Seed has been running an interview with the British author Will Self whom I first encountered by reading his wonderful Great Apes, the cover of which - a mash-up of a human and ape - is above. Every time I see this picture, I can only think of one person ...
And ironically, Duane Gish says there is no evidence for human evolution.
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I made the same observation in my Amazon.com review of Self's book.
It's quite an enjoyable book, too.
Jim,
heh! So you did. I promise I hadn't seen the review before I started using this in class as a seque into talking about human "kind"!
Hmm...
The guy on the right looks a lot like the late Arthur Jermyn.
A mash-up of ape and different ape
ROTFL!
Gish's toupee certainly does not appear intelligently designed...