Question

"How can anyone seriously believe in evolution? I certainly don’t. How can you take seriously a theory that claims that humans are just monkeys with less hair and bigger brains and that our ancestors were apes?"

Answer 1

Answer:

The statement represents the Straw Man fallacy.

Explanation:

A Straw Man fallacy is a version of an argument that is misrepresented, simplified so that it will be easier to defeat. It replaces or represents whatever actual argument is being made. The Straw Man fallacy in some cases is not provided intentionally. They could also be the result of talking about something with little to no previous knowledge of it.

Thus, as the evolutionary theory does not only proposes that humans come from monkeys with less hair and bigger brains, the statement is oversimplifying the different researches on that topic falling into a Straw Man fallacy.