If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of…

Richard Dawkins
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2009). The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, p.85, Simon and Schuster
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