Coming from Monkeys, Improving the Mind

"IF HUMANS CAME FROM MONKEYS, monkeys would not exist", said the brilliant and very clever pentecostal - Maybe a bit too brilliant and clever for her own good. Who could fail to agree with sucn profound and obvious realities? Point taken, well put. However...um.....there is just one lttle, teentsy weentsy problem with that line of attack, one lil ole glitch in the proverbial armor. Namely, evolutionary science does not say that human evolved from monkeys. Before you perisn of shock and disappointent at your newly discovered failure to disprove the fundamental tenet of biological science, simply accept this inconvenient for you truth. What evolutiony scienc says, and proves and reproves every living day, is that human being and monkeys evolved simultaneously, for the same primate, a primate kinda like a monkey, kinda like a chimp, kinda like a human, but different from all three, a primate which indeed no longer exists, since they all turned into humans and monkeys. Take heart, oh deeply religious one; at least in spirt, you were correct, but not in fact. And no, what you thought about humans and monkeys and what the actual truth is are not the same thing, in fact, are totally different, as is usually the case when dealing with Pentecotals and reality. At least as disturbing as this evolutionary denial in the face of the obvious is the earnestness with which the religious fanatics disagree with the obvious, the fervor with which they tend to reject evolution by natural selection, and their extreme reluctance, indeed, refusal to accept imporvement in their ideology by accepting proven scientific reality. Most disturbing of all is their unwillingness to change and improve. Indicative of this nightmarish mentality is the popular gospel song "I Shall Nnot Be Moved", inwhich the protagonist is essentially bragging about being narrow minded. My beliefs are like the Rock of Gibraltar. I willl never change, because what I believe no is already perfect, and must not be questioned. A rampaging herd of buffalo couldn't get me to change my religiosity. this kind of intransigence, this degree of intellectual rigidity not only is detremental to human progress and improvement, but is downright frightening, for the popularity of it, ad its impact oh culture everywhere. Goethe said" "The world advances only because of those who oppose it." Agathon said: "Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain". And somebody, maybe Eistetien said, "The diffeence between genius and stupidty is that geniius is somewhat limited." And hell, a whole lot of folks have spoken about the imprortance of having an open mind, willing and ready to learn. They were all correct, and still are.