Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, enc…

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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2009). The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, p.402, Simon and Schuster
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