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Claim CA640:

Evolution says you are descended from a monkey. Do you want to be descended from a monkey?

Source:

Moon, Rev. Sun Myung. 1976 (7 Mar.). The central figure and the transitional period. http://www.unification.net/1976/760307.html

Response:

  1. What we want does not determine what is. To believe that reality will bend to our wishes is a form of hubris.

  2. What is wrong with being related to a monkey? In Yoruba tradition, it is believed that twins are descended directly from monkeys, and twins are considered good fortune (Courlander 1996, 233-238). Being related to a monkey does not make you a monkey. It does not make you any different from what you are.

References:

  1. Courlander, Harold. 1996. A Treasury of African Folklore, New York: Marlowe & Co.
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