It’s not even obvious today. The strongest argument the creationists use when trying to push back against evolution, which actually works, is basically “do you

It’s not even obvious today. The strongest argument the creationists use when trying to push back against evolution, which actually works, is basically “do you really think your great grandfather was a monkey?”. It takes incredible leaps of imagination to accept that different species had common ancestors and evolved from very different looking species. Even if you do buy evolution it takes many leaps of imagination to propose and accept that not only do reptiles have a common ancestor with each other, and birds have a common ancestor and fish, etc. but all of them also evolved from a common ancestor. And finally even after you accept that, while it wouldn’t take as much of a leap of imagination, it would definitely require fighting millennia of cultural and religious indoctrination to accept the idea that humans were also subject to the same processes as other animals.