This is what public school textbooks say

After 33 views i guess i shouldn't.

Absolutely not OP.

Earth is about 4.54 billion years old and our ancestors were fish. That silly intro level textbook should be thrown in the trash for stopping early instead of going all the way back...

So who or what was the fish's ancestors then?

Jawless fish. Chordates are the earlier relatives of vertebrates. Silly me. Looks like I didn't go back far enough.

Yeah, it's not like government institutions would lie to you or anything. It's not like they would push the great deception on you or anything. Tell a kid he's an ape and then wonder why he behaves like an animal....what's up with that?

keep going

Should I have to keep going? Have I not demonstrated a good enough thread?

Some deuterostome was the ancestor to chordates. Perhaps some sessile organism in the Ediacaran, something perhaps like Ernietta.

Fossilization is rare in soft bodied organisms. It's easier when you can work with mineralized bits.

So what was the first ancestry?

Minerals. Life started with a chemical reaction. The first organisms were single-celled.

Can it be repeated?

Can the creation of life be repeated? Yes. Please look into computer science.

If we can create non-organic organisms which function, adapt, and reproduce how is that any different then the creation of other life.

I'll give the ole man upstairs this. It's an incredible system that he created. Imagine the intellect that would be capable of creating a system in which an organism adapts to it's environment, and grows stronger over the course of millennia. Imagine the forethought, the genius!

I always wonder why creationist and evolutionists are at odds. It may be right, it may be wrong it's a theory, but is it a sin to attempt to understand god's works from a christian perspective?

Just because science is pushing our understanding as humans doesn't cheapen the fundamental context of the universe. In fact, the only thing it does is take the wind out of the sails of crooked clergy and gurus who want to tell you that god is magic, and only he/she can tell you why.

The debate over evolution is old, and people usually just use the debate to yell their beliefs louder then others. Instead of considering that there is a middle ground.