People think we evolved from monkeys...WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?
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"People think we evolved from monkeys"
Really? Who would that be? Or did you mean to say that humans and monkeys have a common ancestor?
"WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?"
No one.
I think you're misunderstanding. The Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection does not state that man evolved from monkeys, but that... Oh, you've already stopped reading, haven't you?
I think Dr. Zeus made the monkey.
Or was it Cornelius?
*calls into the courtyard* "General Thade, sir, who made the monkey?"
I'm guessing ... free-floating bits of RNA who found little homes inside a phospholipid bilayer. If the RNA is the right shape, it can form a "ribozyme" which can catalyze its own polymerization, y'know.
WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?
Okay guys, it's all over for the Theory of Evolution. Cutie1415 has found its weakness. It's odd how this has escaped the collective research of the world's most brilliant scientists and was only noticed by some random person on the internet. Oh wait, I forgot that evolution doesn't limit us to only one ancestor and that we can have a whole lineage all the way down to the first lifeforms.
I think you're misunderstanding. The Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection does not state that man evolved from monkeys, but that... Oh, you've already stopped reading, haven't you?
Another monkey.
Who made the other monkey?
You're very clever, young man, but it's monkeys all the way down!
People think we evolved from monkeys...
Way over simplification of evolution. Rather we share a common ancestor with monkeys (as we do with all other animals if we look back far enough.) Though we share a earlier common ancestor with the other great apes, like gorillas.
WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?
Nobody, they evolved from a common ancestor like we did.
WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?
Why, the king of all kings, of course - King Kong!
I think an invisible being, a supernatural God, made me in His image, from dust, or possibly slugs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails. Although, unlike Him, I'm not invisible, but I'm what the invisible being would look like if He was visible. And indeed, if I was invisible, then I wouldn't look exactly like Him. It'd be hard to tell us apart.
Here's another idiot who says that evolution
I say, "Learn what you're talking about before
Why, Monkey, the lord of all monkeys of course!
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...(whistfully sings) born from an egg on a mountain top...
First off, we evolved from an ape-like ancestor which we share with modern apes, and an even more distant ancestor that we share with all primates. Secondly, that ancestor evolved from another species, which in turn evolved from another species, all the way back to the first bits of self-replicating RNA of roughly 4 billion years ago.
No-one, of course. It evolved from some monkey-like species, which evolved from some less monkey-like species, which evolved from some even less monkey-like species.
Oh, and well-informed people do not think we evolved from monkeys. We did have a common ancestor, a million years ago or so.
I think it's been mentioned before but I have a strong feeling that 'cutie1415' genuiniely thought this was the smartest thing anyone had ever said, and was a question missed by even the most clever of biologists.
That's the sad part really
We (apes) share a common ancestor with the "Old World" monkeys from 20 million years ago. We and they share a common ancestor with the "New World" monkeys from 40 millions years ago.
Just absorb those figures a minute.
The New and Old World monkeys went their separate ways 20 million years before the apes broke from the OWMs. Which of these scenarios is more plausible?
1) The non-monkeys of 40 million years ago separated into two non-monkey groups that some 20 million years later spontaneously and unrelatedly developed the same set of monkey characteristics on opposite sides of the world but only after another group of non-monkeys had split off to form the apes.
2) The two monkey lines share the characteristic traits of "monkeyness" despite their geographical separation because these traits were already present in their common ancestral species. Apes later split from one of these monkey lines.
Unless you specifically define "monkey" to exclude any primate ancestor of the modern apes, the common ancestor of apes and monkeys was already a monkey. The theory of evolution includes the concept of common descent, and all evidence points to our common descent with monkeys coming from an ancestor that itself shares common descent with other monkeys.
We are
(c.f Rendezvous 6 in Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale .)
Man.... I'd want to see the look of incredulity if you told her she shared a common ancestor with hamsters/ginko trees/coral/algae/bacteria etc. etc.
Yes, yes. I must support this bacteria monkey theory!
ALL THE WAY DOWN...
It's pedantic at best to say "we didn't evolve from monkeys, just a common ancestor".
Our immediate ape-like primate ancestors evolved from earlier primates that at one stage would almost certainly be classified as monkeys if they were still alive today.
So there's nothing wrong with saying "we evolved from monkeys". Throw it in the fundies faces. MONKEY PRIDE.
Well, I have talked to some who thought that the theory of evolution stated that we evolved frm MODERN monkeys. That is in effect, what I assume creationists mean they say things lke "People think we evolved from monkeys...WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?"
My guess is that this poster has no idea of common ancestors and suchlike, so the point we are not descended from modern monkeys is still relevant
"In the beginning there were sea monkeys..."
Sorry, I watched a South Park episode recently.
http://www.allsp.com/
Pick Season 6, "The Simpsons Already Did It"
"People think we evolved from monkeys...WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?"
And you fundies think we were created by a 'God'. Who do you think made God?
@aaa
"A horde of protomonkeys with advanced technology?"
Thanks. I now have the image in my mind of a cross-between "Macross" and "Planet of the Apes", with a simian version of the Zentraedi. 80 ft tall apes? They'd make King Kong look a wuss.
@Tolpuddle Martyr
"Why, Monkey, the lord of all monkeys of course!"
"Monkey", a.k.a. "Journey to the West", was good for a laugh, but my favourite was "The Water Margin" (Just as I like the anime versions of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" legend, "Ikkitousen" and "Koihime Musou").
"In the beginning, we were all fish. Okay? Swimming around in the water. And then one day a couple of fish had a retard baby, and the retard baby was different, so it got to live. So Retard Fish goes on to make more retard babies, and then one day, a retard baby fish crawled out of the ocean with its...mutant fish hands... and it had butt sex with a squirrel or something and made this retard frog-sqirrel, and then *that* had a retard baby which was a... monkey-fish-frog... And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant retard baby that screwed another monkey... and that made you! So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!" - Mrs. Garrison, South Park Elementary.
There. Hope that clears things up. It's from a cartoon teacher, so it's not only written down, it's animated! That trumps your storybook, I think.
We evolved from apes, not monkeys. There's a difference.
And what do you mean "Who made the monkey?" Obviously the monkeys evolved, like everything else. Duh.
It has to be said:
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?!
Actually we didn't evolve from modern monkeys, humans and modern monkeys share a common ancestor.
And as for the question you actually asked, monkeys evolved from some other creature which is now extinct.
@#1129680
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE! IT WAS NOT FUCKING MONKEYS!!
I realize I'm commenting on this over a year later (hey, I'm bored, okay?), but I have to say, given some of the other comments on this thread regarding the origin of monkeys, I have to say, yes. Yes it was...
By your logic, or lack thereof, once all the regressive questions have been answered, you will have to answer for God's formation, without the benefit of the Bible. Perhaps you would like to reconsider your foolishness, cutie?
WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE MONKEY?
Primates (the biological order that includes both humans and monkeys) evolved from this cute little mammal:
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For starters on human evolution, Wikipedia has a quite good page called "Timeline of Human Evolution", showing our evolutionary timeline from the first life until today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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