Fnord wrote:
People who seem horrified at the very suggestion that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, also seem to have no problem at all with the idea that the first man was made from a pile of dirt, and that the first woman was constructed from the first man's rib.
I was watching a 1950s US television news program on Youtube were the newsreader was talking about evidence for evolution to refute the prevailing christian theological ideologies which were rampant at the time.
He was doing well, until he introduced three people into the studio (an African American, Mexican and a Caucasian) to illustrate how humans evolved from apes. I faceplanted but really shouldn't have been surprised as he proceeded to point out how two of his guests (in front of their faces) were closer to apes "proving" humans evolved over thousands of years.
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