Fellow evolibationists: why do you keep saying we didn't come from monkeys?

Question

OF COURSE WE CAME FROM MONKEYS!!!

If you merely wish to say our ancestors were not identical to any living species of monkey, that of course is correct, but that's a distinction I don't think any of the religious posters here care about.

A 200,000th-generation descendant of monkeys

Yes, I know, we came from apes. But in the first place, when lay people use the word "monkeys," I believe they usually intend to include apes as well. In the second place, the most recent common ancestor of monkeys, apes, and man was something that no doubt would be considered a monkey. So I will stand behind what I said. We came from monkeys. What's the problem?

Reverend Soleil: monkeys are a paraphyletic group. It is perfectly correct to say we came from monkeys. And sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Answer 1

I don't have a problem with having come from monkeys or whatever you want to call what we came from.

Answer 2

Because we didn't come from monkeys. We share a common ancestor with apes. That ancestor was not 100% the same thing that apes are today, and they were not 100% of what we are today. (Like you said, not identical to any living species existing today.)
However, (whether or not you use the word "monkeys" or "apes") it is important to make that distinction clear when talking to creationists who are trying to spread the misinformation that we came from "monkeys", (meaning the same thing that monkeys are today) because not doing so then leads them to start saying things like "if we came from monkeys, then why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans? And why don't you find any half-human, half-monkeys around?" It just contributes to the existing ignorance if we do not make it clear that the ancestor from which we and apes evolved are not the monkeys that creationists try to say they are.

Answer 3

Well, when someone says "I didn't come from monkeys" or "why are there still monkeys" you can assume that they are referring to modern monkeys, since they show an ignorance to evolution. So it is correct to tell them evolution doesn't say this. But yes, we did evolve from an ancestor that would be very similar to us, modern apes, and modern monkeys. But since it would be its own species at the time, it would probably be more correct to give it it's own name.

Answer 4

We didn't come from monkeys. Monkeys and Humanity share a common ancestor. We came from Apes

Answer 5

Considering some of the questions so far today, it makes me wonder if it really is monkeys and not apes...

You Need Fourthmeal

Answer 6

Apes/Monkeys, whatever.

Many evolutionists keep saying we didn't come from monkeys because it's a weak point of evolutionism, just like origin of life.

Answer 7

You should get with the person asking about 'clonation'. If people used the word primate I would never object. But as long as they flaunt their ignorance I will point it out.

The reason people use the word 'monkey' is of course because it suits their purpose of misinformation. They're never truly speaking to people who know even the most basic notion of evolution.

Their speaking to those who know nothing about it. They're preying on the ignorant. If they used the word 'primate' that would encourage the ignorant to look the word up and discover that we actually are primates.

Answer 8

What's are evolibationists? And we evolved from a common ancestor.

Answer 9

We're more closely related to APES, not monkeys.

Best not to try irony in the first place, if you don't know how to pull it off...

Answer 10

Someone say libations? I'll drink to that