Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, whi…

Richard Dawkins
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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