I’m fascinated by the conservative obession with evolution. On Illinois Review, Jill Stanek quotes with some approval this statement by Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee:
If anybody wants to believe they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it. I don’t know how far they will march that back. But I believe all of us in this room are the unique creations of a God who knows us and loves us and created us for His own purpose.
Well, I certainly believe I’m descendant from primates. I just saw them a few days ago. It was mom’s birthday.
You see, Huck, it’s worse than you think. No only are we descended from primates, we are primates.
If you examine us humans carefully, looking at our bone structures, our organ systems, our eyes, brains, blood chemistry, the proteins that we’re made from, and the DNA that makes the proteins, we bear a close resemblance to all the other animals in the order of Primates.
In fact, we fit into the Hominidea family, along with orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees, also known as the great apes. So, we’re already living on the Planet of the Apes, because we are apes too.
This has nothing to do with evolution. The morphological similarities between humans and the apes was obvious well before Darwin proposed his great theory. Some discoveries, such as the similarities of our DNA, came after the theory of evolution, but they are true independently of whether evolution is true.
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