The religious people believe in creationism, and the scientists believe in the big bang theory. I believe in neither. I believe existence has no start date, and no end date. I believe it always has been, and always will be.
It will change as time goes by. In the 1700s peoples fashions were much different then those of today. You don't see those kinds of clothes anymore, but you do see clothes. They've just changed. I guess you could call that evolution if you wanted to.
Some people ask "if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?".
Even since I was a kid I always thought this was a simple question with a simple answer. We evolved from some form of the ape family.
This is simply a case of humans being ignorant. (Real quick I wanted to point out that being ignorant is the lack of knowledge, being stupid is lacking the ability to LEARN knowledge. Every wise man was born ignorant, but learned over time). We have no idea what species of ape we came from, and we never will. Reason being is, we weren't there to observe the evolution. You'd need a time machine for that!
Heres an example:
There's lions, there's tigers, there's jaguars (thought I was going to say "there's bears, OH MY!" didn't you?). All three of these are different species of the cat family. Now imagen something happened were for whatever reason, the tigers started having climate differences that made them able to survive, but just barely. This in turn over thousands of years would make their genes alter their DNA.
Now they have thicker coats of fur. Now that they can roam around their prey notices them on the loose much more, so they instinctively get high.
NO! Not that kind of high, I mean they climb trees, they get out of the way of the tigers. So, now the tigers are back to barely surviving. So, their genes again are morphed over time.
Now they have thicker muscles, sharper claws, which allow them to peirce even trees so they can climb them, and thicker muscles which allow their legs to support the weight of climbing. Problem is, their prey tends to see this massive bright orange cat coming up the trees, and jumps to the next tree, or flys off if it has wings. So the DNA changes again. It makes their feet sticky, so that it doesn't have to climb with its claws, it just slowly walks up the tree without so much as shaking it at all. The fur also darkens in color so it can blend in with the tree, and not look like a contruction cone climbing a tree. Also, the neck can now turn 180 degrees so that is can walk back down the tree without changing direction. Its head and neck can also lash out like a lizards tounge would, to catch a sleeping prey offguard.
And now the tigers survive! But it really doesn't resemble the original tiger at all. Its a super evolved cat! But wait, why do we still have cats around? Lions, jaguars, Lynx. They all still exist, right? Well, those species didn't evolve. They weren't in the same situations as the tiger, which by now has taken on almost a completely different form. The bone structure is still similar enough that some scientist is able to say "Hey, this looks like it came from the cat family! How can this beeeeeeEEEEE???? AAHHHHHH!!!!"
Well, that was a long enough tangent! I'll leave it at that without re-reading it to figure out what point I was trying to make. I'm not reading that wall of text! Let the other TMF posters do that...