Some of the best bad comics are created by people who think they know better because they get their information from a higher, infallible authority. Today’s Not Ha Ha Funny continues looking at Ray Comfort’s ‘The Primates’. The site itself says, “Please send these around the world”.

Don’t mind if I do Ray, don’t mind if I do.

Today’s Comic

The Deconstruction

Here we see a very common misunderstanding of young earth creationists. That is, confusion of relation. If evolution is true, then yes, we are probably related to nuts, or rather related to the plants that produce nuts.

Are we nuts? No.

Are we related to nuts? Yes.

Is it cannibalism to eat something you are related to? Well, if that thing is in the same species, then yes. Being related doesn’t mean one is the same kind. If we look at a basic tree of life, humans and, let’s say, walnut trees diverge at the very base. They don’t have a mind or pain sensors.

An interesting discussion might be how related is too related to morally kill and eat something. I can see an interesting argument for morality based on ability to sense pain, which would make most meat immoral. If those are okay, would it be okay to eat gorillas? Chimps? What if homo erectus was still walking around, or Neanderthal? Where we draw the line and why is an interesting discussion. But of course this is not the place for that discussion. I’m here to mock stupid creationist comics. So…

The Revision

Since Ray and his ilke have no idea that relation is not the same as being, let’s poke fun there.

If humans are all related, then doesn’t that make us all ‘brothers and sisters’?

So your wife is your sister. Leviticus 18:9 says not to have sex with your sister, wether it is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter. We are all children of our father in heaven, so we can extrapolate no one can have sex. Maybe the Shakers were on to something.

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