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To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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