They are correct though. There is no evidence that chimps walked out of Africa. For two reasons:

  1. They can’t walk for that length of time because we’re the ones who walk everywhere, they hang out in trees.

  2. No one ever said they did.

I’m wondering if this person has ever even seen a chimp, to be honest.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    4 months ago

    We’ve got sunflowers all over with similar DNA doesn’t mean they somehow blew over. Cranberries of Europe And USA have similar DNA but that doesn’t mean they blew over here.

    Someone should explain how birds work to this guy.

  • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
    30·
    4 months ago

    I do not agree with widely agreed upon, backed by scientists theory that numerous studies and research has proven to be plausible lol

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 months ago

        If they can find one person labeled a scientist that believes the same thing, then “science” believes it too, so I’m not crazy.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
      15·
      4 months ago

      They think scientific advancements are always made by a single person and occur in a vacuum. They learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and equate that to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, but the way they see it Bells science is self evident because well phones work so his science must be right. With more abstract discoveries that don’t produce an object in the physical world they believe they can deny all day.

      It’s really fucking stupid

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
        5·
        4 months ago

        Bell didn’t actually invent it (Elisha Gray did), but that aside, They didn’t work in a vacuum either. The telephone wouldn’t exist without all the discoveries before it. Including the abstract ideas that were necessary for basic electrical devices to be constructed. And Darwin wouldn’t have come up with his theory if it wasn’t for his grandfather Erasmus and Jean-Baptist Lamarck.

        They’re just wrong about how science works period.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    274·
    4 months ago

    Orangutan “getting on boats” to leave Borneo is a hilarious image. Like Douglas Adams without the literacy.

    This individual would make a good scientist. They are curious, require evidence to challenge claims, will investigate the evidence, and struggles to make sense of it. If they were taught how to perform their investigation, what being thorough means, and how to test their wild guesses.

    This poor person could have made breakthroughs in anthropology or archeology in another life.

    • turmacar@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 months ago

      They are a bad scientist.

      They have decided they don’t like a thesis and are looking for reasoning to explain those feelings. What they are not doing is trying to understand the evidence for the thesis. They believe that science is one person saying the viewpoint they already hold is how the thesis they don’t like or understand is ‘disproven’.

      They are not curious for discovery, they are curious how to explain their pre-existing worldview in “science-y words” because they feel unable to reconcile their faith with reason. In another life they would have been the monk writing how the patterning on flowers is proof of Jesus’ suffering.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      4 months ago

      They may believe that the “orangutang” is a smarter primate than them because they don’t even know how to spell its name.

      • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        All things which I don’t know how to spell are smarter than humans.

        Proboscis monkeys are divine beings.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      To be fair, they make great librarians. When they aren’t turning into other objects on the boat from the Lost Continent.

  • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
    21·
    4 months ago

    That account is by the way an extremely racist dog whistle. These accounts are designed to act as entry drugs into hardcore racist “race science” fan fiction.

    If you know you know, if you don’t stay the fuck away and report any that you see

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      9·
      4 months ago

      Yeah I was getting some serious “I ain’t related to some african monkey” vibes from this.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 months ago

    Allow me to counter this person’s idiocy in a way that even they can understand. Ahem.

    Your sister shares DNA with you. You decide to move out and leave for New York. You drive there because that’s the best way to move with all of your stuff, even though you have limited funds and it would be cheaper to leave your stuff behind and fly. The food there uses similar ingredients but that doesn’t mean it flew there either, because it’s far more practical to drive. Currently your parents house is being foreclosed on. Your sister is your smartest relative, but because she’s getting married to another local, your sister isn’t moving to New York.

    My question is this: is there any proof that this guy’s parents aren’t ashamed that he’s an idiot?

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    He’s right, the orangutan is the smartest primate especially compared to him since they can probably spell the name of their own species correctly.