{"id":2370,"date":"2014-05-13T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2014-05-15T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T02:44:27","slug":"and-the-rest-you-finally-made-a-monkey-out-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"And The Rest: You Finally Made A Monkey Out Of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/strong>
\nIf we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?<\/p>\n

Answer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nWelcome to And The Rest, a potential new series where visitors and I try our best to create serious, concise, easy-to-understand answers to the most ignorant, misguided rhetorical questions and other hopeless arguments posed by theists who think they’ve got the ultimate trump card.<\/p>\n

When you get one of these it betrays such lack of understanding and willingness to parrot propaganda that you may get angry and refuse to answer it; most of the time this will simply send the message that it works<\/em> as rhetoric. I’d rather work on a library of straightforward answers which can be passed on and spread as wide as the questions themselves, until it’s inconceivable in each case that the question was ever given merit by anyone.<\/p>\n

Right then, the monkey question is the classic example, so here’s my attempt to clear it up as quickly and simply as possible:<\/p>\n

“Because not all the monkeys evolved into humans. Most of them evolved into other kinds of monkeys. They had different offspring like any family does. [Bonus semantics if you’re snarky:] And technically it was apes, not monkeys.”<\/p>\n

Think you can come up with something more elegant? You’re probably right, so have a go in the comments. Otherwise, comment with some other faux “stumpers” we should cover in this series. Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question: If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Answer by SmartLX: Welcome to And The Rest, a potential new series where visitors and I try our best to create serious, concise, easy-to-understand answers to the most ignorant, misguided rhetorical questions and other hopeless arguments posed by theists who think they’ve got the … Continue reading “And The Rest: You Finally Made A Monkey Out Of Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[561,6],"tags":[586,585,22,15,587],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-2","category-text","tag-and-the-rest","tag-bad-arguments","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-why-are-monkeys-still-here"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SelfMonkey-thumb-600x723-131986.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}