who thinks they are related to monkeys?

Question

im not.

its pretty much a proven fact that the tomb of jesus they found was not Jesus the Christ. as jesus was a more common name back then.

Answer 1

In fairness, many people failed to read your question correctly. You did not ask whether we "evolved" from monkeys (which is not true), but whether we are *related* to monkeys.

But haysoos is exactly right.

Why is it harder to accept a *distant* relationship to monkeys than a *recent* relationship to dirt?

Why would any woman be happier with the idea that women came from the rib of a wimpy, indecisive man ... an afterthought ... than something that evolved side-by-side with men, through every single step in a long journey?

Or another way to look at it ...

In the course of just *nine months* we can see the development of a human being from nothing but a single cell, and then a fuzzy little ball of tissue, and then a little fleshy thing with a tail that looks more like a salamander than a human. Why is it so hard to imagine that in 8 *billion* years we could have developed from something that looks a *lot* more human than a salamander or a single-celled organism?

Humans ARE primates. Why do people feel insulted by this? Are you also insulted that we are also classified as mammals? Or vertebrates? Or animals rather than plants?

Sheesh. People need to get over themselves!

Answer 2

statements like this show the misconceptions of many people regarding evolution. We did not come from monkeys as previous posters said. We share a common ancestor. If you go back far enough (3.5 billion years or so) ALL living things share a common ancestor.
I tell my students that however you believe life came to be on this planet is fine. HOWEVER, evolution is not up for debate - we have many many pieces of evidence to support evolution.

It is only called the theory of evolution because a theory in science is an idea that has been supported many times but never been disproven. We cannot prove evolution simply becuase we cannot see millions of years happening - we DO have evidence of those years in fossils though. We have no problem believing the theory of gravity. Why is evolution so tough?

Scientists are not trying to say there is no god, many scientists do believe in god. This should not be a debate, in my opinion. Believe what you want religiously, but evolution happened.

Answer 3

Human beings are in the family Hominoidae, together with the great apes and in the order Primate along with New World and Old World Monkeys. The degree of taxonomic relation has also been verified by the degree of genetic relationship.

So if you are not related to monkeys ergo you are not a human being.

Answer 4

I don't know which is sadder, those who deny the physical evidence (genetic, anatomical and paleontological) that show that we are indeed primates, and thus related to monkeys and that we are actually just one type of ape, or those who insist that because we share a common ancestor with modern great apes, it somehow means that we aren't descended from monkeys.

Yes, humans are apes. Every characteristic used to classify apes also applies to humans.

We are not directly descended from any of the living species of modern great apes however. We share a common ancestor with those modern great apes, but are not directly descended from any of those species. That common ancestor, however, was definitely an ape.

The apes are all descended from monkeys. One branch of large, macaque-like monkeys, starting with critters like Proconsul from about 20 million years ago in Africa became what we now know as apes.

Since we are apes, that monkey ancestor was also our ancestor. Therefore, we are also descended from monkeys, but it was a lot longer ago than our common ancestor with the apes.

The human branch split from the other great ape lineage about 8 to 10 million years ago.

I've never understood why Bible literalists are morally outraged at the suggestion that we may have evolved from apes 8 to 10 million years ago, but have no problem whatsoever with the idea that some sky dude smushed us together out of mud and ash 6000 years ago. As if coming from a primate ancestor is somehow worse than coming straight from dirt.

Answer 5

We didn't descend directly apes we branched off a common tree at some time in the past.
The common tree probably began with some sort of slug or something so apes and us must be related to slugs
Think about it!

Answer 6

For about the millionth time, man is not descended from monkeys. We share a common ancestor with apes. Even my 10-year old knows there is a difference between apes and monkeys. People who say we are related to, or descended from monkeys are just making their ignorance plain for all to see.

That we are somehow descended from apes or monkeys is a common misconception, frequently played upon by Creationists. If humans evolved FROM apes then naturally there would be no apes. Humans and apes share a common ancestor which shared some of the characteristics of both humans and apes. Humans and apes are both equally "evolved" because we both still exist and are both adapted to our present environments and circumstances (we can't say humans are more "evolved" than apes because both live and survive perfectly well in the present day).

It is currently estimated that about 7 million years ago one population of this common ancestor underwent a mutational change which produced two similar but different species - one went on to evolve into modern apes and the other went on to evolve into humans.

The common ancestor of both humans and apes in turn evolved from earlier creatures which in some ways ressembled today's lemurs and bushbabys (another branch went on to evolve into monkeys). These in turn evolved from earlier mammals which evolved from mammal-like reptiles. Mammal-like reptiles evolved from amphibians which evolved from fish which evolved from primitive vertebrates which evolved from the chordate reporductive stage of a creature similar to present day sea squirts which in turn had evolved from many simpler forms of animals going right back to the first single-celled living things.

It is currently estimated that the number of mutational changes that have taken us from the first singled-celled living things to present-day humans is only about 40. That's just 40 major changes that separate us from the first living things.

Answer 7

To paraphrase something I just read by Einstein, Science is about evidence and the way things are; religion is about wishful thinking and how we wish things were.

You are related to monkeys and every other life form. That is the way things are no matter how much you may wish you weren't.

Answer 8

You can still believe in God (a higher being) and believe we evolved from monkeys. You just cant take the bible word for word. God the magnificent process of evolution. So yes, we are related.

Answer 9

Honey,with a family full of jack-asses(like mine) I think a monkey would be a nice change!!!

Answer 10

I don't believe that. You know though I get so mad at these scientist's. We all need something to believe in and I don't think it's right that they take that away from us. I hate hearing that they found new evidence. I hate hearing they found Jesus's bones....leave it. I like believing in God and when I die I go to heaven. I like believing that I came from God not a ugly lice infested animal. Doesn't sound as nice does it?