[nevergore]

If we evolved from monkeys....

How come there are still monkeys?

NeverGore :^)

[MineralMan]

"If we evolved from monkeys....

How come there are still monkeys?
"

Probably because creationists don't understand the principles of the theory of evolution.

[PatrickHenry]

I can't over-estimate how important this is. The science-literate posters on this forum have been warning for some time that the dems would use the anti-evolution sentiments of a few activists and attempt to brand the whole conservative movement as a bunch of ignorant, unwashed fools, whose religious views would drag us all back into the Dark Ages.

With this master-stroke of public sanity, the Bush Administration, and thus the whole Republican enterprise, has blunted that issue. The road is clear. We will be the dominant party for the next generation.

God bless America!

[Physicist]

How come there are still monkeys?

Mostly, they're just resting, but I'm afraid some are dead.

[Long Cut]

The TOE does not state that Homo Sapiens evolved from "monkeys". Instead, it DOES state that humans and apes (and ultimately, all life) has a common ancestor. In fact, humans ARE great apes.

[liberateUS]

I read a great analogy of "intelligent design" br Dr. Wayne Dyer recently. He wrote, Imagine a huge junkyard with millions and millions of parts, wires, cables, tires electronic parts, metal scraps, plastic, foam rubber, cloth etc. All of the sudden a great wind arises and the parts all start whirling around and colliding. Just as suddenly the wind subsides. There in the junk yard is a fully assembled 747 ready to fly. It occured as a totally ramdom event, with no creative guidance. Well that's what the evolutionists would have us believe about our perfectly ordered universe, Evolution, yeah right!

[crail]

If we evolved from monkeys....

How come there are still monkeys?

From the Answers in Genesis (Creationist) website, on a page where they recommend against creationists using some of the really stupid arguments.

"‘If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes today?’ In response to this statement, some evolutionists point out that they don’t believe that we descended from apes, but that apes and humans share a common ancestor. However, the evolutionary paleontologist G.G. Simpson had no time for this ‘pussyfooting’, as he called it. He said, ‘In fact, that earlier ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms ape and monkey are defined by popular usage, man’s ancestors were apes or monkeys (or successively both). It is pusillanimous [mean-spirited] if not dishonest for an informed investigator to say otherwise.’

However, the main point against this statement is that many evolutionists believe that a small group of creatures split off from the main group and became reproductively isolated from the main large population, and that most change happened in the small group which can lead to allopatric speciation (a geographically isolated population forming a new species). So there's nothing in evolutionary theory that requires the main group to become extinct. "
Bold mine.

[dmz]

LOL.

Even more basic.

Why are there still FISH?

Is that really your best argument against evolution?

[Labyrinthos]

If we evolved from monkeys....
How come there are still monkeys?

If all humans are direct decendants of Adam and Eve...
Then How come we don't all look alike?

[Twinkie]

Well, the monkeys we see today are in the process of devolving back into whatever it was that they were before they evolved into monkeys. They are just little humans going backwards who are further along down the devolutionary scale. We haven't regressed as quickly as they have, you see. Our ancestors were from another region of the rainforest.

[muir_redwoods]

Because there is still an ecological niche for them. If it disappears, so will they.

[Atlantic Friend]

'If we evolved from monkeys.... How come there are still monkeys?"

In a nutshell, because not every monkey species found itself forced to evolve, and among those who did some failed or proved deadends like puny 'homo africanus' and vegetarian 'homo robustus'.