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If evolution is true why did only humans evolve to be civil while animals are still wild animals from billion?

...from billion of years of evolution? The universe according to scientist is billions of years old? When will wild animals contribute to human like intelligence to invent and contribute to the world? How long do you need to evolve like we did?

Public Comments

1. Err....what makes you think that humans are any more civil than gazelle? Herds of gazelle don't tend to go to war with each other. As far as intelligence, that isn't a goal of evolution. Surviving is. So the answer to that depends on what other species need to survive. Chimps make and use tools, so they are only about a million years behind us.
2. "How long do you need to evolve like we did?" Longer than 6000 years, Sparkie. ~
3. A question that evolutionists will avoid with great effort. Mother Nature has had billions of years to evolve our equal (or superior) and hasn't even come close. Not even primates seem to have the ability to develop abstract thought, build buildings, use improved tools, make clothing, domesticate other species, and develop language. Our most primitive ancestors could do all of these.
4. Excellent point! Sure, there are animals that HELP us do things, and some, by nature help us just by instinct. If evolution was true, there would be more species than just us to do these things.
5. My dog makes much more of a contribution to society than many people who are just looking for an easy ride through life. She is capable of perfect, unconditional love and is free of judgment. She lives for now instead of dwelling on the past. Her life is simple and free from stress except when I'm not home, and then, as soon as I return, her stress is immediately gone. People should be more like dogs. Also gorillas and great apes are wonderful parents, use tools, communicate with one another, and actually have a sort of ceremony when one of their own dies.
6. You need the rare suite of mutations that create the condition called 'neoteny', the retention of juvenile features in adulthood, I.e relative hairlessness, babyish facial features. The most important neotenous characteristic is the dramatically slowed fusion of the crainial plates, which allows for the growth of a brain capable of sapience, and thus civilization.
7. that's a pretty good question. been wondering that myself. animals have remained but we evolved into intelligent life forms that can build these structures, go to space and whatnot....
8. Evolution isn't true!! And even if it were, if we really came from monkeys - then why don't those monkeys evolve to humans - also, where did monkeys from??
9. Who said that all species have to evolve at the same rate? Certainly no one who knows what they're talking about.
10. Both animals and humans have changed since the beginning. Evolution is ongoing. Humans would evolve more in a few million years. I think we came from a common source and a series of reaction or interaction split us off into species. Something catastrophic occurs wiping out and/or changing living beings. I believe evolution is both a slow and a sudden process. That there may not be one missing link but several and there is also at least 1 leap. BTW it is a silly argument to think that the end result of evolution is us and that everything evolves to the same thing!!! That is just plain silly.
11. It's only a problem because you evidently don't know how genetics and evolution work. How come the sky is blue, since air is invisible? Cheech!
12. how are humans possibly considered civil? i dont recall ever reading int the newspaper that a great ape bombed a village of chimps
13. The main goal of evolution is survival, not advancement. Some of the most primitive organisms on the planet are near perfect examples of the efficiency of evolution. Look at ants. They are everywhere and there's no eliminating them. The more you kill, the more there are. We humans may be the pinnacle of development on this planet, but we would be far easier to wipe out compared to some other species.
14. In a changing world, creatures adapt to changing circumstances. When things stabilize and a species can survive as they are, they stay as they are. To ask why only one species evolved to be humans is like asking why only one species evolved to be rabbits. Did you expect that all species would evolve into human like creatures? Why would they? They started out as different things and slowly evolved into what we see today. If you came back a thousand years from now (assuming that we haven't killed off ourselves and every other living thing by then) you'd probably see some very different animals than you remember. If the environment changes enough, the animals will adapt to survive. So will the humans. Duh. Just because somebody made up a story thousands of years ago and told it to you before you were old enough to say "oh, come on" doesn't mean it's true. In the beginning, was it the heavens and the Earth and the spirit of God, and a journalist? Taking notes?
15. Your main mistake is in thinking that we are *more evolved* than other animals just because we have a greater capacity for intelligence. We are not *more* evolved than any other animals alive today, we just evolved along a different path. We have been evolving just as long as today's monkeys, today's sharks, and today's bacteria. Our intelligence is just one of the characteristics that allows us to be successful in our environment. Just because sharks and monkeys are not suited to our envirnment doesn't mean they aren't equally evolved - they are, instead, ideally suited to their own environments, which we would not last long in if we had to share with them. Likewise, bacteria are much better adapted to their living environments that we or sharks are. Your secondary mistake is assuming that only humans are civil when civility is human invention and a biased human perception. Typical, arrogant, human-centric thought.
16. What are you defining civil? Which people are civil? USA? UK? Middle East countries? Civility is in the eye of the beholder. We think of ourselves as "civil" because we function together in relative peace in a society. Chimps do the same, does this mean because chimps work together in a society that they are a civil animal?
17. It is the way the genes took a path to intelligence and kept getting each branch right whilst the animals we split from stayed the same!! But 233 chimp genes, compared with only 154 human ones, have been changed by selection since chimps and humans split from their common ancestor about 6 million years ago!! There is evidence of altruism in monkeys, tool use etc which shows they are now evolving!! But I see you are still trying to suggest the churches are wrong!! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept evolution and the big bang!! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!! Nice that christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at your expense!!