vinceair wrote:1 more normal question to atheists.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Specialized groups evolve, not an entire species at once just for the hell of it.
Example:
Mr. Squirrel lives in woods. Mr. Squirrel has a favorite tree where he likes to sit, eating acorns. He is happy. One day, Mr. Squirrel gets chased by a bobcat out of his woodland home, and gets lost. He can't find his way back home. He takes shelter under a large rockpile with an opening just big enough for him to fit in. Mr. Squirrel eats some roots, and thinks to himself "Hey, this isn't too bad. No bobcats down here, and plenty of food." So Mr. Squirrel deccides to stay living there. One day another squirrel arrives in his new home. It was a Ms. Squirrel. She was chased by a bobcat, too. They talk and decide to get married and have lots of babies. So Mr. and Mrs. Squirrel have 5 babies, and they live happily under the rocks, not really coming out too often. They find that they don't really use their tails much anymore, and it's pretty dark so they can't see too well, and also they crouch down alot. But they're happy.
5,000 years later, the descendants of Mr. And Mrs Squirrel, and their children, are still living under the rocks. They have adapted to see better in the dark. Their tails are shorter- almost gone!- due to not using them, and they have a more squat appearance because of the tight quarters under the rocks. This is due to their genes changing over time to adapt to their environment. However, back in the forest- the other squirrels still live in the trees- in the daylight; they eat their acorns, have their long bushy tails, and are pretty much the same as Mr. Squirrel was thousands of years before, before he went to live under the rockpile.
That's all evolution is- except grander things happen on the scale of millions and billions of years. Humans are the "monkeys and apes" that were chased by the bobcat and decided to stay under the rockpile... so to speak. People who argue evolution seem to take that stand, of like "How could we possibly come from a fish??" or whatever. But open your eyes- we're talking over BILLIONS of years. Small changes. Even if a very small change happens every 10,000 years- that is enough time for 1000 small changes every million years. It didn't take an afternoon to turn from "primitive creature A" to "modern animal B". It took primitive creature A 10,000 years to lose 1/2 inch of its tail. Then the next 10,000 years to lose another 1/2 inch. So on and so forth.
I feel the need to close this with "now piss off, you ignorant mouth-breather"... but I won't.
However, I'd like to point out that your arguments should probably mention god, if that's what you believe... not just how stupid someone else's beliefs are. That's not a very christian way to behave.
