srmorton: "I heard him say that.
I rarely disagree with Rush, but in this case he was wrong.
The theory of evolution does not claim that man evolved from apes, but that both evolved from a common ancestor which is a very different proposition."
plain talk: "Rush is outstanding when it comes to political analysis.
However he is quite inept when it comes to technical subjects.
It is painful to listen to him say things like this."
I've heard Rush talk about evolution, infrequently and not recently, and not the argument you posted here.
Obviously Rush is sympathetic to creationism, but I've never heard him trash science to get there.
In this particular argument, the answer couldn't be simpler:
Rush is not the only one who makes this mistake! I teach General Biology, among other things, at our local community college. Although I really emphasize in lecture that it is not an accurate statement, you would be surprised at how many of my students pick it in a multiple choice question as the best summary of the theory of evolution.