Humans evolved from monkeys

[Aractus]

But his point specifically is that we did evolve from monkeys.  The word "monkey" is very important because he's a theist schooling atheists who he says don't actually know anything about evolution.  I've found many sites that explain that humans did not evolve from monkeys, but he won't accept any source unless it's a science journal or equivalent.

We didn't evolve from monkeys, and it's not entirely accurate to say we evolved "from apes" either because as SC pointed out we are technically a sub-species of Ape, and all apes living today (us included) evolved following different evolutionary pathways. And we're all contemporary species. No contemporary species evolved from another, they evolved from a now extinct ancestor. And we don't know what that ancestor was, but we do know it certainly wasn't a modern ape or monkey. We evolved into apes, not from apes.

We share a common ancestor with chimps, and they are our closet living ancestral relatives. But we didn't evolve from them, and they didn't evolve from us, we both evolved from some ancient life-form along two distinct evolutionary pathways. We don't know what the ancestor was, we don't know precisely how long ago it was (it could have been 7 million years, it could even have been 13 million years), the only thing we know is that it evolved into humans and it evolved into chimps over a period of at least 7 million years.