PZ Meyers links to an interview with Mel Gibson, and calls him a “clueless turd” for this statement:

PLAYBOY: So you can’t accept that we descended from monkeys and apes?

GIBSON: No, I think it’s bullshit. If it isn’t, why are they still around? How come apes aren’t people yet?

Now, before this whole interview blows up in our faces, I have to point out that it’s an unverified transcript. Jim Lippard, who published it on his blog, states: “I haven’t verified it myself, though I’ve found consistent excerpts (though they could all have an identical bogus source).” The edition of Playboy does exist, though. The July 1995 issue has an interview with Mel Gibson, and is for sale online. Anyone willing to fork out ten bucks for a decade old girlie mag and scan the article? You will, of course, be buying it just for the articles…

Update: Jonathan Rowe at Positive Liberty can indeed confirm that Gibson’s statements are accurate, as published by Playboy.

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