Were Adam and Eve monkeys

Answer 1

Opinion

According to The Bible, God created Adam and Eve, full grown. And it is from these two people, our original parents, that we all come. Life appears simple on the surface sometimes, but it is extremely complex.To say that life just 'began', for no reason, with no design and no purpose, is unscientific. Life did not come blindly, from nothing. Life came designed from a powerful, intelligent energy source. If you have design, you have a designer.

Opinion

Human evolution actually spans millions of years. The "Adam and Eve" myth is a story in the bible that was written when no one knew how humans came to be. It was just assumed that humans were created as we see them today. It was much simpler to say that God created Adam and Eve. Of course, this is nonsense and is just part of an old religion. For more, see below.

Humans are primates, just like apes and monkeys. Humans do share many characteristics with chimpanzees, but we did not evolve from chimpanzees. Rather, we both came from a common ancestor, so you might say that humans and chimps are kind of like cousins.

Do a search on the internet for "human evolution" to learn more.

Opinion

Evolution is a more practical way of thinking when it comes to the origin of life. The theory of evolution continues to show impressive and geniune results to scientist trying to figure out life and its mysterious. The belief that god created all life in the universe is nothing but a belief and after thousands of years still has yet to show any credentials or concrete proof solidifying that it is even actually real. One day we will know which one is the truth and until then do research and formulate your own opinion on it

Answer 2

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In Genesis 1:26-27 , God says "let us make man in our image" The word "us" meaning that God at that time created all things through his Son. This is verified for us at Colossians 1:15 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, because by means of him, (Jesus) all other things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things unvisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or aughorities. All other things have been created through him and for him"

I like to look at it this way.... If man evolved from monkeys, whi do we still have monkeys?

i believe that humans came from monkeys because some monkeys look like us humans and the fact that Adam and eve were just made is weird because everyone has parents.. who were Adam and eves parents... it seems impossible that it was god. maybe we came from a type of monkey that is now extinct.

Answer 3

This question stems from a misunderstanding of evolution as well as theology. It is true that our ancestors did evolve from earlier species and that we do share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but that ancestor is believed to have lived seven million years ago. A lot has happened since then!

The immediate ancestor or our own species, Homo sapiens, was Homo erectus, which was sufficiently human in appearance to be identifiable as one of us, but at the same time different. Wherever we choose to fit Adam and Eve, either as Homo sapiens or Homo erectus, they would certainly not be monkeys.

The Christian churches are coming to an accommodation with the scientific fact that the very first humans could not have been Adam and Eve. For example the position of the Catholic Church is that the scientific facts are not disputed, but that Adam and Eve were the first to have souls.

Answer 4

It is no longer possible to avoid the scientific truth that humans evolved, not so much from monkeys, but from a common ancestor. Even the leaders of many Christian denominations concede this fact and try to accommodate science with continuing Christianity.

On almost a monthly basis, scientists publish more material that fills in the details of our ancestral past. Our hominid ancestors evolved from an ancestor common to chimpanzees around seven million years ago. Do we "still have [those] monkeys"? No, but we have humans and chimpanzees.

Answer 5

Tradition states that the first two humans were created directly by God.

Here are some arguments for Creation or against Evolution.

These point to Divine Creation:

• The staggering complexity of every organ and every cell in the human body.
  
• The vastness of our minds and emotions.
  
• The fact that the universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).

• The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.
  

See: More detailed evidence of Creation

Also:

1) The glaring lack of transitional fossils has been noted by the evolutionists themselves, such as this statement from the famous paleontologist and evolutionist George G. Simpson; quote: "The regular lack of transitional fossils is not confined to primates alone, but is an almost universal phenomenon."
"The lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real; they will never be filled" (Nilsson, N. Heribert).
"To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation" (Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought).
2) Instances of falsifying of evidence by evolutionists, such as Haeckel's drawings, Archaeoraptor, the Cardiff "specimen," and Piltdown Man.
"Haeckel exaggerated the similarities [between embryos of different species] by idealizations and omissions, in a procedure that can only be called fraudulent. His drawings never fooled embryologists, who recognized his fudgings right from the start. The drawings, despite their noted inaccuracies, entered into the standard student textbooks of biology. Once ensconced in textbooks, misinformation becomes cocooned and effectively permanent, because textbooks copy from previous texts. We do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks (Stephen Gould).
Dr. Jonathan Wells published a book in 2002 entitled Icons of Evolution. Dr. Wells states that the book shows that "the best-known 'evidences' for Darwin's theory have been exaggerated, distorted or even faked."

3) Creationists see the "survival of the fittest" and the dating of rock layers by fossils as being perfect tautologies.

4) The fact that some qualified, educated, normal scientists do not believe in evolution. Or at least question it, even if they still preach evolution: "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species" (Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum).
"To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. It amazes me that this is swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without murmur of protest" (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner).

5) The fact that there is a shared, worldwide tradition among every ancient society that the world was created.

6) Evolving of new organs or species has not been witnessed during known history.

7) Mutations are harmful, not beneficial. One of the tasks of DNA and of long-term breeding is to avoid or repair any changes brought about by mutations. This means that our genetic apparatus is programmed to resist change.

8) Mutations, even if beneficial, do not create new organs.

9) The fact that a great number of fossils have been found in the "wrong" rock-layers according to what evolutionary Paleontology would require.

10) The fact that you need DNA to make DNA. No genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code and carry out its instructions. Information does not arise spontaneously; and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell.
"A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations" (Michael Denton, author).
"The astounding structural complexity of a cell" (U.S. National Library of Medicine).
Concerning a single structure within a cell: "Without the motor protein, the microtubules don't slide and the cilium simply stands rigid. Without nexin, the tubules will slide against each other until they completely move past each other and the cilium disintegrates. Without the tubulin, there are no microtubules and no motion. The cilium is irreducibly complex. Like a mousetrap, it has all the properties of design and none of the properties of natural selection" (Michael Behe, prof. of biophysics).

11) The problem of the impossibility of abiogenesis in general. "The concept of abiogenesis is not science. It's fantasy" (J.L. Wile, Ph.D.).

12) The fact that evolution was once used as support for the belief that Blacks (or others) are less than highly-evolved humans. "Darwin was also convinced that the Europeans were evolutionarily more advanced than the black races" (Steven Rose, author). He also "reasoned that males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" (B. Kevics, author).

13. The first and second laws of thermodynamics point clearly to a Creator, since things undergo entropy rather than get more orderly over time.

14. "Radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age-estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often very different. There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological clock. The uncertainties inherent in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists." William D. Stansfield, Ph.D., Instructor of Biology, California Polytechnic State University.

15. "Even total rock systems may be open during metamorphism and may have their isotopic systems changed, making it impossible to determine their geologic age." Prof. Gunter Faure (Department of Geology, The Ohio State University, Columbus.)

16 a). At current rates of erosion the amount of sea-floor sediments actually found do not support a "billions of years" age for the Earth.
b) The amount of Sodium Chloride in the sea, also, is a small fraction of what the "old Earth" theory would postulate.
c) The Earth's magnetic field is decaying too fast to extrapolate a long age for the Earth.
d) The rate of accumulation of Moon-dust has been measured; and the amount of dust on the Moon was found to be vastly less than what scientists had predicted before the Moon-landings.

See: Problems in Evolutionary astronomy

e) Helium is generated by radioactive elements as they decay. The escape of this helium into the atmosphere can be measured. According to the Evolutionary age of the Earth there should be much more helium in the atmosphere, instead of the 0.05% that is actually there.Also see:

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Answer 6

Humans and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor. We split off. So no humans did not evolve "from" monkeys. Adam and eve are lore.