Are chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans our closest relatives?

Yes. Chimps and bonobos share an ancestor with humans about 5 million years ago. Gorillas last shared an ancestor with humans 6 million years ago and the orangutan last shared an ancestor with humans about 10 million years ago.

The bonobo evolved from the chimp about 2 million years ago. They are different from chimps because they are able to occupy a small patch of land across the Congo River from the stronger gorilla and common chimp. Chimps and gorilla cannot swim, so they cannot cross the river. Without stronger apes, bonobos have the best habitats to themselves. In contrast chimps are forced to occupy less productive habitats than gorillas and they have to spend more time per day looking for food than gorillas and bonobos do. Adult gorillas spend their spare time playing with young gorillas. Bonobos spare their spare time having sex with one another.

Humans are worse off than chimps because our ancestors were forced to leave the shrinking African forests by stronger apes, and they had to eke out a living on the African savanna, where there is little food. They had to start walking on two legs and use their brain to find new food. Had they not succeeded, humans would not be around today.

No but they are our closest known LIVING relative. It is possible that somewhere something like an Orang Pendek, a Yeti, surviving Neanderthal, or Bigfoot is actually real so any of those would probably be closer. That is one reason I put "known" as a limit. In addition, there are lots of presumed extinct types of humans such as Australopithecus that are closer than other apes. Some people are comfortable saying we know all the existing animals. I'm not so sure and anyway we can't be 100% sure.

NO they dont carry GUNS

yep , we share a pretty good chunk of our dna with these animals

Closest _living_ relatives, yes. We shared a last common ancestor about 10 million years ago. The other Homos were much more closely related (Neanderthals are only 500ky) but they all went extinct.

We were programmed to believe a lie. 

It was an easy lie to believe, because we have prehistoric evidence of it, staring us in the face, right? I mean, we have the dinosaurs! 

Allow me to loose you from those chains that bind you: 

The word 'dinosaur' came from two Greek words that mean 'terrible lizard': a word made up in the 1800s to describe reptile fossils.   

The word 'fossil' is from the French for 'dug up'.

Under the forces of extreme pressure, everything that was engulfed in mud during the world-wide flood turned into stone. 

For about a year and a half minerals permiated plant and animal tissue. The mud also became stone as it compressed under the weight of billions of tons of water.  

- Stone cannot be dated. 

- Once around the sun is a year: you cannot hold up a rock and decide how many times it has been around the sun. 

*When a fish dies, it rots or gets eaten.* 

It does NOT turn into a fossil. 

But there are fish fossils everywhere on the planet (even on the tops of mountains). 

Every fossil in the world is the result of the world wide flood. Period.  

*Before the flood everything lived ten times longer* 

that's why 

tusks 

antlers 

fangs 

trees 

bugs 

and reptiles grew huge. 

I used to work with reptiles: among many things I learned about them was that they NEVER stop growing as long as they live.   

Pre-flood the air had 50% more oxygen in it. 

Hyper-oxygenated air; the world was like a hyperbaric chamber, everything lived longer because of the air quality. 

We know this because we have air samples from before the flood; extracted from bubbles trapped in fossilized sap (amber).  

Adam lived until he was 930. Noah was 600 when he built the Ark (Google Noah's Ark Turkey - a tourist attraction since the 1970's A.D.).  

Believing in lies about evolution makes you guilty of making God out to be a liar. This is slander against the Most High: spiritual treason.  

You've heard of bacteria 'evolving'? 

No such thing: simply, the hardier bacteria were never killed off by the antibiotic in the first place. The weaker bacteria were. All that's left is 'resistant' bacteria. They were never subject to antibiotics to begin with. They never 'evolved'.  

Want to see evolution? 

If God wants to raise children for Abraham from the stones He can do it. 

He doesn't need any of us. 

He can change what is in the blink of an eye.... He doesn't need millenia.

Yes, all mine were Hominids including Neanderthals, have a banana.

Yes. The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and modern humans .

They used to be humans once.

no animal is relative to human human is human and animal is animal