If the Mayans are dead, then why does Mel still speak Mayan?

Pharyngula links to a Playboy interview with Mel Gibson, and it has this interesting question:

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?

This gives me the perfect opportunity to ask one of my favorite questions to Mel Gibson: if Protestantism descended from Catholicism, then why are there still Catholics?

The Talk Origins archive treats this claim with a similar lack of seriousness.