Does Atheists really think we come from monkeys?

Uh no

those would be SCIENTISTS with verifiable and peer-reviewed data who believe in evolution

Atheists have never believed we came from monkey's. (Still living in the 1950's are you?)

All the grat apes, which includes man, had a common ancestor which was NOT A MONKEY.

Oh, and by the way, this has been proved beyond any possibility to dispute or refute using retro-virus evidence in all great apes. So don't waste your time thinking it didn't happen, it did and it is now part of mans historic record.

It's "Do atheists really think we came from monkeys?"

As an atheist, you don't need to accept evolution as fact, the only thing that is required is the lack of belief in gods. Most atheists do accept it though. People that accept evolution, whether they be atheist or theist, believe that we came from a common ancestor of apes, not monkeys.

I'm going to go out on a limb here with my monkey friend who likes to climb trees and guess that you are a troll. Misuse of the English language as you have done and asking a question that already has had literally thousands of answers to in the past would indicate you are trolling.

For, literally the hundredth time, we do not believe we came from monkeys. Atheism has nothing to do with anything else other than lack of belief in a god. Atheists can believe whatever dafuq we want after that. Most atheists believe in science. Biology, specifically evolution, says we share a common ancestor with monkeys, which makes us evolutionary cousins. We did not come from them.

Primates are mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans.

The Strepsirrhini, or “wet-nosed” primates, which include lemurs and lorises, branched off around 63 million years ago.

Old World monkeys and apes divided from New World monkeys about 40 million years ago.

Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago.

The apes split from Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago.

Humans and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years ago.

Of the macaque's nearly 3 billion DNA base pairs, 93.5 per cent are identical to those in the human genome. This is not unexpected for a species whose lineage diverged from our own about 25 million years ago. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged just 6 million years ago, are about 98 per cent identical but the Bonobo monkey has 98.2 per cent making it mans closest living relative.

One puzzling discovery is that several mutations that cause genetic diseases in humans - such as phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which lead to mental retardation - are the normal form in macaques and, presumably, our own ancestors.

So on each split the original got left behind to stay as it was!

The first true hominid has been shown to almost certainly arrived in the Great Rift Valley but as a product of evolving from it's monkey and ape ancestry!

Australopithecus sideba is later than Australopithecus africanus, and shares many features with early Homo. So it is, if you must, the missing link between Australopithecus africanus and Homo habilis.

So why do you obviously believe that God was not clever enough to use the big bang, evolution and science as his tools?!

The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!

Nice that Christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense!

But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy Christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!

If you intend to post like this again please state which extremist sect you belong to so that GOOD Christians can disassociate themselves from you and explain why your sect is so at odds with Christianity!

No. Most atheists accept the theory of evolution - as do most Christians.

On a side note, I don't think it's *entirely* wrong to say we evolved from monkeys. Of course we didn't evolve from "modern" monkeys, but our ancestors did look a little like monkeys.

If by "monkey" you mean an extant species of monkey, then no. If you mean a primate with a tail, then yes I do think that because it's demonstrably true. Our ancestors 30 million years ago probably had tails, but our ancestors 25 million years ago no long had tails. Even without the clincher of genetics, we have evidence. The coccyx in great apes (including humans) is vestigial, and there's even atavistic tails in the human population.

We share a common ancestor with pretty much every living being on the planet. Any two species do.

I really don't understand why people are fixated on monkeys... why not ask about like, cockroaches?

Atheists to tend to believe in evolution but they believe humans and monkeys share a common ancestor.

Atheists do not think that, and science does not teach that mankind has descended from monkeys.

What ... did you sleep through science class?

Get an education.

(I did, btw. I have a degree in Science).

Simply put, yes. Life was created in some chemical reactions and evolved from a most basic life form something like a bacteria etc. to a human. Closest relatives to humans are apes.

Watch a video of Gorilla Koko (She was taught English in sign language, she shows she has an ability to feel grief and have wish for a baby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCOHUXmEZg