Evolution
By Benjaminna
@Benjaminna (300)
United States
May 14, 2008 7:33pm CST
Now, I personally don't beleive in evolution - but I had a question for anyone out there who did. If we evolved from apes and monkeys - why do we still have apes and monkeys here today? Wouldn't all the apes and monkeys now be humans?
3 responses
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
15 May 08
Personally, I believe that God has a scientist's mind. I think intelligent design/evolution is at work. Some strains of apes developed into humans and some didn't get that particular evolutionary departure. That's why we still have the primates.
Oh geez, I don't know where you posted this discussion but if it's in religion I'm probably gonna be virtually assassinated when I say that for God, a day is like a a million or billion years and one life is to Him like less than the blink of an eye. So the 6 days it took Him to create the earth were the beginning till humans began to walk around.
Evolution is a slow process and doesn't always follow a set pattern but I believe in intelligent evolution--a plan for everything. That's why we still have the monkeys and apes and I'm glad we do! This is such a great planet with all the different yet similar life!
@Benjaminna (300)
• United States
15 May 08
Thanks for responding drago54u. I can't remember where I posted this at either - but I don't think it was in religion. (so your safe) I think what you were trying to say is that God's time and our time are two different speeds of time. I've always believed that also.
It does make a little sense that some strands of apes would develop and not others. Thanks for that thought.
@Iconoclast1 (389)
• United States
29 May 08
I agree. I don't see why Creation and evolution have to be mutually exclusive. I have always believed that God created evolution. I don't understand why more people can't grasp this possibility. And when God created the universe in 6 dayd there was no Sun before this so a day would have had no meaning. I find it absolutely plausible that a "day" for God could be a billion years for us mortals.
Also scientists don't claim we evolved from monkeys and apes, but that all primates including us evolved from a common ancestor.
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@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
19 May 08
That's not how evolution works. We never evolved from apes or monkeys. We ARE apes, and we and our primate cousins evolved from from a common ancestor. Furthermore, species don't just go *poof* and disappear whenever another species evolves from them. It is quite possible for a species and the species it evolved from to co-exist.
