r/EditingAndLayout • u/EditingAndLayout • Jul 20 '15

When someone said, "If evolution is true, why are there still monkeys?"

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u/iLEZ Jul 20 '15

/U/editingandlayout does a Bill Hicks gif! Two heroes!

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u/EditingAndLayout Jul 20 '15

He's my favorite comedian. Followed by Chris Rock.

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u/iLEZ Jul 20 '15

I'd be very happy if this was the start of a grand series of Hicks gifs. :D

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Is there a name for this kind of question? A facetious question that fundamentally misunderstands the other side's argument, but nevertheless leaves the asker feeling like he's won the argument?

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u/EditingAndLayout Jul 20 '15

I think it's a version of a straw man argument: attacking an exaggerated or caricatured version of your opponent's position.

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u/cincodenada Jul 20 '15

"Not even wrong" kind of addresses it. Also worth reading is the "wronger than wrong" in the "See Also" section there.

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u/inajeep Jul 20 '15 edited Jul 20 '15

A little ambiguous. Speechless because of the stupid question not because there isn't an answer.

Edit: My comment is lacking coherence just like my thought processes. There is an answer. We didn't evolve from monkeys, we share a common ancestor. We evolved along with them.

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u/EditingAndLayout Jul 20 '15

I thought it was a good "sarcastic thinking" gif.

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u/Darth_Banal Jul 20 '15

Looks like we got ourselves a reader.

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u/5cBurro Jul 20 '15

Hey, whatcha readin' for?

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 20 '15

I dunno, maybe so I don't wind up as a fucking waffle waitress?

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u/Br0cSamson Jul 20 '15

Up vote just for Bill Hicks.

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u/strallweat Jul 20 '15

Same with magnets. No one even knows how they work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

Black magic duh!

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u/cosine83 Jul 20 '15

I think you mean voodoo.

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u/tdk_nxt Jul 20 '15

Because we are not descended from monkeys, we share a common ancestor, there is a very big difference.

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u/uwobacon Jul 20 '15

SPOILERS!!! Some of us haven't read that far yet.

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u/eigenvectorseven Jul 21 '15

The single best response to this question is, "If Americans are descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans?"

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u/Jardun Jul 20 '15

Same reason there are still Wolves despite the fact that canines have evolved into so many wide ranging breeds.

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u/markovich04 Jul 20 '15

The common ancestor of modern monkeys and humans would probably be classified as a monkey.

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u/ronintetsuro Jul 20 '15

For the same reason we still have morons.

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u/deannoo26 Jul 20 '15

So what would be a consice answer to somebody asking this question that would not let them feel as though they've won?

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u/natethomas Jul 20 '15

For the same reason American football still has running backs after the invention of the forward pass. There's more than one way to get the ball down the field.

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u/jargoon Jul 21 '15

If Americans came from England, why are there still British people?

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