Humanities & Social Sciences Weekly Update, 11/20/08

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“Funny that [Creationists] are so concerned with a perceived lack of evidence when it comes to evolution, yet completely ambivalent about that complete lack of evidence for, and huge stacks of evidence against, creationism.“

Louis Irving on The root of the problem.

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