Oddbean new post about login | logout I think I’m warming to the idea of just calling people who believe in literal, long term, Darwinian evolution , monkey cultists.
You don’t believe in evolution?
I don't.
What specifically do you not find compelling? Not trying to troll - genuinely interested in hearing you out
There's no missing link. DNA studies are ever more conclusively showing through mitochondrial DNA that it is nearly impossible for humans to have evolved from any primate species. Plus that fact that macro-evolution (microbes to man) is very hard to do without at least some kind of outside order being imposed, which I personally find to be less likely than humans just being created as humans from the beginning.
Any resources? Most of what I find points in the opposite direction with respect to the mitochondrial DNA claim.
"Away, therefore, with all the scientific moonshine that would connect men with monkeys; that would have the world believe that humanity, instead of resting on its own characteristic pedestal — gloriously independent -- is a sort of sliding scale, making one extreme brother to the ourangou-tang, and the other to angels, and all the rest intermediates!" ~ Frederick Douglass