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This is from a website listing various common Creationist arguments:
Creationist argument:"I’ll believe in evolution when a chimpanzee gives birth to a human."
Response: "That would upend our entire understanding of genetics, and disprove evolution for a couple reasons. For one, we don’t think humans came from chimpanzees; we think that humans and chimpanzees are cousins, so if a bonobo gave birth to a human, that would mean we were really wrong.
This kind of radical change in phenotype, from cognitive ability to physical appearance, is not at all what evolution predicts, especially not in one generation. We absolutely would not expect to see those kinds of changes in one single generation. We would expect a smooth gradient of change in the gene pool over successive generations."
https://emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2...-answered/
Another Creationist on Quora making this argument:
"I have discovered a huge flaw in evolution. Humans give birth to humans, and monkeys give birth to monkeys, so a monkey could never have created a human. To where should I report my discovery so that this incorrect theory can be retracted?"
Creationist argument:"I’ll believe in evolution when a chimpanzee gives birth to a human."
Response: "That would upend our entire understanding of genetics, and disprove evolution for a couple reasons. For one, we don’t think humans came from chimpanzees; we think that humans and chimpanzees are cousins, so if a bonobo gave birth to a human, that would mean we were really wrong.
This kind of radical change in phenotype, from cognitive ability to physical appearance, is not at all what evolution predicts, especially not in one generation. We absolutely would not expect to see those kinds of changes in one single generation. We would expect a smooth gradient of change in the gene pool over successive generations."
https://emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2...-answered/
Another Creationist on Quora making this argument:
"I have discovered a huge flaw in evolution. Humans give birth to humans, and monkeys give birth to monkeys, so a monkey could never have created a human. To where should I report my discovery so that this incorrect theory can be retracted?"
