Comments on: If We Evolved From Apes – Why Do Apes Still Exist? https://conradaskland.com/blog/if-we-evolved-from-apes-why-do-apes-still-exist/ Music Director and Music Technology Wed, 02 May 2007 03:39:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/if-we-evolved-from-apes-why-do-apes-still-exist/#comment-19633 Wed, 02 May 2007 03:39:25 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/03/if-we-evolved-from-apes-why-do-apes-still-exist/#comment-19633 t all apes evolve”, then they should make this argument, rather than the stupid "why are the still apes" argument. In either case, a better option is simply to point out that not only are other apes just as 'evolved' from the common ancestor as us, but only a small population in a small area encountered an environment that pushed them towards homo-sapiens. Response #2 - And no more do we say that humans evolved from modern apes. The shared ancestor of humans and chimps/bonobos was certainly an animal which we would classify as an ape, though, as Creationists (and some of us evolutionists) are fond of pointing out when someone tries to say "but we aren't descended from apes, we share an ancestor with apes". The analogy is perfectly valid.]]> Response #1 – I think that the analogy is fine, except with maybe a minor difference. I’d put it like this:

“If Americans descended from Europeans, why are there still Australians?”

If the argument is: “if Apes were forced to evolve, why didn’t all apes evolve”, then they should make this argument, rather than the stupid “why are the still apes” argument.

In either case, a better option is simply to point out that not only are other apes just as ‘evolved’ from the common ancestor as us, but only a small population in a small area encountered an environment that pushed them towards homo-sapiens.

Response #2 – And no more do we say that humans evolved from modern apes. The shared ancestor of humans and chimps/bonobos was certainly an animal which we would classify as an ape, though, as Creationists (and some of us evolutionists) are fond of pointing out when someone tries to say “but we aren’t descended from apes, we share an ancestor with apes”. The analogy is perfectly valid.

]]> By: Teefey https://conradaskland.com/blog/if-we-evolved-from-apes-why-do-apes-still-exist/#comment-19511 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:42:37 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/03/if-we-evolved-from-apes-why-do-apes-still-exist/#comment-19511 ” the question is similiar to “If my cousins and I have the same great great great great great grandparents, why do I still have cousins?” or “If Americans descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans?” ”

The parallel is wrong. Your cousins are humans. In other words, your cousins are the exact same species. Europeans are human. Europeans are the same species. The argument dealing with evolution is much different. The argument is “if Apes were forced to evolve, why didn’t all apes evolve.” No one ever makes the argument that your cousins ‘evolved’ into you.

Scientists utilize the unknown species in determining that apes and humans split from the unknown. You would be much wiser in simply stating that scientists do not believe that humans directly descended from present day apes. You error in making analogies that simply do not work.

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