Read up on telomeres on why that is.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

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.

Actually, the theory of evolution does not contend we are direct descendant from monkeys, but rather we share a common ancestry. And yes, i do subscribe to the theory of evolution.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

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.

I hate when I have to agree with Mathew. But he got this one right.