This clip is from a traffic camera in Chile — it shows a dog hit by a car, and then another dog risking the heavy traffic to pull the injured animal to the side, out of danger.
I wonder what church the heroic dog attends?
Keep this in mind when you encounter people — yeah, I'm looking at you, Francis Collins — try to argue that morality and altruism and empathy are unique markers of a divine hand in our origin.
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