(March 9, 2016 at 3:08 am)Mathilda Wrote: Tell him that we evolved from fish.
The whole idea of evolving from monkeys is false in itself because it suggests that this was the starting point as well as making people think of modern day monkeys rather than a common primate ancestor. So telling him that humans, monkeys, apes and everything else also evolved from fish will put the whole process into a larger prospective.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255
Basically don't let him dictate the argument. He's arguing about a definition, i.e. of monkey. What's important is an understanding about how evolution works.
It wasn't really an argument so much as badgering. He just appeared in another conversation I was having and started sending about 10 tweets for my every 1 saying "WE DID TOO EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS-I'M WAITING FOR YOUR SOURCES". Everything I replied with, he pretty much ignored. If it weren't for the fact that I actually wanted to know if I was wrong, I would have just blocked him. In fact, I did mute him for a while and he continued to tweet me for about 15 minutes after I stopped replying.
I finally said that I was talking about extant monkeys and he was like "No one said anything about extant monkeys but you. You said we didn't evolve from monkeys!" So, I read his sources and this thread and admitted that I had learned something, that extinct monkeys were indeed in our ancestry. He stopped replying.
