Evolving

TRAGICALLY, the covid 19 virus adversely affects animals other than human, for example, in zoos, which, being temporarily closed to people, leaves our precious genetic cousins alone. Their funding source gone, they still must be fed and cared for. We'll find a way. We deprive them of their normal life by placing them in confinement, but, in captivity, we improve on it in certain ways, one of which is by eliminating dangers of the wilderness, like people moving into cities and forsaking their normal lives in roving bands of hunter gatherers. Now, we make do in houses and cities, in front of flat screens. Most amazing is the number of people who have made faces fact to face with chimps and monkeys and gorillas as zoos, without learning anything about them, without even thinking about why it is so alluring to make the faces at each other. The most obvious lesson is that we humans are primates, just like the others, closely related, looking so much alike that the connection is obvious. Equally obvious is that we all got to this point by a long, extended, intricate, sophisticated process, a process which is ongoing, rather than as the result of a sky God scooping up mud and fashioning first a man, then a woman out of the man's mud made rib. Now is as good a time as any for our evangelical Christian conservative republican primate cousins to abandon their varieties of fantasy, to which they heretofore tenaciously cling, varieties of foolishness, including denial of evolution and climate change, and to join modern civilized home sapiens in the twenty first century of scientific reality.They have the potential. They already accept microbiology, the reality of viral infection, and no longer ascribe disease to evil spirits. Many of them admit that humans have walked on the moon, that the Earth is round, and that nuclear physics and other modern sciences actually exists. Their next giant leap forward will come when they stop supporting president Trump, and thus relinquish real evil, and begin to vote for some civilized, decent human being to be president, rather than a barbarian, a known traitor, liar, and criminal. They have the potential to become intelligent, educated, informed people.