[maine-iac7]

If we evolved from apes - how come we still HAVE apes?

I have never yet found an evolutionist who could answer that/ Indeed it usually renders them slack jawed and speechless.

Try it. It's fun.

[goodusername]

“I have never yet found an evolutionist who could answer that/ Indeed it usually renders them slack jawed and speechless.”

—Amazing - that sounds exactly like the reaction I get whenever I ask Creationists how Moses was able to fit two of every animal aboard the Ark of the Covenant!

[20yearvet]

Because some apes were smart enuff not to evolve!

[LogicWings]

"If we evolved from apes - how come we still HAVE apes?"

Evolution doesn't hold we evolved from apes, so either the "evolutionists" you asked this question were utterly ignorant on the subject or they were of the same general level of intelligence as yourself.

(Notice I didn't assert that you lied about ever having actually asked anyone this question.)

[gleeaikin]

We still have apes because evolution is caused by spontaneous favorable mutations. Mutations occur in individuals. If the individual competes successfully the mutation is passed on to the offspring. Meanwhile all the others that did NOT get the mutation continue on in their own separate path. For example the white skin mutation that occurred about 30 or 40,000 years ago in dark africans moving north enabled the “white” person’s offspring to live successfully in more northern areas eventually superceding the Neanderthals. Why? Because white skin absorbs vitamin D better, making better pelvic bone structure, and facilitating childbirth.

I am not slack jawed and speechless!!