If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

I am not trying to be mean cause I asked 1 person and she thought I was trying to be mean but I just was wondering since evolutionist beleive that people evolved from apes then why are there still apes

Evolution does not say that man evolved form ape. It does say that man and ape evolved from a common ancestor.

The common ancestor may seem more ape-like than human-like. Different branches of primates had different evolutionary pressures. When a species finds a nitche where it is well adapted there is less pressure to change. Sharks and cockroaches have changed little for millions of years because they are so well adapted for survival. Many other species have come and gone in the tenure of the shark and cockroach.

There is nothing mean about your question. It is a very naieve question that I have heard uninformed people ask for over 30 years. I tend to roll my eyes and shake my head when people still ask it.

may I ask if evolution didnt exist how comes an orangutang is 1 chromosome differnt from a human which is 98 % human?

it's impressive to see how many iliterate americans are there around, wait, they elected bush. now it's clear: illiterate americans elected an illiterate president.

I've read many times 'ape to man' - makes me wonder why today, you have an ape and a man....no in-between !....guess we stopped somehow :-)

Bad to be asking ? - Heavens no !....the responses speak volumes........

Evolutionis a joke. We never evolved from an ape like creation. Evolutionists have been educated to imbacility. Common sense is nowhere to be found. For instance the giraffe got its long neck because food was scarce low to the ground is what I was tought in school. OK lets follow this thought.. no food close to ground.. what about all the other herbivores in that region? They did not grow a long neck so did they learn to jump 40 ft into the tree? If food was THAT scarce that over thousands of years an animals neck grew 12 ft wouldnt some other species have followed that same path? OR speaking of the vegitation. For a tree to reproduce it must drop seeds. So why for all those years where there no smaller trees to feed on? did all the trees stop doing what GOD designed them to do? Or was the earth too dry and for hundreds of years the seeds didnt get sown because of a bad climate. And if thats the case how did the mature trees survive this harsh environment?.. NOTHING about evolution makes sense PERIOD. Its all bullshit to me. Im not a scientist but I have common sense that tells me when something smells fishy.

yes, we evolved from a common ancestor and adapted to the enviorment, when apes moved into a warmer climates they reduced the amount of hair

I'm not quite clear what you are saying here, but men and women have exactly the same number of ribs. This was found out by counting, instead of blindly believing what was written.

I see two common fallacies being repeated over and over here.

The first is that evolution is only a theory. There's a fundamental difference between the definition of theory in the context of science and the defintion of theory in lay-use. Evolution is a theory in the same sense that gravity, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics are theories. This wikipedia page does a good job explaining it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact

The second is the mutations don't add information. This argument relies on not properly defining the term information. If anyone is so inclined, I can go into shannon information theory, etc, but it's mostly beside the point. The easiest way to refute the argument: For any mutation that someone proposes removes information, the opposite mutation is clearly also possible. Therefore, that mutation must add information, meaning the original statement is false.

I must say that reason is misplaced among most of the theories here. Why would an animal grow its neck longer cause of lack of food on the ground and yet others have still short necks. shouldn't they have done the same? Or how can an animal become smaller by being eaten? Another one I heard of. If an animal is eaten it doesn't become anything more then food. There is no offspring born in the stomach of the Predator. doesn't make sense. But according to you that Faith is blind? But what about the fact you have closed your mind and haven't open it up either? Maybe its blind just to believe anything? That we should all stop? This is not pointed to relegion, just that usualy its attacked and the people are called dumb for having faith. Just doesn't seem fair to me to say a person that believes in God is dumb while another guy says we are from Monkeys. It just seems like a childish game of tag. One person says the other is dumb and im right because, but usually cant really support why they are and just says because I am right because so and so said so. Why not accept others thoughts and all be mature adults and stop saying well your wrong and im right. If you dont believe then stop picking on those who do. And those who believe stop picking on those who dont. It says to each his own. That makes sense to me.

so they can evolve after the next ice age which will happen soon as the ice caps are melting therefore flooding the world. as we wont be able to use cars or anything like that harmful to the environment nature will start healing itself and the hole in the ozone layer will heal thus the earth getting colder and freezing most of the water surrounding (or covering) all the land masses and life will start the circle again.

I find it interesting that creationists vehemently defend their viewpoint (usually), while evolutionists generally stop arguing after they realize there's nothing they can do to persuade the other side..
don't you think that means that the creationists are, unconsciously, unsure whether the concept of intelligent design is in fact true, and in trying to convince the other person to agree they're actually trying to persuade themselves?

Wow! What a question. If we knew all the answers we would be God, I suppose. I can tell you two things: (1) We did not evolve from apes; apes and mankind both evolved from something older. There is much archeological evidence to support this, and more bits are found every now and then. And (2) The world is much much stranger than you think.

People have spent lifetimes researching these things, and most just push the subject a tiny bit further. (Occasionally someone really brainy makes a giant leap forward, but that is rare.)

Everything is written down. Many of these books are not easy to read. A college education certainly helps. But there are simpler texts - when something has been known for a while it becomes possible to simplfy it; some people are very good at doing this. Ask for help in your library.

Someone above mentioned 'no real evidence' to support the theory of evolution, which is frankly laughable... since when was the fossil-record declared 'surreal'... ? It is certainly more real than deities written about in books but never confirmed with any hard evidence ...

I believe that God created this world and everything in it. The theory of evolution (called thus because it cannot be proven) is a lie from Satan. People today are offended by the name of Jesus (the J word as they call it), and use the theory of evolution to explain their existance without acknowledging God or the other two members of the Trinity. I just completed a very detailed study of Darwin's theory of evolution in my college Biology class last week, and completely understand the concept. It is true that we share common characteristics, but that is because we are made by the same Maker, God. If you want to think about it this way: A Chevy Camaro and a Pontiac Firebird were known as sister cars because they were alike. One was a Chevy brand, and one was a Pontiac brand, but they were both made by the same maker: GMC. Just like humans and apes, we are two TOTALLY different things, but made by the same maker; therefore, we have similar traits, but are not the same. Humans DID NOT evolve from apes. I also find it rather interesting that humans are the ONLY living beings with the power to reason. IF, IF evolution were possible, why is it that other species have not also developed this trait? Just something to think about... God bless!

If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Excellent question. Answer: because we did not evolve from apes .. but, rather, what we call apes today, have been evolving to look like apes ever since we split from them and began evolving into good-looking people, like me. The apes of today are our cousins, so to speak. We all go back to a common ancestor. How can we call that ancestor a MAN? or an APE? Anthropoligists call him an ___ [OK funadvisors, let's all google it and find out for him/herself :-) ]

We have not stopped evolving. Technology has changed what traits are necessary for survival.

We are loosing the ability to deliver babies vaginally. Before Caesarian Sections women who's birth cannal didn't allow vaginal birth died in childbirth. Now we can perform C sections these genes are being passed on and every generation fewer women can deliver their babies vaginally.

Technology has brought us glasses so people born with poor vision have less of a disadvantage and effort saving tools make physical strength less of an advantage than it used to. Perhaps we will evolve in to weaklings with bad eyesignt. Hello geek-world.

Some people who have studied the effect of technology on our traits have deciding that we are de-evolving (the band Devo got its name from this). I'd argue that we are simply developing a more diverse gene pool that will give us a greater ability to survive in the future where the traits necessary for survival are now not known.

want to hear something really whacky? ok, maybe just maybe, from somewhere far far away, like Mars, a being with the same knowledge of DNA splicing and clone making and pollution creating,and bomb producing, came to this planet and found some goofy looking animals, and thought, maybe we can save our race if we mix some of our DNA into this creature, and mixed some ugly Monkeys, and Cavemen and Martian DNA together,possibly the Martians were physically incompatible with the Earth's atmosphere, and maybe thats how man came into being, who can think the same things the martian thought, and create and imagine the same thing the martian created, and finally are getting this planet all nice and polluted and ready to poison the atmosphere and blow each other to kingdom come, like they did, eventually. Maybe we should try , now that we have mastered our scientific minds to perfection, Mixing DNA with a white dove, maybe we can produce a new kind of more peaceful being. Nah...

Current apes evolved from an earlier form of ape. Current humans evolved from an earlier form of human that was more like current apes. No evolutionist ever said apes turned into humans as if it were some sort of magic. Again, some previous form of human was more like an ape.Whatever forces of nature that specialized that animal along its path to today simply were different than the forces that created the current form of ape. The old ape like humans started eating meat for example, which increased the size and power of its brain. Most current apes are not carnivores, meaning they evolved from herbivores, their systems are not specialized by tens of thousands of years to process meat, ours are, because when our ancestors ate meat and lived, changed because of it... meat eating is just one small example of uncountable environmental changes that were either lived through and hence carried on, or not lived through and died out.

evolution makes no sense, I dont believe it.

We didn't evolve from apes. We evolved from a common ancestor of apes and other primates, therefore we were able to adapt into different branches.