but again its a gradual change and goes against the fossil record which shows dramatic change over a short period of time, correct?
Er, in the fossil record, "gradual" means "over a few thousand years". In the monkey example, "gradual" means "over a few geenrations; maybe 50 years". In terms of the fossil record, the monkey example would happen instantaneously.
Also, I am still amazed that only one monkey would have evolved when the whole group could have, like the bacteria.
One monky
had a mutation but did not evolve. The
population of monkeys (meaning "all the monkeys alive at a chosen time")
evolved (meaning "at different times, the makeup of the poupulation of monkeys was different"). The whole group
did evolve.