Do you atheists think we evolved from a Monkey-like critter such as a Raccoon?

Or, do you think we evolved from some kind of monkey that looks like the modern day Sasquatch (aka ';Bigfoot';)?Do you atheists think we evolved from a Monkey-like critter such as a Raccoon?
Sometimes I tend to think that my bf evolved from a horse...





my my!Do you atheists think we evolved from a Monkey-like critter such as a Raccoon?
I am not an atheist, I am agnostic and I am sure someone will have something to say about that. However, i have always liked this question.





I do believe we have evolved from our original structures, including intelligence and physical make-up. But then evolution happens everyday and people who continue to deny evolution completely are more ignorant than I care to think about. That being said, I do not think we evolved from monkeys, or any other animal for that matter. I think we evolved from lesser humans. Such as Lucy, who was a hominid that was only 3 feet tall, walked with a club arm, and is dated at being 3.5 million years old. Anyway, that is just my take.





But then, that is just the tip of the iceberg.
We evolved from one of the now extinct Hominid species, about 150,000 years ago. Long before that, we shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos. Many millions of years ago we shared a common ancestor with modern monkeys.





I know such things because I've been interested in science my whole life and put a great deal of effort into my own education -- NOT because I am an atheist.
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Boy can you even get some new BS options? These were tried last time.





But no just in case any honestly curious person is reading this - the common ancestor of both men and monkeys (and a sasquatch if one exists as commonly described - it would doubtless also be a primate) is long extinct and was not like a raccoon at all.





It would resemble a lemur more than anything else, but only superficially. It's not a lemur either!
';In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open-ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.';鈥?- Victor J Stenger, Has Science Found God? (draft: 2001), ch. 2
Hopefully ';we atheists'; have a better understanding of natural selection/evolution than you do. Evolution happens at a GENETIC level, not an individual species level. If you don't understand the difference, you probably need to read a bit more. It's definitely easier to reduce Darwin's ideas to ';Darwin says we come from monkeys!';...and of course that simplistic thinking works very well when dealing with simplistic people (it's called the Straw Man Fallacy). Stop thinking that evolution occurs at the species level...that is your error.





dboy
Not all atheists believe we Evolved from Monkeys . . .


PS. what's the deal with the Gigantic Magical-Man who flies around in the sky with a bevy of half-naked angels, 'causing natural disasters for the good of all mankind' and such . . .?
I believe we evolved from Adam and Eve. We are made in God's image. When scientists can explain how the ';Big Bang Occurred.'; Let me know. There are theories and that is it. How do we not know that God made the Explosion and in six days earth was created? You will say, well I can't see your God, and I say to you, scientists can't explain it either.


All their are theories out there. Go on the history website and sometime ago, the history channel had a show on genetics and how they believe that they have theories that we all came from two people. And that's using your genetics and scientists. God said, at the end of time the truth will be reveled. And still people will refuse to see the truth.


God Bless
My atheist views have nothing to do with what I evolved from. The FACT that human beings evolved from a small ';monkey-like critter'; has to do with that most noble of sciences, evolution, and has nothing to do with beliefs or religion.
If you go back far enough, all mammals evolved from a small, rodent-like creature, which lived hundreds of millions of years ago. I don't know if it looked like a raccoon. Maybe a little.
Nope. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopit鈥?/a>





This guy.
the raccoon like species was a more distant ancestor, then a more ape like ancestor was the common ancestor of the great apes - humans, chimps, gorillas, orangutans
I don't care about all that. I am enjoying the weather %26amp; my beautiful home %26amp; husband %26amp; everything else in my beautiful life. I will think about evolution in the future or maybe I won't.
Actually more of a lemur than a raccoon, but otherwise, both. It's not a straight linear progression, you know.
Its funny how no matter how many times this question is asked by God-fearing folks, and atheists answer, they still don't understand the process of evolution.
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the problem is, that most of you think, we evolved from monkeys


go on evolution-four-part series about DNA relation on youtube, it might blow your brain
We did not evolve from monkeys at all. We are distantly related and have a common ancestral link. More closely to the great ape, which is different than a monkey.
Do you christians think that some old bearded man sits up in the sky judging us, or is he just 'invisible' and is 'everywhere'?...
Neither.
We didn't evolve from monkeys.
no but i think christians believe that
Haha- funny question, I'll star it, I wonder what the atheists will say? Nothing good I'm sure.