Have you ever found a monkey while tracing your family tree?

Answer 1

No and none of us will, for a few obvious reasons that are not reliant on sudo-christian ideas.

1. Family genealogy relies on history, or written records, very few families can trace their roots back beyond 100 BCE (before Common Era, or BC if you believe in the bible/torah). Most get stuck at 1837 CE (Common Era, which is the same as AD).

2. Humans can not reproduce with monkeys; not even gorillas have the same mechanism. It is feasible that human sperm would fertilise an Oran tang or Chimpanzee egg (or vice versa), but our DNA has developed so far apart by now, that the fertilised egg would be rejected by the host mother.

3. We are descended from a common ape ancestor, who is now extinct, not from the monkeys, or surviving pro simians, like lemurs. Since in that part of our history we were without a written language, there will be no records in the archives to prove such a link, so you would not find one.

If you ever bothered to get you head out of the Bible, which I doubt that you have even read, you will discover a host of wonderful works. Darwin in his book called, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)" was the first person to prove the theories with facts. However the theory behind evolution was developed by Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) who was an Augustinian abbot.

It is Mendel, not Darwin who is often called the "father of modern genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics.

However, when it comes to facts, I suspect that you would rather bury your head in the biblical sand like an ostrich, than bother to open your eyes and actually learn something new.

Answer 2

I don't like family photos or albums. I will not make any in my adult life. My folks stored their old photo albums in a back corner of my bedroom closet, with the boxes of tax paperwork. When I was 12 or 13, I decided to go poking through them. I discovered that my father had a 'first wife' who wasn't my mother, and that I had a half-brother I never knew existed. I felt betrayed by my parents for never having told me about my brother or about my dad's early mistakes, and I never saw my dad in the same light, ever again. From that point on, family photo albums were keepers of damaging and traumatizing secrets; like how the internet captures and holds on to every stupid thing you ever say or do online, available for reference years and years after you know better. That said, my family photo albums also contain the smiling images of family members who ended up meeting quite sad and tragic ends. I do not want to be reminded that those moments (at the bowling alley, at a park, at a movie) all those years ago, were the best it ever got for them. It makes me feel like I've already experienced the best I'll ever experience, and now it's downhill from there until I die. When family photo albums make you want to mourn the pitiful lives your relatives lived, you tend to avoid them.

Answer 3

Read Dawkins' The Ancestors Tale.

I suppose yours goes back to Adam=Eve b Cain, Abel.

And of course we have, your shared DNA with monkeys gives it away (of course it was a common ancestor rather than a monkey).

Edit:

And like wow, so many people coming out here being PROUD of their ignorance, mindblowing!

Answer 4

LOL

Never !! Not while tracing my family tree....but have found few among my current relatives ;)

Answer 5

Nope

Answer 6

No I study my family tree in a library not a zoo.

Answer 7

yes but it was outside my window hanging out in the trees im sure it was a coincidence

Answer 8

For people who feel the need to slam evolution, can you at least READ about what evolution actually theorizes before asking naive questions like this?

Answer 9

interesting point of veiw.
has any monkey ever claimed to be a slave?
i think genalogy can be completey a waste of time.
but i also know that perfect genealogy can produce fruits of righteousness and blessing from god.

Answer 10

no....but did find a tree with only one branch and on that branch there were four nuts,a bluebird and a squirrel with no tail.