MAYBE THOUGHS. MAYBE NOTS.

“Why do we still have apes if we came from them?”

robot-heart-politics:

motherjones:

Ugggghhhh…

“Why do we still have apes if we came from them?” Wise, a retired educator, said during the interview with the Tampa radio station. “And those are the kind of questions kids need to ask themselves. You know, ‘how did we get here?’ And, you know, there’s more than one theory on this thing. And the theory is evolution, the other one is intelligent design.”

Honestly, I’d just like to see us start teaching evolution in schools. How do I know we aren’t? Because retired educators, along with millions of other Americans, routinely ask the question, “But why are apes still here?!” to disprove evolution, even though there’s long been a scientific answer to this question.

If our science classrooms weren’t already being used as platforms to spread “creation science”/”intelligent design” propaganda, people like Sen. Wise would know how not persuasive this question is in the argument against evolution. It is a great question for a student to ask in their science class, but only if the student in question is actually willing to hear the answer and only if the science teacher is actually interested in giving their student a scientific explanation. I’m willing to put money on it that in many schools in America, neither the student nor the teacher is willing to do either. 

 I’m curious as to know.. what schools don’t teach evolution? I had to learn it in my school. Everyone I know that actually paid attention in my hick school’s biology class is aware that humans didnt evolve from apes.. they evolved from a common ancestor of the apes.

Source: motherjones