Originally posted by MrFatBooty
I like to think that it's not so much that it's a transitional phase, it's just that the "updated version" is capable of surviving on its own.
Example (with Simpsons influence):
A fish spontaneously mutates a third eye and the brain capacity to take advantage of it. This allows it to see better than other fish with two eyes. It survives and mates, which produces more three-eyed fish. These three-eyed fish keep surviving and mating, etc. Two-eyed fish are still around and doing just fine for themselves, they just don't happen to have three eyes. The fact that the three-eyed fish succeeds does not necessarily mean that the two-eyed fish dies out. In some cases that does happen but not necessarily.
Same deal with apes and people. Just because we exist and are able to keep going doesn't mean that apes are no longer able to survive. At some point this might be true but for now they're doing fine for themselves.
I guess that kind of is a transition phase also. Slightly different, but yeah.
fish example:
understandable. possible. but the 3eyed fish are still fish. this is an example of adaptation not evolution.
applied to humans/monkeys:
are we just glorified monkeys then? the word "humans" will then mean it is just a word we created to make us feel better about ourselves and not remind us that we're just talking monkeys. but we do more than just "talk." we are able to love, hate, think/contemplate, plan, construct and go beyond our "primal" nature (if we are indeed monkeys/apes).
i will agree on part, that there are many people who claim to be Christians, yet are unknowledged of the religion and indeed appear as "hypocrites." but there are also many people who are indeed Christians and are not "hypocrites." so please dont call out names and generalize and stereotype all persons of religious faith (in this case Christianity) as a "bible thumper" or "fanatic."