You evolutionist's: what happened the the creature in the middle between monkeys and people?

Question

Can you people who do not believe G-d please tell me what you think happened to the creature between monkeys and humans. Do you think monkeys and humans were smart enough to survive, but that the creatures in the middle of the evolutionary prosess were just to dumb to make it. Or did evolution just "jump" from monkeys to people. I really seriously want to know what you think happened. Thank you in advance for your answers.

Answer 1

1.  Acceptance of evolution does not preclude belief in God, and vice versa.

2. How do you explain that we have evidence of dinosaurs, yet none exist now?

(I suspect you are posing with this question, but why not have a go?)

Answer 2

There were many variations in the process of evolution. One of the first was Australopithecus, which was the what the famous "Lucy" was. Many of the "in-between" species (not sure if that is the word I should use) were around for millions of years.

This information is all out there for you to educate yourself if you really want to. Many remains have been found documenting the process that occurred over millions of years.

Answer 3

We do not think that people evolved from monkeys, but that monkeys and people share a common ancestor. Monkeys and humans are of the same genus, derive from the same ancestor, yet evolved differently. Evolution is a slow process and never jumped. It took a long time to get from early primate to humans and monkeys. The missing links are the creatures that came before us in the evolutionary chain that have not yet been found. If you have any other questions e-mail me. You can do this through my account.

Answer 4

Please, get educated!

Answer 5

hey, these "creatures" were the envovlement of homo sapiens without them WHERE would we be?? its like a story with a beginning and an end.. no middle to tell us what went on.. but every story has something to say..

Answer 6

If you "really seriously" want to understand evolution well enough to stop making a fool of yourself, do a little reading.  Here's a good place to start:

http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.htm...

Answer 7

Neandrethal Man developed in the midst of the two.  Some people believe that N.M. has disappeared, but I believe that society has caused many so-called 'cavemen' to simply go into hiding.  This explains why there are reclusive people with poor social skills.

Answer 8

Well... there was actually one type primate in the beginning which belonged to the parvorder Catarrhini(Old world Monkeys). From there these primates evolved into to a superfamily called Hominoidea. In this there are two familys- Hylobatidae and Hominidae. Hominidae is the group which humans and apes belong to and Hylobatidae is the group which monkeys belong. So  the creature in the middle has probably evolved into either a type of monkey or us humans. (Come to think of it there is no creature in the middle!!)

Answer 9

I believe that evolution is the way that we see how God "creates", and that "missing links" and such are part of the divine creation that we do not understand.

Secular evolution believers would call those "mutations" that occurred by chance, creating a new species that survived better.

Answer 10

Imagine a small troop of chimp-like primates goes off to some remote niche.  They interbreed with very little outside genetics for a few thousand years.  Eventually they can no longer interbreed with their cousins.  There are only a few hundred or so and they stay fairly isolated for thousands and thousands of years.  There is no way we can expect to find many fossils of an animal with a small population like that.

So they either truned into other primates that are still around or they died out.  That simple.

Think of how many millions upon millions of wildebeest are out there.  Now imagine trying to find the bones of millions of wildebeest?  Not gonna happen.

Answer 11

Your question is very simplistic and uninformed.  There is no "creature" "between" monkeys and people.  Humans and primates evolved from a common ancestor.  Apes branched off into one direction, humans into another.  We evolved over millions of years.  Some earlier humans like Neanderthals were evolutionary dead ends, others continued to evolve into modern humans.  There are some excellent books on the subject, try "Becoming Human" by Ian Tattersall.

Answer 12

The Ry guy was on the right track.  When a portion of a species gets separated from the rest of its kin and then adapts to a new environment, it changes over time.  Eventually the changes will be so great that the two species will not be able to interbreed.  This is how different species form generally.  You cannot look at existing animals and suggest that is what we evolved from.  Take chimps for example.  Chimps are our closest relatives and us split from us 5 to 6 million years ago in the way I explained above.  This chimp human common ancestor was bipedal (two legged) like us but had a chimp sized brain.  The chimp line went on to developer knuckle-walking whereas the human line eventually grew greater intelligence.  It is a misnomer to assume that we are significantly different from other apes such as chimps and gorillas.  In fact we share far more than I am sure you are willing to accept.  I believe these theories are true but I don't suggest there is no god.  I certainly don't know His form or character and I don't think anyone else does either.

Answer 13

Cavemen??? Bigfoot??? Seriously, though i don't believe we evolved from monkeys, but we did evolve from Primitive man. We even evolved from who we were 100, 50, even 10 years ago. Mankind is constantly evolving, we,ourselves go through many evolutions during our lifetimes; always growing, always changing.

So, in a way, maybe Creationists and Evolutionists are both half-right because maybe God or something created Primitave man which,over the course of time, eventually evolved into who we are today.

Answer 14

Take your blinders off, they are all around you!

Answer 15

Every year scientists and archaeologists find humanoid remains that fill in the gap that seemed to exist as little as 15 years ago.

Answer 16

Evolutionist do not believe that people came from monkeys just that life forms evolve and advance as time goes on. In fact we believe that monkeys evolved from a lower life form.Most life forms do not survive but exist for a time then die out as the environment changes. About 90% of the species that have lived no longer exist.

Answer 17

the missing links are Ted haggard and Pat Robertson. eventually they might even evolve into 'Intelligent " life forms

Answer 18

Here, meet our relatives:

Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago

Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago

Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago

Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago

Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago

Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present

Before them, between 5 and 10 million years ago, there was our common ancestor with the apes. This is what is romantically called "The missing link".

So, there are many "creatures" in-between us and other apes.

The creatures in the middle were not things other than humans, they were the humans at the time, they did not just survive, they slowly evolved to become us (note the time scale). Monkeys and apes also evolved but in different directions, according to different selective pressures. It does not necessarily take intelligence to survive, just the adaptation to the specific environment at the time. The different species of cat, from domestic to lion, have different intelligence levels, and different adaptive changes to their environment ; apes are no different.

Answer 19

I'm a Christian who knows that Evolution does not say that humans came from monkey or ape ancenstors. Evolution says that humans and apes have a common ancestor, much like you and your cousins have a common ancestor (your grandparents). Just to make sure you saw that.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

Evolution does not say humans came from monkeys.

So there is no intermediate form between monkeys and humans. There is a form from which humans and monkeys branched off from some time in the distant past, and we have fossil records of  little guys like that. Also, the idea that smarts had something to do with human evolution is a severe misunderstanding of the processes involved. Not that intelligence wasn't important, but the picture is a bit more complicated than that.

Answer 20

We didn't evolve from monkeys.  We share a common ancestor with monkeys.  You did not descend from your cousin; you both descended from your grandparents.  If you want to know how evolution works, read a decent biology book about it.  This is one of those questions that pops up constantly on here and proves nothing but that you didn't pay attention in class.

Answer 21

Please don't confuse apes with monkeys.  I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.  I hope the first link below helps you rephrase your question a little better.  You can find some reference material at the second link, but I don't think you are ready for that.  I wish I could be of more assistance.

Answer 22

homosexuals?

Answer 23

Monkeys are modern creatures.  Our common ancestor lived about 55 million years ago.  If you want to discuss living creatures, the other apes sit between us and monkeys in terms of relatedness with the chimps closest.  Anything closer is a human.

Meet our common ancestor:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

Answer 24

well being a christian, and a student of science, I would like to say te "missing link" was a thought of the past. There never was a missing link, humans evolved from apes. Evolution did not jst jump from monkeys to man. there were gradual differences that amde monkeys more "man like". Eventually creating man that was "ape like".  Please do not be an evangelicall christian who says that if you belive in god you can not believe in evolution, because let me tell you. God created man from the earth, the earliest forms of life were created from the earth. I am not a "theologist" no... I am christian. God could not put in words to a "young" man how life was formed. Its like describing stuff to a child, when they ask a question. How is one to believe something when they know nothing of its nature. Science does not prove god wrong, it only proves the presence of god.