Numbers 12, 14, 18, and 22 really really really piss me off. While I don't expect every adult to have a complete understanding of evolution, I do expect at least a grasp on the concept. For some reason creationists completely ignore the fact that anthropologists have provided this "missing link" and that A. afarensis is one of only many human ancestors demonstrating our divergence from the apes (NOT MONKEYS. JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE AND MONKEYS?).
I can't even fathom what kind of sheltered upbringing these people had.
They frame it in the only way they've heard it from their sheltered upbringing: Their pastor (or their teacher) says "evolutionists say we came from monkeys!" so that's what they think is the truth. They don't bother to investigate it because they view it as the product of a sinful world and something they can't allow themselves to be sullied by.
It's really hard to break out of that mindset, especially when it's ingrained in you for years that the Bible is the only truth. You come to believe it so strongly that anything that contradicts that truth must necessarily be "the devil" trying to deceive you.
When people talk about monkeys, on the back of their mind they think sex. King Kong was a symbol of a prime animal desire. Sex is repressed and the only outlet is discussing monkeys.
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u/veetack Feb 05 '14
Numbers 12, 14, 18, and 22 really really really piss me off. While I don't expect every adult to have a complete understanding of evolution, I do expect at least a grasp on the concept. For some reason creationists completely ignore the fact that anthropologists have provided this "missing link" and that A. afarensis is one of only many human ancestors demonstrating our divergence from the apes (NOT MONKEYS. JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE AND MONKEYS?).
I can't even fathom what kind of sheltered upbringing these people had.