 Herschel Walker is a candidate for the United States Senate and For those of you who don't know he's a former NFL player a long-time Trump friend and ally and he is the father of Christian Walker He is the conservative Viral star I guess like he does political commentary He complains about gas prices and blames Joe Biden. He was on Hassan stream recently I'm not necessarily too familiar with him, but whenever I see Christian Walker I'm I'm very irritated with what he has to say in his demeanor so This is who we have to thank for Christian Walker because Herschel Walker is his father but Herschel Walker is gonna take us back to the Fedora tipping days where I remember myself debating Christians about evolution and he's gonna ask the age old question with regard to evolution See if you all can guess it before even says it but without further ado. Let's let's listen I'll tell you something else. I heard I think about this because at one time the science said man came from apes Did it know? Every time I read or hear that I think to myself you just didn't read the same Bible. I did well what this was it or We didn't read the Bible at all or we read the Bible and realized how ridiculous it is The Bible literally features talking snakes and talking animals in it. So I for one don't take books like that seriously But nonetheless, I love how he's just so confident. Oh, you must have not read the Bible. Fucking idiot You said though if that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it. You know now you're getting too smart for it. No, no, no You're too you're too smart Herschel if evolution is real then why do we still got monkeys? Yes, the age old question that uh creationist Christians has been have been using as a sort of gotcha Against atheists for ever now again. We're right back to the 2010s where we're all tipping our fedoras dunking on these dipshits But you know, this isn't necessarily a gotcha so much as it is a question that he could easily have googled if he was genuinely curious So because I'm a very kind person. I took the liberty to google this for uh Herschel Walker because it is A question that has an answer to it. Why haven't all primates evolved into humans? So this is uh an article from live science. Grant Currin wrote this. It was published on july 14th in 2019 Uh while we were migrating around the globe Inventing agriculture and visiting the moon chimpanzees our closest living relative stayed in the trees Where they ate fruit and hunted monkeys modern chimps have been around for longer than modern humans have Less than one billion years compared to 300 000 for homo sapiens according to the most recent estimates But we've been on separate evolutionary paths for six or seven million years If we think of chimps as our cousins our last common ancestor is like a great great grandmother With only two living descendants But why did one of her evolutionary offspring go on to accomplish so much more than the other? The reason other primates aren't evolving into humans is that they're doing just fine brianna pobiner A paleo anthropologist at the smithsonian institute in washington dc told live science All primates alive today including mountain gorillas in uganda Howler monkeys in the americas and lemurs in madagascar have proven that they can thrive in their natural habitats Evolution isn't a progression said lin isabel a professor of anthropology at the university of california davis It's about how well organisms fit into their current environments in the eyes of scientists who study evolution Humans aren't more evolved than other primates and we certainly haven't won the so-called evolutionary game while extreme Adaptability lets humans manipulate very different environments to our needs That ability isn't enough to put humans at the top of the evolutionary ladder take for instance ants Ants are as or more successful than we are isabel told live science There are so many more ants in the world than humans and they're well adapted to where they're living While ants haven't developed writing through uh, though they did invent agriculture long before we existed Which is an interesting thought by the way, uh, they're enormously successful insects They just aren't obviously excellent at all of the things humans tend to care about which happens to be the things humans excel at We have this idea of the fittest being the strongest or the fastest But all you really have to do uh to win the evolutionary game is survive And reproduce so there's so many misconceptions about evolution And this this comes to the inevitable inevitable conclusion that okay if so many people don't really understand evolution Uh, maybe we should teach it in school so people understand it, but then that reignites that debate I feel like politics in america is cyclical because we're going right back to the days Where creationists are overtly evangelical. They're not hiding their homophobia and their bigotry Not her shall walk her to be fair because he's not homophobic But i'm saying more broadly speaking we see like uh, you know with the g.o.p. Don't say gay We see what they're doing in texas to trans uh children So it's all cyclical we're back in the 2010s except this time republicans are more insane than they were before And we're having the debates about um Why we still have monkeys so I think that this calls for a return to the days where us atheists had our fedora hats on And we intensely uh tipped it whenever we saw shit like this You know, we jumped at the opportunity to answer these questions because yeah, yeah So, you know, I thought this was interesting. Um, in some ways i'm Irritated by this question by her shall walker But at the same time it's oddly nostalgic for me because it reminds me of an era where Things were just more simple in the united states So even if this is a question that you don't have to ask you could just google it since we all have Phones we all have access to google, right? I mean you could just google the question But still him asking it really invoked That era back in the 2010s when I was so naive I still was a supporter of brock obama I still felt hope for the world and wasn't you know dreading the looming apocalypse It just reminded me of a better time So in a roundabout way, I appreciate this question But don't ask it again because that is a stupid question to her shall so yeah moving on