[stultorum]

"...the fact that we share common ancestors."

Could those ancestors be monkeys, by any chance?

I notice you conveniently did not say we "descend" from monkeys, but used instead the common Darwinist ready-made phrase, "share common ancestors." But we all know what you meant by that phrase -- ie, that humans descend from monkeys, whic is not true, btw.

[Physicist]

Could those ancestors be monkeys, by any chance?

Certainly. "Extinct" monkeys, to be sure, but monkeys nevertheless Or you could have pointed to (again, "extinct") apes, if you wanted something more recent. Or to fish, if you wanted to back further. Or to yeast-like single-celled organisms, if you like.

I notice you conveniently did not say we "descend" from monkeys, but used instead the common Darwinist ready-made phrase, "share common ancestors."

Then let me not stand open to puerile accusations of subterfuge: We descend from monkeys. The only way that statement can be construed as untrue is to take the position that we are still a species of monkey. There is merit in that view. But then this statement is irrefutable: We descended to monkeys.

[Elsie]

Could those ancestors be monkeys, by any chance?

Proto-monkey/human base stock, I think is the standard 'wisdom'.