Chapter 98 <Where did you get the qualification to be a descendant of a monkey>

The great British biologist Darwin published his masterpiece "The Origin of Species" in 1859, which was a great threat to the religious worldview.From June 28th to 30th, 1860, the Church of England held a conference in Oxford against Darwinism. At this conference Wilberforce, a conceited and eloquent bishop, delivered a tirade attacking the theory of evolution in which he exposed his utter ignorance of Darwin's theory.However, with his eloquence, his words were very pleasant, which caused bursts of laughter from the ladies from time to time.Later Wilberforce left the topic completely and made a malicious mockery of Huxley, the famous British biologist who attended the meeting.

He said: Professor Huxley was sitting next to me, and he wanted to tear me to pieces as soon as I sat down, because according to his belief, he was transformed from a monkey!However, I would like to ask, where did you get the qualification of being a descendant of a monkey?Was it your grandfather's side, or your grandmother's side, who had the relationship with the monkey? Huxley immediately stood up to reply to this shallow and boring slander.He solemnly declares: Darwin's theory is an explanation of the phenomena of natural history, his book is filled with a large number of facts to prove this theory, no other theory provides a better explanation of the origin of species.

Finally, for the sake of the dignity of science, he strikes back as necessary to Wilberforce's personal attacks: I affirm, and I repeat, that I do not feel that I have descended from stooped and mentally underdeveloped animals. Shame; on the contrary, it would be really shameful to say that I originated from those who are conceited to be talented and have a high social status, but who meddle in things of which they are ignorant, and arbitrarily obliterate the truth! Huxley's speech strongly refuted the bishop's nonsense and won warm applause from the audience, but Wilberforce, who was conceited and eloquent, was already speechless.

From a logical point of view, the bishop should have refuted the thesis that humans evolved from apes. Since this thesis itself is correct, he could not refute it.Therefore, he secretly changed the rebuttal topic to that everyone is born of a monkey, and then satirized, sarcastically, and even imposed vile personal attacks on the opponent, resorting to brazen sophistry.