Originally Posted by djplong

This is something that troubles me about the evolution 'debate'.

This past weekend, I took my mom on vacation to Montreal. While driving she said "If evolution is true, how come we still have monkeys?"

She bought into a basic, fundamental misunderstanding of what evolution's record is. It doesn't say we descended from chips or gorillas - it says (as one other poster pointed out) that we and other primates have a common ancestor.

And that's what gets to me - all the misinformation. 30 years ago it was claiming "Ronald Reagan wants to classify ketchup as a vegetable!". People just making (stuff) up! And what's worse, others believing and repeating it!