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
    36·
    3 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.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    244·
    3 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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      3 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.

    • turmacar@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 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.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

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

        • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
          5·
          3 months ago

          Nah, we used to be cat people. None of you remember because you can’t see through time.

          I nearly went off on a Mandela effect rant but that’s going to wait until we get a post from one of those guys.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        I guess he didn’t make it, time travel is dangerous. Even if he succeeded, he probably changed something, and then when he came back, he wasn’t on our timeline anymore anyway.

        • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Well if we go by Dragon Ball Z rules, the change will happen in another timeline, and he’ll come back to this unchanged one.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 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
    7·
    3 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.