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Why are there still Monkeys?

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Aman777

Bible Believer
Triumphant_Loser said:
You have been refuted... On multiple occasions. You just ignore the evidence we've given, and then say we haven't given any. Also...Prove I'm not a descendant of shape shifting martian unicorns. Should be easy for your "highly educated" mind.
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Dear Triumphant, Sure. You are NOT a shape shifting martian unicorns because there is no such creature. You are a human, and you are exactly the same physically as prehistoric man was BEFORE Noah arrived and brought the Human intelligence of Adam to this world. I know this because NO animal posts. ONLY Humans, with Adam's unique Human intelligence, post. Gotcha. God Bless you.

In Love,
Aman
 
Mycroft

Mycroft

Ministry of Serendipity
My beautiful thread about science.

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Bunyip

Bunyip

pro scapegoat
Aman777

Of course nobody can refute you buddy - you are immune to reason, logic and fact.
 
outhouse

outhouse

Atheistically
Aman777 said:
Noah arrived and brought the Human intelligence
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Lets work with facts, not your biased opinion.

IAP - IAP Statement on the Teaching of Evolution

We agree that the following evidence-based facts about the origins and evolution of the Earth and of life on this planet have been established by numerous observations and independently derived experimental results from a multitude of scientific disciplines. Even if there are still many open questions about the precise details of evolutionary change, scientific evidence has never contradicted these results:
•In a universe that has evolved towards its present configuration for some 11 to 15 billion years, our Earth formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago.
•Since its formation, the Earth – its geology and its environments – has changed under the effect of numerous physical and chemical forces and continues to do so.
•Life appeared on Earth at least 2.5 billion years ago. The evolution, soon after, of photosynthetic organisms enabled, from at least 2 billion years ago, the slow transformation of the atmosphere to one containing substantial quantities of oxygen. In addition to the release of the oxygen that we breathe, the process of photosynthesis is the ultimate source of fixed energy and food upon which human life on the planet depends.
•Since its first appearance on Earth, life has taken many forms, all of which continue to evolve, in ways which palaeontology and the modern biological and biochemical sciences are describing and independently confirming with increasing precision. Commonalities in the structure of the genetic code of all organisms living today, including humans, clearly indicate their common primordial origin
 
Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
idav said:
Man being "formed of the dust of the ground" just spells magic not science. We are all star dust sure, that evolved intelligence but didn't happen magically in one day.
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Yeah....even you came from the ground....back to it you will go.

Evolved or not...
Someone, somewhere, took a step forward while saying ...I AM!

At some 'point'....Man took on the reflection of his Creator.

Someone had to be first.
The name given is Adam.
 
Mycroft

Mycroft

Ministry of Serendipity
FearGod said:
How that is compared to humans and monkeys ?
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It follows from the misinterpretation of evolution as a linear process: an upward-sloping line, like the old, pre-scientific idea of a "Great Chain of Being". This is a simple way of viewing evolution and changes are easily visualized in a linear fashion — the famous picture of human ancestors walking behind each other is a prime example. However, this traces just one twig of a much more complicated tree of life. If that could be said of monkeys, then it could be said of Africans, since all human beings are descended from Africans.

Buuuuuuuuuuut it doesn't work like that.

Because of all this:


  • Evolution is the change in populations, not in individuals.
  • Evolution is not a process in which species universally progress up a "ladder".
  • Humans are not descended from any modern species of monkey; both monkeys and humans are descended from some long-extinct ancestor pre-dating both. Although this species, if it were transferred to today, would be considered a "monkey", it is not any living species of monkey.
  • Evolution explains how humans developed from a primate ancestor, but not an extant species of monkey or ape. (Modern primates include: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, baboons, macaques, lemurs, gibbons, and humans. None of these is a descendant of any other.)
  • Speciation can occur by branching into two or more reproductively isolated populations (cladogenesis) or when a single population changes over time to such an extent that the later population is considered a different species (anagenesis).
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
TheScholar said:
Even the Jews that wrote that though of it as inter-textual and metaphoric. It didn't become the "literal" creation story until later Christians started to claim so.
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Overstated. We have been all over the spectrum on this historically, but there's no doubt that viewing these accounts as being allegory is much more common today.
 
idav

idav

Being
Premium Member
FearGod said:
How that is compared to humans and monkeys ?
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Monkeys have not gone extinct unlike 99% of the species that were ever on this planet. The species you see today managed to find some niche that kept them going despite any divergence that may have occurred during the millions of years of evolution. In Africa we see something very similar with the dozens upon dozens of various hominids found, most those lineages could not make it, they are obviously part of that 99% I mentioned.
 
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