…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by o…

Richard Dawkins
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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. ✨ Richard Dawkins (1991). The blind watchmaker
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