Why Are There Still Apes?

It has been said a million times. Now it has been said a million more times. A brief description on why apes are still around evrn though we "came" from them.

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• Apes
• evolution
• creation
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• paleontology
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• birds
• man
• human

[TheGreenTrain]

Although I'm mostly Creationist, I don't like it when people ask questions such as that because they do understand the others viewpoint on the subject, therefore making the comment null to the debate. It works both ways though. Bottom line should be respect others views on subjects, and if disagreement is in order, do some research on why it would.

Good video.

By the way, that is an interesting picture/painting/poster behind you. Would you put it up on here maybe (if you already haven't) :-)

[tyrantslayer24]

@TheGreenTrain Yeah, Ill put up the picture some way or the other haha.

[thanksforthemessdick]

so you're ANSWERING this question..I'm glad I watched to the end

[gregrutz]

We still have fish too.

[ecidemon1]

There are easier ways to explain it by posing questions easier to grasp of the same concept:

How can there still be British people when the settlers comming to Usa were British?

Or

Assuming you have siblings. How can you be alive at the same time as your brother or your sister?

The answer is the same to the question how can there still be apes around if we evolved from apes

Common ancestry.

[opaldragon75]

don't forget about micro-extinction events (both sudden and gradual type) they can kill off groups of a species. Then there is the point that some species obtain an equilibrium, which halts and delay change with in a species group.

Lastly the off shoot effect, when specie groups expand they often split and move in to new environments which fuels evolution due to the changes of the new environment.

[chobochotch]

Say your great-great grandparents were british and they immigrated to the USA. They have children who are then american and they have childrten who are also american. What is my point? well there are still british people right? There are now american and british, this is not the same concept but it is a good way to demonstrate the point that just because we share a common ancestyry with apes (or briotish people) it doesnt mean that there still wont be apes (or brits)

[chobochotch]

A lot of the confusion comes from a basic misunderstanding of evolution, individual animals do not evolve, populations of animals do. What that means is for speciation to occur a population has to become reproductively isolated from the rest of the species (say on an island or across a mountyain range etc). That isolated population is then free to evolve on its own and the original population will continue to evolve in its own direction. Keep in mind this is happening over vast periods of time

[chobochotch]

Humans are apes. Birds are dinosaurs.

As you said no modern animal has evolved from any other modern animal, they simply share common ancestry

Humans and chimps share a common ancestor (which was an ape) and we are sister species belonging to the great ape clade along witrh gorillas and orangutans, this has been verified through hard and soft tissue morphology along with mtDNA, alu insertions, microsatelite comparison etc etc.

[GWolfV3]

This seems like a very stupid question...oh well, coming from the point of view of knowing too much.

Religious palaeontology! J'accuse! Although I know a catholic palaeontologist :D