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If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes ?
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Just curious. I don't get why some would slowly evolve in to humans but not all. You don't still see Giraffes with small necks, when supposedly they evolved to longer necks to eat from trees.
Also I am agnostic, and often hear of people saying how much of a genius Darwin is for his evolution theory, but atheists don't seem open minded enough to consider that perhaps a God of some kind actually could have created evolution. At the end of the day, none of us know for sure how we got here, and how the first particle was created, if a God or supreme being didn't create us then something still must have created the first speck of dust or soil or earth or whatever. Where is evolution supposedly meant to have begun ?
Also I am agnostic, and often hear of people saying how much of a genius Darwin is for his evolution theory, but atheists don't seem open minded enough to consider that perhaps a God of some kind actually could have created evolution. At the end of the day, none of us know for sure how we got here, and how the first particle was created, if a God or supreme being didn't create us then something still must have created the first speck of dust or soil or earth or whatever. Where is evolution supposedly meant to have begun ?
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If 'something' did you have only posed the next question; who/what created that 'something'.?
Okay, that is true, I agree, but I still can't see how evolution evolved from nothing too then. This is why I choose to be agnostic, nothing seems plausible.
Evolution didn't evolve from nothing.
If you are talking about the big bang, well many scientists don't subscribe to the something from nothing belief, they believe that something must have been there before, although they have no idea what. There are competing theories about what could have been in existence before the big bang.
Nothing wrong with being agnostic but In that case you now have two questions rather than an answer; what/how/who is God and what/how etc is the Universe.
We don't know how some (relatively) basic particles came to be and reacted to cause the big bang...so the default is that something even more complicated existed before (God).
Not to stupid people.
Darwin was a christian
,,,,,,chuck norris said '' say please''
Right, and I guess OKAPI are just a figment of my imagination. ;-)
TBH, I have no idea about the genetics of Giraffes but I'd bet there are a few animals around which share the same genetic heritage as Giraffes, just as we share the same genetic heritage as apes, from whatever was our common ancestor.
Apes didn't turn into humans.
What happened was that some kind of proto-ape evolved into humans and into modern apes.
In just the same was as some kind of proto-Akapi spawned modern Okapi and Giraffes.
Don't have any problem with this at all.
IIRC, I don't think Darwin did either.
If you adopt this sort of attitude there's no reason why atheists and religious types need to argue about evolution at all.
Trouble is, some hard-headed god-botherers insist on clinging to the whole "god created man in his image" thing, which forces them to deny the theory of evolution cos it'd mean either the bible was lying or that god was some kind of proto-ape and we've evolved into something "better than god" and neither of those possibilities would ever do, so they're forced to insist that we, and everything else, haven't actually evolved at all.
And make themselves look a bit silly in the process.
*sigh*
They also say they are still looking for the missing link...I still reckon I married into that family
(yet another disguised religion thread !)
god created a giant food chain with bigger animals killing and eating smaller ones all the way down to microbes. how wise. how noble. how loving.
well there were those p g tips tea party ads on telly. these stopped because the monkeys complained ......