{"id":1305,"date":"2012-12-27T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T10:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2012-12-27T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T10:57:01","slug":"i-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"I, Ape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Philip:<\/strong><br \/>\nIs it right to call those who believe they are evolved from apes as Monkey\/ape Richard Dawkins or Monkey\/ape Christopher Hitchens?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nCalling them apes is technically correct, as not only are we evolved from apes but we <em>are<\/em> apes (not monkeys, though &#8211; they&#8217;re only related to us).  I don&#8217;t know about &#8220;right&#8221;; you don&#8217;t normally refer to people as Human Joe Smith, or Human Carly Jensen.  There&#8217;s no reason to add the species to people&#8217;s names unless we&#8217;re all different species.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOf course, we&#8217;re all the same type of creature, whatever it is.  If you call those who accept evolutionary theory apes you&#8217;re calling yourself one as well.  If you believe that you&#8217;re of a special race deliberately created in its present form by God then so are they, no matter what they think.  So if you think calling &#8220;evolutionists&#8221; apes is deservedly derogatory, don&#8217;t bother because it reflects directly on you.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf on the other hand you think that &#8220;evolutionists&#8221; really are a different species, and something less than human, you need to back that up with some evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Philip: Is it right to call those who believe they are evolved from apes as Monkey\/ape Richard Dawkins or Monkey\/ape Christopher Hitchens? Answer by SmartLX: Calling them apes is technically correct, as not only are we evolved from apes but we are apes (not monkeys, though &#8211; they&#8217;re only related to us). I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=1305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I, Ape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,15],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-creationism","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}