Believe? No, I don't do believing.
Dogs And Bears Are Closely Related To Seals - KnowledgeNuts
Dogs, bears and seals are closely related though.
But back to believing.
Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds
Scientists have done a study of human and monkey genomes and found we're 96% the same.
Cats are 90% similar, cows 80% similar, mice 75%, fruit fly 60%, chickens 60%.
Monkeys are the closest to humans. But you keep believing whatever crap you found inside your head this morning.
What you linked is ridiculous and nuts. They're not the same species nor related.
First, there isn't even a consensus over what animals are related.
What I linked is fact.
If you find facts "ridiculous and nuts" then I'm sorry you can't deal with reality.
There isn't a consensus, you're right. But that's more to do with people making shit up and pretending that somehow humans are special, rather than there being consensus among those people who follow science.
No, they aren't facts or else we can all use it. You just proved me right because you agreed there isn't a consensus. Facts are such as the sky is blue, cold is the absence of heat or dark is the absence of light. Only someone who believes Darwin believes we all come from a common ancestor. You take that out and all your links turn to mush. The tree of life is based on a huge assumption and a circular argument at best. Darwin's idea of "selfish gene" behavior that drives organisms was proved incorrect. It wasn't about survival of the fittest. Besides, Darwin isn't believable anymore since he was wrong about most of his theories and he was racist. His thinking led to social Darwinism, eugenics, the holocaust and genocide. Today, with epigenetics, people are paying attention the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck again over Darwin's old ideas..
It's not a fact that our DNA is closest to monkeys? Then what it is? Wait, it's not a fact if you don't want to accept it? Come off it.
There will never be consensus because there are people who have weird agendas where they'll ignore all the evidence and peddle their crap. It doesn't help your case at all.
So, how people misused his theories, proves he's wrong? Can you not see how bad an argument that is?
Darwin might have been wrong, that isn't the point of the topic here. The point is whether we came from Monkeys.
The reality is that both monkey and humans probably came from the same source which might not have been human or monkey.
>>f: It's not a fact that our DNA is closest to monkeys? Then what it is?<<
That's a good question and even Nature tried to point the closeness out. What it is is
statistics. Mark Twain said, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics."
The scientists who want to argue for having chimps as a common ancestor use it. Grant it, it's not much of a difference based on DNA, I think about 4% or less. However, it's not enough to convict someone in a court of law just based on DNA (there has to be other corroborating evidence). Moreover, those who are against the common ancestor theory use statistics, too. It means a difference of around 35 million places where the molecules are different from chimps and humans. Of that there are 5 million places where the human DNA either has more or fewer bases than chimp DNA.
Finally, I remember it was apes used as ancestor to humans previously. Then it became ape-human. Chimpanzees were never part of it until their DNA was found to be similar.