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If man evolved from monkeys,.....
- Thread starter GodInUs
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The idea as I recall is we didn't evolve from monkeys. We evolved from a common ancestor. Apes/monkeys evolved along their own evolutionary branch.
Skwim
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I have an idea he's being facetious. Very few Christians haul this one out any more. Although. . . . . . . . .
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Altfish
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We have a separate section for argument about this to keep creation/evolution arguments from breaking out all over the forum. If its a joke it belongs in the jokes area.
It USE to be monkeys, then it was apes, then it was orangutans and then it was a common ancestor as @Skwim noted.
Personally, I think it is ALL monkey business.
But some people still hold on to that they are a monkey's uncle. 
Evolution is not a guided process with intent of removing its intermediate steps.
As noted, the current monkeys are not identical to our common ancestors. But beyond that, it is not surprising that populations that are well adapted to their ecological niches remain fairly stable for many generations.
We diverged from other apes because we found environments where such differentiation proved advantageous. We are apes still.
I should warn you as one who is new, & might be serious....
This question is a very old one which has been answered
so often that it's become widely mocked.
The simple answer.....
Monkeys, apes, & humans each fill a particular environmental niche.
The same is true of diverse finches, ie, springing from one, each
exploits different food sources.
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Mod's please place this in the joke section
Let's first see if the mockery is replaced with discussion.hahahaha... hahahahaha.... hahahahaha... HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Mod's please place this in the joke section
All the evidence indicates that we share a common ancestry with other apes including bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. There is no expectation that an ancestral species must die off upon the origination of a new species. Many sister species exist simultaneously in this world now. The idea that ancestors must die out may be a confusion over the findings of the fossil record or some artifact of history that remains in the popular mind.
Keep in mind that ones parents did not have to die off so that they could exist.
The joke is in the OP, as a matter of fact.hahahaha... hahahahaha.... hahahahaha... HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Mod's please place this in the joke section
@Revoltingest is quite correct. That particular piece in the OP is at this point quite tired and has no bite whatsoever.
I forced myself to take the high road in my answer as best I could.
But still, if someone wants to discuss it instead of joining an old thread....
Here we all go again.
It just the reality that to say that we came from a common ancestor makes the statement quite racist as it was stated in the old thread
"Racist" to have a common ancestor?It just the reality that to say that we came from a common ancestor makes the statement quite racist as it was stated in the old thread
Praytell how?
Could you elaborate or link this older thread?It just the reality that to say that we came from a common ancestor makes the statement quite racist as it was stated in the old thread
Uh what?It just the reality that to say that we came from a common ancestor makes the statement quite racist as it was stated in the old thread