Evolution mischaracterized
Ken Campbell (“Monkey on many backs” – Aug. 1) should expand his reading horizons beyond The Spokesman-Review. The Airway Heights mayor who compared Michelle and President Obama to monkeys wasn’t the first. The first was a New York gubernatorial candidate in 2012 named Carl Paladino.
It is not scientifically correct to say, with regard to evolution, that “we all came from monkeys.” We did not. We didn’t come from chimpanzees either. We (probably) came from australopithecenes. To subscribe to the theory of evolution does not put us in the same category as that racist mayor of Airway Heights.
Lee Freese
Pullman